A Generation that grew with Sujatha's writings

I belong to the generation that grew up reading Sujatha's columns, question-answers and articles in tamil weeklies. Recently when I got to watch parts of the Sivaji movie in a taxi from chennai airport to my house, one of the things that stuck me was, how does Sujatha find time to write such lines like, 'singam singalathaan varum', is this the same person penning articles on paasurams, what sense of humour this person should possess and the immense energy and productivity. We grew up reading his detective serial and his science columns. He perhaps can be credited with writing science in tamil for popular media, a job that cartoonist Madhan, who become the next most popular person in Junior Vikatan, follows to date.

I have never met or had an opportunity to meet with him, but, over the last year have seen him often at the RK Salai Saravanabhavan, often there for breakfast. This morning heard his demise and realized that for a generation that grew up reading him this is an end of a memory, of eagerly opening and reading a weekly, I at least no longer do it; of following a story week after week in tamil magazines, I still do it with Kalki's re-prints; It was an era before the on-set of 24x7 television, the tamil serials and the invasion of television as the central stay of every tamil households hall. Was it an age of more time for reading? Don't know.