Krithika

Mathuram Bhoothalingam (pen name Krithika) was a Tamil writer who wrote plays and short stories in Tamil and English. Krithika was born as Mathuram in a Kannada-speaking family in Bombay in 1915. At an early age, she moved to Delhi where she spent a considerable part of her life. She was married to Subrahmanya Bhoothalingam, an ICS officer from Delhi. The couple have a daughter, Mina Swaminathan. Krithika died in 2009 at the age of 93.