High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pa. Raghavan, a well known Tamil writer – journalist, winner of the prestigious ‘Bharathiya Basha Parishad Award’ in 2004, is an editor by profession. Raghavan is more popular for his political histories rather than his fiction works. Dollar Desam (Political History of America) and Nilamellam Raththam (History of the Israel – Palestine Conflict) are considered to be the milestones in Tamil non-fiction writing.