The irony of fate brings quite an unexpected end of the Maharaja. But the hundredth tiger eluded him till his death.

All his strategies and wise plans worked till he killed 99 tigers. His campaign of tiger-hunting was very successful. The King tried his best to belie the prediction. The chief astrologer had predicted that the cause of his death would be a tiger. The Maharaja of Pratibandapuram tried to belie what was written in his fate. They flouted all laws and bent them to suit their selfish interests. Most of the time the rulers were not interested in serving the people and working for the welfare of the public instead they spent their time in foolish pursuits. These kings lived under the thumb rule of British, hence they fear them. The writer takes us to the days of autocratic and eccentric kings. The story ‘The Tiger King’ is a satire on the pride and stubbornness of those in power.

Krishnamurthy began his primary education in his village school and later attended Municipal High School in Mayavaram but quit in 1921 for joining Gandhiji’s call for non-co-operation. Krishnamurthy’s father was Ramaswamy Aiyar, a poor accountant in Puttamangalam village in the old Tanjor district of erstwhile Madras Presidency. His writings includes over 120 short stories, 10 novelettes, 5 novels, 3 historical romances, editorial and political writings and hundreds of film and music reviews. He derived his pen name Kalki from the suffixes of his wife name Kalyani and his name Krishnamurthy. He was better known by his pen name Kalki. The Author Ramaswamy Aiyer Krishnamurthy was a Tamil writer, journalist, poet, critic and Indian independence activist.

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