Career
Naa Govindasamy was a lecturer at the National Institute of Education, who worked to develop the Singapore 16 bit Unicode system which uses Tamilnet and Tamilfix fonts and enables a user to input Tamil in all three computer platforms - Windows, Mac and Unix. These fonts enable a user to read emails and web pages in Tamil on a terminal with only a shell accountant He made significant contributions, specifically the creation of several plays, dramas and short stories for radio and television
Among the plays, two proved to be very popular, namely Anbukku Apaal and Alaigal Oyvathillai.
He also published a novelette, Velvi. In 1994, he was awarded the South.E.A. Write Award.
His untimely demise in 1999 is considered a huge loss to the Tamil society in Singapore and around the world.
