T. Sivakumar is a literary critic, translator, media and communication expert, and master trainer from Puducherry. He served for 33 years in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting as an Indian Information Service Officer and retired as Deputy Director and Head of News, All India Radio, Puducherry. He has authored the books Body as Screen (Udale Thiraiyaga) and Social Communication (Samugath Thodarpiyal), and has published nearly 50 articles in leading Tamil literary magazines. A regular speaker at national seminars, he has conducted workshops on media literacy, literary criticism, film studies, translation, journalism, and gender equality. His areas of interest include visual communication, photography, feminism, and Siddha medicine