Annamalai Reddiyar is identified in the consulted biographical reference as a Tamil poet and composer remembered particularly for Kavadi Chindu. His inclusion broadens the library from literary reading alone to the forms through which devotees also sing and remember.
The kavadi tradition supplies an important devotional setting, but the composer’s work should still be examined song by song. Not every song heard during a kavadi journey belongs to the same author. A familiar melody is also not enough, by itself, to establish who wrote the words.