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Kunnuvarankottai V. V. Subrahmanyam (1930 – July 2013) was a senior officer of the Indian Police Service. He last served as Principal Home Secretary in the rank of Director General of Police of Andhra Pradesh state.

Early life and career
Subrahmanyam was born in a village near Madurai, Tamil Nadu. He belonged to the 1954 batch of the Indian Police Service in the Andhra Pradesh cadre. His first assignment with the IPS was as assistant superintendent of police in Tenali, Guntur district.

Later career
Subrahmanyam was deputy commissioner of police (law and order) in Hyderabad during the separatist Telangana agitation of 1969. He was later superintendent of police of Vishakhapatnam during the agitation about the establishment of the Vizag steel plant and of the Krishna district during the Jai Andhra agitation in 1972. He held several other posts such as transport commissioner and vice-chairman of the Andhra Pradesh Housing Board and retired in 1988.

Literary career
He was also a writer in English and published many articles and poems.

He wrote two books of poems entitled Ray of Hope and Other Poems and Sunny Reveries. He also published a book of selected newspaper articles called Semitone Select.

He participated in the World Congress of Poets in Bangkok in 1988. His name has been included in the Cambridge Bibliography of English Poets. He was a member of the Hyderabad Poetry Society. His articles on many topics including Indian bureaucracy appeared in leading Indian daily newspapers such as Indian Express, The Hindu, Deccan Chronicle, Andhra Bhoomi, Triveni, and the New Swatantra Times.