Sunday, May 26, 2013

Hi Indibloggers!



Hi Indibloggers!
Very happy for the Indibloggers Meet here in Chennai.
I am blogging and blogging, all the time engaged in translating Tamil poems to English so that non-Tamils may have a taste of Modern Tamil poetry.
Here are some of my blogs on Tamil Poetry in English.

My  blogs on Tamil Poets (In English)/{ Not a complete list}
    

My obsession to blogging and the  vast numbers of my blogs gave me the name,BlogKing.As a true democrat I refused to accept this title but  I  sincerely accept that I am a Blogaholic.
I am also publishing e-books in Scribd, the world’s largest online library.
You can read as well freely download books authored by me in English and Tamil, research articles by me and some rare documents useful for research scholars shred by me.
Here is the list (Not a complete list)


1)உலகப் பேராசான் மு.வ.
A Critical appreciation of Mu.Va.'s contribution to Tamil

    Published: 12/02/2012
    Embed Reads: 3
    Reads: 875
Public
Pages: 56
Category: Literature

2)LOVE AMERICA-LOVE OBAMA
By MARAIMALAI ILAKKUVANAR Published by the Author in the net For Free Circulation Not for Commercial use 1 Contents 1. My US Visits...

    Published: 11/04/2012
        Reads: 423

3)From Love to Divorce
-A Collection of Free verses by Maraimalai Ilakkuvanar on multivaried subjects.

    Published: 02/18/2013
        Reads: 356
  Pages: 92
Category: Creative Writing


4)Tears are more powerful than bombs
-A Compilation of Free verses in English echoing the plight of Eezham Tamils
 Published: 11/26/2012
    Reads: 339
    Pages: 29
Category: Books - Non-fiction
5)vairamuththu-Tamil
--A Critical appreciation of "Vaigarai Megangal"by Poet Vairamuththu
Reads: 246
Pages: 42
Category: Books - Non-fiction

6) ஆட்சிச் சொற்கோவை
Published: 11/14/2012
        Reads: 245
    Pages: 399
7) Ilakkuvanar centenary special issue
--Poems and essays about Dr.S.Ilakkuvanar.
Published: 11/17/2012
        Reads: 237
    Pages: 20
Category: Creative Writing

8) VOICES OF EMANCIPATION
An introduction of Modern Tamil poets and their content.A literary-sociological approach.
 Published: 11/19/2012
    Reads: 223
Pages: 106
Category: Books - Non-fiction

9)BOOK REVIEW Ancient Tamil Poetry and Poetics: New Perspectives By Dr.P.Marudanayagam, CICT, Chennai-2010 Pages: 298+xviii ISBN: 978-81-908000-1-3 1    Published: 12/12/2012
    Reads: 219
Pages: 25
10) Tamil Sirpi 33
 Published: 01/05/2013
    Reads: 218
Pages: 71
11) Etymological & Comparative Lexicon of the Tamil Language
--A Rare Historical document;a pioneer attempt in the etymaological approach to Tamil.
Published: 03/08/2013
    Reads: 190
Public
Pages: 106
Category: Research



12) Blood and Sweat in a Capsule
- An Introduction to Thamizhanban’s Poems &Translation of Select Poems by MaraimalaiIlakkuvanar
Published: 11/22/2012
        Reads: 186
    Pages: 71
Category: Books - Non-fiction

13) A Recipe for the Literary Pudding
Published: 02/24/2013
        Reads: 186
Public
Pages: 19
Category: Reviews

14) George L1
-George L.Hart---In Defense of Classical Tamil ---Maraimalai Ilakkuvanar
    Published: 03/21/2012
    Reads: 157
    Public
Pages: 13

15) cuudaamani Nigantu
A Dictionary of Tamil language written in verse during the 16th century A.D.
 Published: 03/10/2013
    Reads: 154
    Public
Pages: 57
Category: Research

16) A Cluster of Stars
-Translations of some select modern poems in Tamil
Published: 11/16/2012
    Reads: 143
    Pages: 39
Category: Books - Non-fiction
17) A Poet with a Purpose
--An analysis and appreciation of some select poems of a Tamil poet with English translations.
Published: 11/11/2012
    Reads: 139
    Public
Pages: 21
Category: Books - Non-fiction
18) குலோத்துங்கன் கவிதைகள்
Copyright: Maraimalai Ilakkuvanar Published in the Net for Free Circulation maraimalai@yahoo.com     Published: 12/03/2012
        Reads: 137
Pages: 25

19) centhamizkkavalar ci.Ilakkuvanar
A Compilation of Essays on the Life and Works of Professor C.Ilakkuvanar
Published: 03/18/2013
    Reads: 136
    Pages: 100
Category: Books - Non-fiction

20) Katturaik Kathir
-A Compilation of Essays in Tamil
Published: 03/24/2013
    Reads: 130
    Public
Pages: 26
Category: Books - Non-fiction

21) Iniyavai Narpathu-A Didactic Work in Tamil
  Published: 10/29/2012
    Reads: 105
Public
Pages: 10
Category: None





 22) “An Apostle of Humanism.”
An appreciation of some select poems of Vaa.Mu.Sethuraman,providing English translations.
Published: 11/12/2012
        Reads: 103
Public
Pages: 11
Category: Books - Non-fiction

23) Thaninaayaka atikalar.
-A short biography of Tamil scholar Rev.Xavier Thaninayaka atikaLAr
Published: 11/27/2012
    Reads: 100
    Public
Pages: 9
Category: Books - Non-fiction

24) Vatamalai NikaNtu(A Dictionary in Verse)
It is a Tamil dictionary in verse and belongs to Seventeenth century.
Published: 03/22/2013
     Reads: 97
    Public
Pages: 132
Category: Research
25) Tieken Paper
-Early
Tamil
Poetics
between
Nāyaśāstra
and
Rāgamālā.
 Herman
Tieken
 

    Published: 03/15/2012
    Reads: 96
    Public
Pages: 25
Category: None
26) : Thirukkural in Futuristic Perspective
The relevance of the Ancient scripture for the Modern living.
Published: 11/13/2012
        Reads: 95
    Pages: 15
27) CV Of Maraimalai(Tamil)
Bio-Data of Maraimalai in Tamil
Published: 11/11/2012
        Reads: 92
  28)   THOLKAPPIYAM-Tamil Text with English Transliteration(Diacritical Edition)
 Published: 05/07/2013
        Reads: 90
Pages: 268
Category: Research
29) A Book on Basavanna-Review.(Tamil)
-A review of abook on Basavanna,the Virasaivite saint in Kannada.
Published: 11/28/2012
    Reads: 84
   
30) Queen of Poetry

An appreciation of the poetic works of a Poet from Tamilnadu with some translated versions.

    Published: 11/15/2012
        Reads: 83
Pages: 18
Category: Books - Non-fiction

There are still more 16 e-books, not mentioned here http://www.scribd.com/milakkuvanar to be brief.
Please browse and click the link:  http://www.scribd.com/milakkuvanar
You can read whichever book interests you and have a free download also.
I tender my apology for my absence to the historic meet due to my high blood pleasure and the scorching sun which threatens me.
I wish the meet every suceess and I am sure this will be an added jewel in the crown of our Mother India.Not a flattery but true.



Thursday, March 29, 2012

The Last Button

The Last Button

What would have

The sunken parts of the island


Told the remaining land

Before drowning in the deep sea?

Wedded to the deepness

Will it gain a self-realisation?

. . . . . . . .. . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .

Immerse and dissolve in water?

. . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .

Get lost itself in a pursuit of advaita

And land again?

Here in this shirt

It seems

A time has come for

This only remaining button

-The last button-

To drop down for ever.

I don’t know what the other buttons

Have told this shirt

Before they left. . .

After fondling the cheek

Of the last button

What did the Time

wish to tell the button-hole:

Declaration of freedom?

Puzzle of utter confusion?

If it is possible for me

To loose my shirt and attain nirvana

How is it to confirm

Nirvana?
With its capacity

The button has set free the moments

With their capacity the moments

Have set me free. . .

Unknowingly

Without informing the shirt

The last button has fallen down. .

In the lips of Buddha

Immersed in deep meditation

There flashed a smile. . .

Oh!

Is it the last button of my shirt?


The world as a single coin . . .

The world as a single coin . . .

Forgetting their historical sources

The land,forest,field,

Garden, Estate,Stone,Sand,Mountain

One by one got

Transformed as hot cash.

State, city, village, ward

Street, house, porch

As images of wealth

In exchange bargains.

Mills, Shops, Schools, Colleges

Under calculation and assessment of

Their prices

Lower or Higher.

Nuclear reactors, Ammunition,

Rockets, Machines, Gadgets,

Under the direct command of

Dollars, Euros, Rubles, Dinars, Rupees

In an unquenched thirst for blood

In estimates of corpses.

Sheep, Cattle, Horses,

Chicken, Sparrows, Pigs

And other things like these

Carrying the price-tags in their necks

Suggesting market trends

Alterations and corrections.

Forests of Elephants

Caves of Tigers and Lions

Deer, Rabbits,

Jungles,

Ants,ant-hills,Snakes

Profit motives have captured

All around

Flags of companies

Unfurling and rolling down

Aggressively.

With an artificial heart transplanted

Nature stumbles

In the feeble rhythm of its beating

Time is blinking quiet often.

Mankind, the offspring of

Adam and Eve

Have again become naked

While attempting to cover up

The Nakedness of Money.

Sold by money and

Purchased by money

The commodity, Humanism, is

Out of stock.

After loosing all its life

The world like a tossed coin

Revolves around the sun.

Driven to the edge of existence

Driven to the edge of existence

With much blood-thirst

I find my path in the

Broken pieces of glasses.

The distance which I should traverse

Remains in the hesitations of

The torn-down feet.

My dreams and realizations

sitting before the mirror

Turn their face in the opposite direction

In the private rooms of days

My life which refuses to move up

Murmurs in a tension unspecified

My poem which sees the world

through the eyes of spring

Describes it in words

Anemic and insipid

Which fill up

The mouth of the autumn season.


The Black Frog

The Black Frog

The telephone bell rang up

Intermittently and

All of a sudden

Became breathless.

Still the wind whispers in a low rhythm

In his ears.







Who is on the other side?

Should be a person known already. . .

May be even an unknown person.

May be happy news. .

Achievement of an admission in a school,

Attaining a promotion in career,

About the birth of a child,

Announcing a wedding engagement,

Purchase of a housing plot. .

Otherwise. .

Sad news about a death,

A dismissal order,

A burglary when somebody is out of town,

An elopement of a daughter

The love marriage of a son. . .

This mechanical black frog has

Very many things to tell. . .

By the side of the black frog

He is sitting for more than five minutes

Expecting any kind of news . .

The Tea . . .?

It has become chill. .

Anxious moments

alternatively

Darkness and Light

Gripped the heart

He forgot himself awhile

Inside his own nervous system

Engulfed by tension

he lost himself.

His wife came there

Took the tea

To reheat it

She went inside.

Again rang up the phone

It is the family physician on the other side

“Mariyappan!

Please do not loose heart. .

The thing afflicting your wife is. . . .”

Before he finished the sentence

The black frog again became breathless.

(In the compilation of poems tiled "Intended to tell"


Intended to tell

Intended to tell

What do you intend to utter?

Have your say..

Any urgent message . . .?

Anything important?

Pardon me!

The telephone rings. .

“Hello!

A Poetic symposium?

I can confirm the date only tomorrow.

You want the time. .

Call me back tomorrow night at 7-30”

You came to tell me something

What is it?

Come on! Tell me now!

What can I do for you?

Is the gas cylinder to be supplied?

Is it a time to pay school fees for our kids?

May I know the last day?

Please bear with me

Someone is knocking the door

Oh! Courier post!

Okay! Signed and received.

What did you try to tell me?

Please say it now.

Is your mother sick?

Have we to visit her?

When?

Oh! What’s it?

Our neighbor coming?

“We are on an outing.

Will return after a week.

Have the key of our house

and please take care.

Thank you! Bye!”

The doors closed now!

Oh my dear!

What did you intend to tell me?

My wife is not there.

The emptiness left by her

Alone stood there and told me:

“Nope! Nothing to tell you!”

My note:The poem is from the compilation of Poems titled"Intended to tell"

Here you can see the husband busy with his routine and unable to spend some time with his better-half.The hollowness of metro life,the useless routine carried by the modern man,disintegration of family and the male-centref way of life are mocked by our beloved poet Tamilanban in his poem.

Monday, March 2, 2009