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Vishnunarayanan Namboothiri a confluence of traditional and progressive thought
More than a poet, he would be remembered as a teacher, a genuine human being with a progressive outlook and a rare blend of the old and the new.
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Writer M Mukundan presents C V Kunhiraman Literary Award to Vishnunarayanan Namboothiri at latter’s residence. Poet’s wife Savithri looks on | Express (file Pic)
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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: “He remained a restless soul the whole night, immersed in deep thought, calling up people to discuss and writing notes to higher-ups. He was so upset and disturbed,” was how writer and psychologist Dr N Adithi, daughter of Vishnunarayanan Namboothiri, once recalled an eventful night when activist Medha Patkar was leading a Narmada Bachao Andolan protest. His poetic anguish soon came out in verse: Medha Patekar, Iruttilengottu nee pokunnu, Sudhi thaan velli mandaarameh.Namboothiri belonged to that rare genre of
This Celebrated Poet Also Saved the Silent Valley & Turned a Barren Hill Green
While Sugathakumari’s poems initially began as accounts of a tragic quest for love, her work eventually evolved to incorporate feminist responses to increasing social and environmental injustice and disorder.
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In the 1970s, a massive environmental movement was sweeping the nation. The Save Silent Valley campaign was India’s largest environmental debate that decade a call to save the Silent Valley, one of the last undisturbed tracts of the Southern Western Ghats’ mountain rainforests, from being flooded by an imminent hydroelectric project. The Valley is home to rich endemic biodiversity and a few indigenous communities.