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.
Fr. A Adappur makes an emphatic point | Photo: P Krishnapradeep
Kozhikode: It was through these wide portals that the now sagely, then a 19-year-old novice strode into the celestial realm of ecclesiastical knowledge. Father Abraham Adappur is back now in Christ hall, Malapparamba, which was his first station in the month of June, 1944, on the road to becoming a Jesuit priest. Today is his first Christmas in Kozhikode, as he completes one year of his return to the city.
Despite enjoying pastoral tenures in Rome and Kochi, this City of Truth was always a luminous blossom like the lights of Christmas in his heart. It was this affinity that made him leave Lumen Jyothis Jesuit House, Kochi, for Kozhikode as the shadows of life began to lengthen.
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Sugathakumari The poet of silent valleys and silenced voices
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Sugathakumari stood for nature conservation and the cause of the downtrodden through her poetry and her presence
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Sugathakumari stood for nature conservation and the cause of the downtrodden through her poetry and her presence
When a young Sugathakumari began writing poetry in the early 1950s, she chose to hide herself behind a pseudonym, until she was discovered by poet N.V. Krishna Warrier. But in the decades that followed, until her passing away at the age of 86 on Wednesday, she lived a life much more public than most other poets of her generation, being in the forefront of many an environmental and social movement, with her poetry and her presence.