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Madduvil Gnanakumaran's poems

Madduvil is a place in the Yaalpaanam (Jaffna) peninsula in the North. A youngster from this area has been writing poems in Tamil for more than 10 years but many had had no opportunity to read them because he had not brought them in book form. However two books have been already published in recent time. This is the third one. This collection is called "Siraku Mulaiththa Theeyaaka..." (Like Fire with a Wing). This poet named Gnanakumaran was away in Germany for a long period of time and has come back to his motherland having qualified in the German language and presently teaches that tongue. He also interests himself in making short films. He has contacts with some of the writers in Tamil Nadu.

In the collection mentioned there are a number of poems with a few illustrations. Some of the poems are his attempts to write poetry, while a few others underline humanism as his motif.

With his present maturity he could shine as a notable poet with a strong sense of a vision and philosophy.

This columnist chose to attempt a translation of five of his poems he liked over the others.

Here are a few that you may find as examples of the type of poetry written in Tamil in this country:

Madduvil Gnanakumran's poems speak of pain that confronts his community and the displacement of a once reckoned race, of poverty, of hypocrisy among his own people, of motherly love and false values.

One could suggest to him to be a little more concise in his expressions and bringing in more of his experiences in foreign climes that might have been more interesting to local readers. He has a poetic mind and an 'inner eye' but he is merely satisfied with simply narrating tings but with occasional satire.

He could write better if he could lay his hands on reading better poetry written by Lankan poets in Thamil.

One could not blame him for this lacking as he has returned after a long stay in the west where access to reading such material was none.

However one should congratulate him for his sincerity in rendering into words of what he felt as important to him. The book is published by Gayathri Publication in Dehiwela (Phone: 011-2727621)

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