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Greetings, Valluvar!
Publisher:
Eka
| Author:
Erode Tamilanban
| Language:
English
| Format:
Paperback
Publisher:
Eka
Author:
Erode Tamilanban
Language:
English
Format:
Paperback
Original price was: ₹499.₹399Current price is: ₹399.
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A COLLECTION OF TWENTY-TWO FREE VERSE POEMS WRITTEN AS AN INNOVATIVE DIALOGUE WITH THE POET AND PHILOSOPHER VALLUVAR, ALSO KNOWN AS TIRUVALLUVAR, GREETINGS, VALLUVAR! WEAVES TAMIL MYTHS, EPIC HISTORY AND SYMBOLISM.
In 2004, the prestigious Sahitya Akademi award for Tamil went to Vanakkam, Valluva!, a collection of twenty-two free-verse poems by Erode Tamilanban, which solidified Tamilanban’s status as a leading voice in modern Tamil poetry. Greetings, Valluvar! brings for the English readers this much celebrated work.
The poems are written as an innovative dialogue with the poet and philosopher Valluvar, also known as Tiruvalluvar, whose canonical text Tirukkural, comprising 1,330 couplets, reflects the objectives of human life virtue (dharma), wealth (artha) and love (kama), ultimately leading to moksha or spiritual liberation and is known for its universality and secular nature. In Greetings, Valluvar!, Erode Tamilanban weaves Tamil myths, epic history and symbolism, not merely to echo Valluvar’s values of universality and secular nature, but to use them as a bridge to demonstrate their enduring relevance.
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A COLLECTION OF TWENTY-TWO FREE VERSE POEMS WRITTEN AS AN INNOVATIVE DIALOGUE WITH THE POET AND PHILOSOPHER VALLUVAR, ALSO KNOWN AS TIRUVALLUVAR, GREETINGS, VALLUVAR! WEAVES TAMIL MYTHS, EPIC HISTORY AND SYMBOLISM.
In 2004, the prestigious Sahitya Akademi award for Tamil went to Vanakkam, Valluva!, a collection of twenty-two free-verse poems by Erode Tamilanban, which solidified Tamilanban’s status as a leading voice in modern Tamil poetry. Greetings, Valluvar! brings for the English readers this much celebrated work.
The poems are written as an innovative dialogue with the poet and philosopher Valluvar, also known as Tiruvalluvar, whose canonical text Tirukkural, comprising 1,330 couplets, reflects the objectives of human life virtue (dharma), wealth (artha) and love (kama), ultimately leading to moksha or spiritual liberation and is known for its universality and secular nature. In Greetings, Valluvar!, Erode Tamilanban weaves Tamil myths, epic history and symbolism, not merely to echo Valluvar’s values of universality and secular nature, but to use them as a bridge to demonstrate their enduring relevance.
About Author
Erode Tamilanban, who retired as Professor of Tamil, New College, Chennai, has been writing poems since the age of twelve, and continues to do so today at the age of ninety-one. His first work, Koti Katta Kumaran, appeared in 1968, since when he has published ninety-one anthologies of his poems, many of which have been translated into other languages, including English, Spanish and Hindi. He has won a number of awards and honours at the international, national and state levels. His Vanakkam, Valluva! earned him the coveted Sahitya Akademi Award in 2004 and the Kalaignar M. Karunanidhi Classical Tamil Award of the Central Institute of Classical Tamil for 2018.
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