LITERATURE (Page 3)

സ്വതന്ത്ര വിവർത്തനം: സന്ന്യാസു പൊടിമഞ്ഞ് ആ വിഷവൃക്ഷത്തിലെകാക്കയിരുത്തത്തിൽഎന്നിലേക്കുകുടഞ്ഞുവീണ പൊടിമഞ്ഞ്എനിക്കു വെച്ചുനീട്ടിയത്,കരഞ്ഞു പിഴിഞ്ഞു തീരേണ്ടിയിരുന്നഈ ദിനത്തിന്റെഇനിയുള്ള നേരത്തിനൊരുപുതുജീവൻ. മൂല കവിത : Dust of snow by Robert Frost The way a crowShook down on meThe dust of snowFrom a hemlock tree Has given my heartA change of moodAnd saved some partOf a day I had rued.Continue Reading

In Kallupuzha, a village that appears on Google Maps only if you zoom in with suspicion, Maya began expanding her consciousness the week the mosquitoes became unionized. She was thirty eight. Separated, not divorced, because divorce is paperwork but separation is performance art. Her partner who now sold organic jackfruitContinue Reading

Leaning against the wallJawaharlal sat, gazingat the lifeless body before him. Manu had set right the displaced glasses,to a perfection,that face hadn’t in life. Outside, slogans soared, mostly that‘Gandhi is immortal’.For the dead Gandhitreatment through language. That dead body seemedlike a morsel of bread, left overby a sated someone. WhoContinue Reading

Why was I madea synonym of perfidy? –Chandrika asked.River didn’t reply.Instead, stopping its flow,showed her in ither lovely face.That face came and hit herlike a lightning bolt.She fell, mumbling –Cheat! Again, you tricked me. Couldn’t you’ve spared my life? –From another ghat,Ramanan asked.River,without speakingbegan to flow fast.Once more he felttheContinue Reading

Poem translation by Manoharan V PAs we went down for a bathin the dark, murky watersat the ghat, where the canaljoined the river, Do you remember seeingtwo mates on the shoresitting under a coconut treebusy building a boat? There, the cascading waters’frothing speed …. here,the shadow of canal shutteron gloomyContinue Reading