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Wednesday, September 25, 2019

KOSINRA's POEM



A POEM BY 
KOSINRA: 
 
Translated by Latha Ramakrishnan

POETRY


Wherever a human is burnt as a heinous 
social malady,
Wherever lovers are separated in casteist fanaticism,
Wherever a human life withers due to callous indifference
of the powers-that-be,
Wherever a gruesome act is staged  as a blatant violation,
Wherever a fraud takes place in the name of god,
wherever a country forces war  onto another land,
wherever the country’s wealth is swindled and looted
by another nation,
wherever terrorism sprouts in the lands of religion,
wherever extremism kills people,
there, a voice  of protest
would rise on its own.
From that very first alphabet of that cry
springs my poem.


{His original name is G.Rajendran. he has been contributing to Tamil Literary field for more than fifteen years in the capacity of  a poet endowed with a deep sense of social consciousness and a rich poetic style. His poems are comments on the contemporary society with its ever increasing disparities between the haves and have-nots and also a search for viewing the ‘big picture’ of life with its millions of unravelled secrets.

So far two poem-collections of his have come under the titles, EN KADAVULUM ENNAI POLAVE KARUPPU (My god is also black like me) and POONAIYIN KADAVULL ( The God of Cats).}

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