Oh! Well written. Bharathiyar and Kannadasan belong to different genres and ages. Though I am an admirer of Kannadasan, he is only next to Bharathiyar .
A very wonderful article on one of the GREATEST POETS IN TAMIL LITERATURE, though most of them were written for the FILMLY WORLD.As you rightly said, the transformation in him from being an atheist or RATIONALIST, was, as I understand, when he was hospitalised with some seriousness illness, and he was persuaded by some very close to him, to pray to MAHAPERIYAVAL, to bring him back to normal health.
Thereafter, it was a period of glorious transformation, and he eventually ended up as a GREAT DEVOTEE OF MAHAPERIYAVAL. Most of his songs, after this shift in his stance, resulted in a peerless POET , ALWAYS PRAISING SOME LORD OR ANOTHER , IN ALL HIS COMPOSITIONS, which are a pure delight to listen to. There are hundreds of songs, most of them sung by SUSHILA OR T.M. SOUNDARARAJAN, in every film, which, I LOVE TO LISTEN FOR THE LITERARY MERIT, THOUGH,I was a SANSKRIT STUDENT, NOT STUDYING ANY TAMIL WRITINGS. The songs in KERNAN, PAVA MANNIPPU etc etc, highlight his HIGHEST INTELLECTUAL BENT OF MIND, THOUGH IT WAS mostly FOR A COMMERCIAL PURPOSE. I am one of his ardent admirers, after his miraculous recovery from his serious illness.
(“I understood dharma intellectually, but failed to live it.”)
Kannadasan did not divorce his wives, did not justify having multiple wives, and did not celebrate it — he treated it as a personal ethical failure and lived with its weight.
Oh! Well written. Bharathiyar and Kannadasan belong to different genres and ages. Though I am an admirer of Kannadasan, he is only next to Bharathiyar .
A very wonderful article on one of the GREATEST POETS IN TAMIL LITERATURE, though most of them were written for the FILMLY WORLD.As you rightly said, the transformation in him from being an atheist or RATIONALIST, was, as I understand, when he was hospitalised with some seriousness illness, and he was persuaded by some very close to him, to pray to MAHAPERIYAVAL, to bring him back to normal health.
Thereafter, it was a period of glorious transformation, and he eventually ended up as a GREAT DEVOTEE OF MAHAPERIYAVAL. Most of his songs, after this shift in his stance, resulted in a peerless POET , ALWAYS PRAISING SOME LORD OR ANOTHER , IN ALL HIS COMPOSITIONS, which are a pure delight to listen to. There are hundreds of songs, most of them sung by SUSHILA OR T.M. SOUNDARARAJAN, in every film, which, I LOVE TO LISTEN FOR THE LITERARY MERIT, THOUGH,I was a SANSKRIT STUDENT, NOT STUDYING ANY TAMIL WRITINGS. The songs in KERNAN, PAVA MANNIPPU etc etc, highlight his HIGHEST INTELLECTUAL BENT OF MIND, THOUGH IT WAS mostly FOR A COMMERCIAL PURPOSE. I am one of his ardent admirers, after his miraculous recovery from his serious illness.
Nice capture of a tamil poet genius.
Apparently Kannadasan had 15 children, 7 each from his first and second wives and 1 from his third wife. He did not divorce any of them.
His own reflections:
“நான் பிறரை ஏமாற்றவில்லை — என்னையே ஏமாற்றிக்கொண்டேன்.”
(“I did not deceive others; I deceived myself.”)
“அறிவால் உணர்ந்த தர்மத்தை
வாழ்க்கையில் நடத்த முடியாதவன் நான்.”
(“I understood dharma intellectually, but failed to live it.”)
Kannadasan did not divorce his wives, did not justify having multiple wives, and did not celebrate it — he treated it as a personal ethical failure and lived with its weight.
Wow. Fascinating! I knew he was much married but didn’t realize his inner conflict with all of it! Thanks for sharing.
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