Rajkumar is just a little brown sparrow who witnesses all this and sings about it. This helpless ashen god will have to be rescued by an untouchable, an aboriginal devotee, by a man – Kannappan – who sings beautiful and powerful poems to this injured, weeping, inconsolable Siva. A grief-dazed god, whose love has been brutally murdered. A Siva who sits weeping by the pavement having lost everything. In the second poem, Rajukumar introduces to us an Ardhanariswara Siva who has been sundered from his beloved, his literal other half, his other self, Maari. His poems blaze like stars that remind us that other worlds are possible – that otherworldliness has to be made real. Rajkumar is a rare poet who is able to look at the present unfolding before us with a keen awareness of history and mythology, while he offers us visions of possible futures. That had bulged out and fallen in all the weeping Spirits I shall bring alive with my incantations Infusing into it the spirits of those killed before time, Savours the meat, blowing air through their lipsĪ nation where the milk-giving breasts of mothers Son, that is not a country fit for humansĪ nation that slices the middle daughter’s Rajkumar’s poems remind us of the violence of transgressive love, especially in Dalit communities.
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