A poetic tribute to Mohamul heroine Yamuna

Yamuna Vaazhntha Veedu, Thukkampalayam Theru, Kumbakonam is an antithetic rubric for a poesy collection. Poet Manushyaputhiran, the writer of the collection, says that a quality study published successful The Hindu was the inspiration for 1 of his poems, which aboriginal became the rubric of the postulation published arsenic a book.

Yamuna is the heroine of the caller Mohamul, penned by T. Janakiraman. The quality was based connected a pistillate who lived connected Thukkampalayam Theru (street) successful Kumbakonam. Fans of Mohamul person been visiting the thoroughfare to drawback a glimpse of the location – which inactive stands, albeit successful a dilapidated information – wherever their favourite fictional (and real) quality erstwhile lived.

“Yamuna is an indestructible imagination of generations, and determination are galore stories astir her. The photograph of the location published successful The Hindu disturbed me. It somewhat damaged the representation of the heroine of the epic,” writes Manushyaputhiran successful his preface to the book. The postulation was released by DMK MP Tamizhachi Thangapandian astatine the Chennai Book Fair. It was 1 of 5 books by Manushyaputhiran released connected that day, on with his archetypal novel, Oru Naal Vasantham.

Manushyaputhiran says that this acquisition could hap to anyone who goes successful hunt of immoderate Yamuna, due to the fact that the characters yet unrecorded lone successful quality hearts. “If we spell successful hunt of them, we whitethorn brushwood lone haunted, derelict houses. It is amended to pain the bridges that nexus america to the house. In the poem, I person written astir modern-day Yamunas. Their beingness stories whitethorn change, but the nonaccomplishment they origin successful Babus (the leader of the novel) ne'er changes. Yamunas either permission the imagination location connected their ain oregon are evicted,” writes the author.

In the poem, helium says that it is lone the Babus who spell successful hunt of Yamunas. “No communicative has been written astir Yamunas’ hunt for Babus. Yamunas, surviving without memories, stay permanently wrong us,” the poem reads.