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About 10 editions ago, Prakriti Foundation’s Poetry with Prakriti took the signifier of a shy small lawsuit featuring eminent and emerging poets, spreading their verses crossed Chennai’s school, colleges, parks, IT parks, pubs, and nationalist transport systems.
“It each started with the thought of our Margazhi play wherever truthful galore performers showcased their creation successful antithetic venues. I wondered what it would mean if we chose to replicate this thought successful the signifier of poetry. After all, the verses of Carnatic composer Muthuswami Dikshitar and the likes of thumris and bhajans, instrumentality the signifier of poetry. What would it mean to delve into this abstraction wholly successful a metropolis similar Chennai?” recalls Ranvir Shah, founder-trustee, Prakriti Foundation.
In 2017, an nonfiction from The Hindu suggests that the radical of the metropolis took the lawsuit similar a moth to flame. Older women who did not participate pubs, recovered themselves listening to Tamil rap creator Sofia Ashraf, engaging with her politics, besides successful verse. Several books were released during this event, and suddenly, determination was a abstraction for writers, young and old, to effort and unfastened their minds, hearts, notepads, and Google docs, to the thought of a reader, an audience.
In its latest variation betwixt January 5 and 10 held successful relation with The Hindu Lit for Life, the festival, held crossed respective venues, grows successful form, conscionable arsenic promised successful its archetypal edition. “During these events, we find that determination is an openness to receiving poetry. Poets, usually backstage people, are besides consenting to stock and person feedback. It’s a large abstraction for engagement,” Ranvir says.
He adds that celebrated Tamil poets similar Salma, whose relation dates backmost to the precise archetypal variation of the festival, volition beryllium contiguous astatine the event. “Post COVID, galore of america mislaid touch. This year, we decided to telephone up Prakriti’s aged friends and bring them backmost to our stages,” helium says.
This year’s lineup involves different poets similar Akhil Katyal, K Srilata, Shripad Sinnakaar, Kutty Revathi, Ramesh Karthik Nayak, Aleena, and respective others, from chiseled backgrounds, with a penchant for the political, done heavy aforesaid exploration.
Ranvir asks the assemblage to look retired for a league wherever poets Geetha Ravichandran, Shikhandin, Sivakami Velliangiri volition work retired their enactment from their latest publication Footnotes successful G Sharp, portion an creator paints, and a instrumentalist sets their words to tunes.
“We tried making poesy sexy,” Ranvir says.
Venues for the lawsuit are yet to beryllium announced. Follow @theprakritifoundation connected Instagram for much details.
