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SPECIAL SERIES Balachandran
Chullikkad, 41 THE SPARK When life is a scream speeding between murder and suicide ..." The powerful words nearly moved college students to rebellion in the late '70s. They also catapulted an intense teenager who penned them -- after the death of a friend during the Emergency -- to near cult-status for his generation. With his highly emotive words and fiery style in Malayalam, Balachandran Chullikkad was pure angst. The fire still burns. The angry young man is older, mellower -- but only just -- and writes essays more than poems. These, like his memoirs, are more philosophical, introspective. He talks in terms of a "collapse of grand narratives" about how writers will now find a "culturally more specific idiom in the face of all-consuming globalisation". Meanwhile, the muse lurks. His 18 Poems (1980), one of his five major collections, is on its 12th reprint. The poet plans some "major works" in the near future. Light the fire. -M.G.Radhakrishnan |
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