Thought for the day
The real voyage of discovery
consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes - Marcel
Proust
Take home- O N V Kurup – Legendary poet
O. N. V. Kurup (Ottaplavil
Neelakandan Velu Kurup) is a famous Malayalam poet from Kerala, India. He is
acknowledged as one of the greatest living poets in India. O. N. V. Kurup is
also a film lyricist in Malayalam cinema. He received the Padmashri Award of
government of India in 1998. He is also called O. N. V., without the surname.
O. N. V. is known for his leftist leaning. He was the Left Democratic Front (LDF)
candidate in Thiruvananthapuram constituency for the Lok-Sabha elections in
1989, and was the runner-up.
Reacting to his winning the Jnanpith, Kurup
said, “I am writing for better days for humankind. I am still drawing
inspiration for writing from the life of my coastal village. The award is
recognition of the Malayalam language.” Prof. O.N.V.Kurup: A poet, who, with
more than his imaginative skills, created poetic expressions that often dealt
with the very land he belonged to, events, people and situations he experienced.
As a poet, who has made a mark of his own in the
literary world of Kerala as well as outside Kerala, Mr. O.N.V.Kurup’s stature
as a poet of eminence and also as an accomplished academician, made him
associate with many national and international programmes. Some of these were
his visit to USSR as member of an Indian Writers Delegation to participate in
the 150th birth anniversary of Tolstoy, Represented India in the Struga Poetry
Festival, Yugoslavia (1987), Presented poems on Beethoven and Mozart in the
Department of German, Bonn University, Indian delegate to the CISAC World
Conference held in Berlin (1998) and Fellow of the Kerala Sahitya Academy in
1999. Among the responsibilities that came his way so far, he was member of the
Executive Board of the Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi from 1982 to 1986, and
currently serves as the Chairman of Kerala Kalamandalam. The
septuagenarian poet is without doubt the few among his contemporaries, who
continues his poetic pursuits with an undying fervor. And in the process, Mr.
O. N. V. Kurup remains as one of the highly respected and accomplished poets of
modern Kerala.
Wisdom Message
If there is anything sweeter
than all things, more auspicious than all auspicious things, holier than the
holiest, truly, it is the Name of the Lord, or the Lord Himself. Give up the
company of the worldly-minded and seek always the company of the wise and the
good. Take refuge in the Lord, He is the embodiment of Peace. He will reside
constantly in the place where devotees honor His Name sincerely, with devotion
and dedication. Practice intense devotion to the Lord for that is the key to
attaining real and permanent happiness. – Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Picture of the day – Astana, Kazhakhstan
Floral flourishes decorate
Nurzhol Boulevard, or "Radiant Path." [NatGeo]
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