Find we a scent of the soil,
The paddy fields
Where the farmers, plowmen and tillers
Work it there,
The golden sheaves of wheat
Glistening into the fields,
The fishers at the nets
Fishing,
The boatmen at the helm
Ferrying with a rudder
A poet of Kerala,
The coconut trees of it
With the sea scapes,
lakes and water bodies,
A poet from Kerala,
A Dravidian,
A Malyali man
K.Satchidanandan.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
His poetry reminds us of Alexander Pushkin and Mayakovsky. and assimilates the features of Namboodiripad and Gandhi to push the cart of poesy, laden with apples as in the apple-cart in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. Bernard Shaw's The Apple Cart can also be added to this list of reading as for an analysis.