Prayers To Lord Murugan tells of the seating of the Dravidian God, Murugan, the God of the Tamil people the supreme presiding deity in the pantheon of gods and goddesses. The poet says the prayers in a personal way struck with mythology as well as disheartened with too as for who's who of and how it can be the generic mythological stride and glance, leading to nowhere, keeping us nonplussed.
But taking it for, let us look the bliss and bounty it bestows upon, the mental and spiritual it gives. The temples attributed to him tell of the faith and belief sustained by down the ages and the folks holding in utter admiration taking it to the overseas too. In the north too he is worshipped by Kartikeya name, but the fanfare seen in the south seems to be missing it here as is Vinayaka in Maharashtra.
But to break the mythic ice, the personal space of Ramanujan is difficult, what does he mean to say it, relay by the lines which he puts so ironically with turns and twists?
In Prayers to Lord Murugan, the poet tries to grapple with myth and mythology, art and architecture, faith and belief, holding with so much in strict confidence and contradiction as well, seeking for bounty and blessing as well as with a strange questioning of all these.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem