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Society lacks poetic culture: Azhikode

By Our Staff Reporter

THRISSUR, JAN. 18. The noted social and literary critic, Sukumar Azhikode, has said that lack of a poetic culture was the bane of contemporary society. Speaking at the Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon remembrance meeting here today, Prof. Azhikode said that after the late Jawaharlal Nehru none of the Prime Ministers of Independent India possessed such a culture. Narrating a couple of incidents to demonstrate Nehru's refined consciousness, Prof. Azhikode said that when somebody came up with a proposal to make a documentary on river Ganga, Nehru's response was that "It (the Ganges) was a flowing history.''

Paying rich tributes to the contributions of the late poet, Prof. Azhikode said that it was from the ordinary life of shadows and darkness that Vyloppilli produced remarkable poems. Great poets produce poetries that are more exquisite than their lives, and the late Vyloppilli belonged to that section.

"His poetic sojourn must have stirred up jealousy even among the mightiest of Garudas, because the trip covered almost all parts of earth, including deserts, mountains, seas, continents and the universe as a whole. He was a `Viswathomukha' in terms of poetic imagination as he reached wherever the slightest trace of universe extended."

Prof. Azhikode, who is also the chief of the Vyloppilli Memorial Committee, presented the Vyloppilli award to the young poet, Madhu Alappadappu.

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