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SUMMARY:Poet of the Forest
DESCRIPTION:If there is one literary figure in India who can be described as a ‘Green Poet’\, it is Kuvempu. Describing himself as a ‘poet of the forest’\, he sang\, \n“Green here\, green there\,\nA sea of green everywhere;\nThe poet’s soul turning green\,\nGreen is the blood coursing through his veins.” \nKuvempu\, who was born and brought up in Kuppali\, a remote one-house hamlet near Tirthahalli\, in the Malenadu region\, the land of wooded hills\, amid the Western Ghats\, says: “I am a Malenadiga\, born in the womb of Malenada-amma; I’ve grown up suckling from the breasts of this mother\, and playing on her lap. My love for Malenadu is blind\, passionate. … It is a land of unsurpassed beauty\, animated by thunder and lightning; surrounded by a range of hills and mountains; replete with rows and rows of dense forests; marked by rippling streams; resplendent with treetops lit up by shafts of sunlight and moonbeams; accompanied by a thousand notes from a thousand colourful birds …” \nWhile this passion for nature manifests itself in every genre of his writing – poetry\, plays\, short stories\, and essays\, his fiction em-bodies nature in the most organic\, most complex\, and most complete manner. His novels – Kanuru Haggaditi (1938) and Malegalalli Madumagalu (1967) offer us a rich and organic source of lived experience. Malenadu is not merely a backdrop or locale here\, but an active presence that determines the daily rhythms of its people who have learnt to survive by co-existing with nature. \nKuvempu spoke about his novels as\, “Cosmic vision brooding on local things.”  Does Kuvempu represent nature as a benign and benevolent power\, or does he see nature as a callous\, malevolent force in his narrative? How does Kuvempu imagine the relationship between nature and the predicament of the human world? Having moved away from a biocentric world\, how do we understand Kuvempu’s unshaken faith in nature today? How do we read Kuvempu’s relevance when we are faced with the palpable challenges of climate change? \nAccompanied by excerpts from the recently released audiobook of Bride in the Hills\, the discussion will address these and other important questions. \nThis event is a part of the Environment Day programming at BIC. \nImage Credits\nKuvempu’s home in Kuppali\, Malnad\, surrounded by wooded hills. Photo by Anand Kumar S.\nPortrait of Kuvempu from Wikimedia Commons. \n
URL:https://bangaloreinternationalcentre.org/event/poet-of-the-forest/
LOCATION:Bangalore International Centre\, 7\, 4th Main Road\, Domlur II Stage\, Bangalore\, Karnataka\, 560071\, India
CATEGORIES:Environment,Literature
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