Sahitya Akademi Awardee
Arundhathi Subramaniam's Poem
When God is a Traveller ( 2014 )
♧ Introduction :-
The " Sahitya Akademi Award "is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 24 major languages, English and 22 listed languages in the Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution recognised by the Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, established in 1954, the award comprises a plaque and a cash prize of rupees 1,00,000. The Award's purpose is to recognize and promote exellence in Indian writing and also acknowledge new trends. The annual process of selecting awardees runs for the proceeding twelve months. The plaque awarded by the Sahitya Akademi was designed by the Indian film maker Satyajit Ray . During the Indo - Pakistan war of 1965, the plaque was substituted with national saving bond.
♧ Brief introduction about Arundhathu Subramaniam :-
She is an Indian poet, writer, critic, curator, translator, journalist writing in English. Arundhathi Subramaniam's volume of poetry, " When God is a Traveller " ( 2014 ) was the season choice of the Poetry Book Society, shortlisted for the T.S Eliot Prize. She is the recipient of various awards and fellowship, including
¤ The inaugural Khushwant Singh Prize
¤ The Raza Award for Poetry
¤ The Zee Women's Award for Literature
¤ The International Piero Bigongiari Prize in Italy
¤ The Mystic Kalinga Award
¤ The Charles Wallace
¤ Visiting Arts and Homi Bhabha Fellowship
Arundhathi has won the Sahitya Akademi Award for " When God is a Traveller. " Let us see the list of her Books and Poetry,
☆ Her Books :-
▪ The Book of Buddha
▪ Sadhguru : More Than a Life and most recently
▪ Adiyogi : The Source of Yoga
▪ Eating God
☆ Her Poetry :-
¤ Reasons for Belonging : Fourteen Contemporary Poets
¤ Sixty Indian Poets
¤ Both Sides of the Sky
¤ We Speak in Changing Languages ( Sahitya Akademi )
¤ Fulcrum No. 4 : An Annual of Poetry and Aesthetics
¤ The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poetry
¤ The Dance of the Peacock : An Anthology of English Poetry from India
¤ Atlas : New Writing
Now let us come to the main point on the analysis of the poem, " When God is a Traveller. "
When God Is a Traveller
Arundhati Subramaniam
(wondering about Kartikeya/ Muruga/ Subramania, my namesake)
Trust the god back from his travels, his voice wholegrain (and chamomile),
his wisdom neem, his peacock, sweaty-plumed, drowsing in the shadows.
Trust him who sits wordless on park benches listening to the cries of children fading into the dusk,
his gaze emptied of vagrancy, his heart of ownership.
Trust him who has seen enough— revolutions, promises, the desperate light of shopping malls, hospital rooms, manifestos, theologies, the iron taste of blood, the great craters in the middle of love.
Trust him who no longer begrudges his brother his prize, his parents their partisanship.
Trust him whose race is run, whose journey remains, who stands fluid-stemmed knowing he is the tree that bears fruit, festive with sun.
Trust him who recognizes you— auspicious, abundant, battle-scarred, alive— and knows from where you come.
Trust the god ready to circle the world all over again this time for no reason at all other than to see it through your eyes.
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