


For more than 30 years now, since the 80s I have been associated with the field of Neo-Thamizh Poetry and I can say with conviction that Poet Brammarajan is a pioneer in this realm, in more than one way. Form-wise and content-wise he has experimented a lot in this area. Anyone who objectively writes the history of the History of Neo-Thamizh Poetry cannot but mention Poet Brammarajan as a name to reckon with in this realm. Though I cannot claim to have understood the full texts and sub-texts of all his poems and the myriad lanes and by-lanes of the inner world through which the Poet's mind and imagination choose to undertake a lone, wholesome voyage, the Style and Content of his poems have given me lot of new openings and poignant moments. Latha Ramakrishnan.
Peguy: "There is even a Poetry which draws its brilliance from the absence of God, which aims at no salvation, which relies on nothing but itself, a human effort, rewarded on this Earth, to fill the void of Space” – Albert Camus’s Entry in his Note-Book IV.
“I took everything as seriously as if I were Immortal” - The Will / Jean Paul Sartre.
These two ‘quotable quotes’ that we find in Arindha Nirandharam [The Known Eternity], the first poem-collection of Brammarajan, a pioneer in Neo-Thamizh Poetry appeared in 1980, convey, in a sense, the very essence of his Poesy. A retired English Professor, born in 1953[bio-data given in box] he has six poem-collections and also several books on Poetry and its various aspects, to his credit, apart from a sizeable number of translated works. Right from his first collection of poems he has been writing poems in rich, experimental styles, consciously and steadfastly adhering to post-modern forms of contemporary poetry.
Writing mostly ‘open-ended’ poems he has a firm grip over the language concerned and has an unwavering conviction of What, How and Why Poetry should be. A multi-faceted personality he is, his varied interests ranging from Literature to gardening, from Music to Atoms, Travel, Painting, Books, nature Science and Technology, Mythology and a lot more and all these find a significant place in his poems, forming the inter-textual components of his poetry and give it a splendid neo-poetic form and content. Further, one can hear the voice of a rebel too, not in the direct, political sense, but in a more subtle and psychological sense, defying the Order of the Day, so to say, whereby the mediocre becomes the monarch.