“Nirupama Ravuvinte Kanatha Mazha Nananju Maduthu” What a pity?.  Is it poem or piece of anything? My friend and Master Vidhydharan Sir please give me an umbrella and save me from that “ Kanatha Mazha” . Listen Moncy, I think Vidhydharan master is hailing from your neighborhood Queens –Long Island or from Rock Land County-NY.  One day he is going to show his viswarupam.  He is a kind of guide –preserver and protector of real literary people. Long live Vidhydharan Master.. We have to give him a people’s award. So that he do not have to shop around for an award or influence anybody for award. I am serious. I like his observation, studies and view points

I like the debate triggered by Nirupuma Rao’s poem and the critical attacks by Vidhyadharan .  I am not too much worried about his identity because he has already created an Identity in the e-malyaalee response page.  He is pretty good in bringing the people out of their closet and makes them reveal their true characteristics. 

The original poem written by the poet in English might be better than Malayalam translation. (I have never read the English version). Most of the time, the original work loses its beauty when it is translated into another language and that is what is happened here too.  The translator has to be extraordinarily brilliant in vocabulary (in this case Malayalam) to completely capture the essence of the original poem and convey its message to the readers.  Otherwise this type of peotires is going to be short lived as vidhyadharan suggested.

                English poetry employs five basic rhythms of varying stressed (/) and unstressed (x) syllables. The meters are iambs, trochees, spondees, anapests and dactyls. (You can research on this).  Malayalam poetries have been written for time immemorial by observing ‘vritthm and other disciplines.

My heart leaps up when I behold

A Rainbow in the sky:

So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the man;
And I wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety. (The Rainbow by William Wordsworth is an e.g.)

In this poem, poet has observed metering and riming or a regular correspondence of sounds, especially at the ends of lines.  Malayalam poets have observed this discipline majority of the time and then ransacked by modernists and postmodernists. If the writers observe some discipline in their writing will help the readers to understand what exactly what they are trying to tell to the people.