89-YEAR-OLD RETIRED TEACHER TRANSLATES KAMBAR’S RAMAYANA
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| K.Sreedharan Nair, Sakthi Nikethan, Panikker’s Lane, Sasthamangalam, Thiruvananthapuram. |
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Reinterpreting the 6 cantos and 12000 verses long Kambar’s Ramayana in Malayalam is the penance-like task being undertaken by the retired teacher K.Sreedharan Nair, Sakthi Nikethan, Panikker’s Lane, Sasthamangalam, Thiruvananthapuram.
89-year-old
Sreedharan Nair has almost completed the task of clothing in Malayalam the
epic of the poet-saint. In the introduction he mentions the key differences between
Kambar’s and Valmiki’s epics as well as a life sketch of the author.
According
to him the earlier prose translations of the epic do not do justice to the
original. Some of them are
even based on hearsay.
Sreedharan
Nair is in the process of setting up a ‘Kambar National Foundation’ in
Thiruvananthapuram. His
effort of translation was recently appraised and appreciated by a learned
gathering.
Courtesy: Mathrubhumi, May 3, 2002
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