Comments on: Mr. Subramanian: Vivek Narayanan http://pratilipi.in/2009/10/mr-subramanian-vivek-narayanan/ A Bilingual, Bimonthly Magazine / द्विभाषी, द्विमासिक पत्रिका Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:28:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mani Rao http://pratilipi.in/2009/10/mr-subramanian-vivek-narayanan/#comment-1779 Mani Rao Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:13:46 +0000 http://pratilipi.in/?p=4540#comment-1779 The tide goes forth and back, dogged howl bark howl. Often, the reader led and then corrected, a space opened and then occupied. The move from the present to the past in the first stanza almost unnoticeable, hanging on the double-tense 'cut'. And the hanging comma of the first stanza set up as though gimmick, but quickly asserted in the second stanza's shorts. Syllabic details orchestrate the tide, cussed to curséd back to cussed. The last stanza's rhetoric, and fixed adjectives suit the "pathetic silly self-flagellating" Subramanium, and the last lines bang out the bathos, o.k. because persona. "Yanking the thread" is thought and action, the shebang unravels, but doesn't; in Mr Subramaniam's novel (cult-epic for this is a hero, he has limbs), will Mr S "give it up, relax"... ? ...telematic cliffhanger. The tide goes forth and back, dogged howl bark howl. Often, the reader led and then corrected, a space opened and then occupied. The move from the present to the past in the first stanza almost unnoticeable, hanging on the double-tense ‘cut’. And the hanging comma of the first stanza set up as though gimmick, but quickly asserted in the second stanza’s shorts. Syllabic details orchestrate the tide, cussed to curséd back to cussed. The last stanza’s rhetoric, and fixed adjectives suit the “pathetic silly self-flagellating” Subramanium, and the last lines bang out the bathos, o.k. because persona. “Yanking the thread” is thought and action, the shebang unravels, but doesn’t; in Mr Subramaniam’s novel (cult-epic for this is a hero, he has limbs), will Mr S “give it up, relax”… ? …telematic cliffhanger.

]]> By: Falstaff http://pratilipi.in/2009/10/mr-subramanian-vivek-narayanan/#comment-1540 Falstaff Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:26:48 +0000 http://pratilipi.in/?p=4540#comment-1540 Lovely. That first stanza is truly stunning. Oh, and I take it when the "older boys / gamble over games in the street" the die is caste? Lovely. That first stanza is truly stunning.

Oh, and I take it when the “older boys / gamble over games in the street” the die is caste?

]]> By: K.Satchidanandan http://pratilipi.in/2009/10/mr-subramanian-vivek-narayanan/#comment-1535 K.Satchidanandan Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:22:19 +0000 http://pratilipi.in/?p=4540#comment-1535 Dear Vivek, I love the whole series for its quaint irony, its word-music, its implicit locale and nuanced cultural references. Loved the music, reading it aloud.. Dear Vivek, I love the whole series for its quaint irony, its word-music, its implicit locale and nuanced cultural references. Loved the music, reading it aloud..

]]> By: Sumana Roy http://pratilipi.in/2009/10/mr-subramanian-vivek-narayanan/#comment-1524 Sumana Roy Sun, 11 Oct 2009 08:15:48 +0000 http://pratilipi.in/?p=4540#comment-1524 "Coast", "Cast", "Caste", "Cussed"; "Coarse", "Corset", "Cross" ... and the polysyllabic inner rhymes ... I'd love to hear you 'recite' this poem. This is a poem meant to be 'memorised'. Thanks. “Coast”, “Cast”, “Caste”, “Cussed”; “Coarse”, “Corset”, “Cross” … and the polysyllabic inner rhymes … I’d love to hear you ‘recite’ this poem. This is a poem meant to be ‘memorised’. Thanks.

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