At the age of fourteen, he was inspired by Thiruvalluvar's Thirukkural to write a venba compilation of poetry, strictly adhering to the yappu gramma Vairamuthu was born to Ramaswamythevar and Angammal of Mettur in a middle class family. The speeches of Periyar & Anna, the writings of Karunanidhi and the works of eminent poets like Bharathi, Bharathidasan and Kannadasan and the life in the countryside shaped the young poet's thinking. The ambience of the village is said to have inspired him to write poems.According to him, Tamil and Rationalist movements of the sixties stimulated his poetic zeal. When he was four, the village gave way to Vaigai Dam and the family moved to Vadugapatti village, a farming community in Theni near Periyakulam. Vairamuthu was born to Ramaswamythevar and Angammal of Mettur in a middle class family. Besides his poems, many other works of his have also been translated into several languages, such as English, Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali, Russian, and Norwegian. Other languages An anthology of his poems was translated in English, titled A drop in search of the ocean and in Hindi, titled Bindhu Sindhu Ki Our, in 2003. The author was heartbroken when the poverty-stricken farmers who were unable to feed their families due to failure of monsoon, severe drought conditions, debt and despair, committed suicide. This novel is a prophecy on the suicides of farmers five years before it had happened. Moondram Ulagapor (3rd World War) The struggle of the Indian agrarian community due to globalization, liberalisation and global warming is depicted in this novel in the farmer's dialectical language. Poems of Vairamuthu The core of Vairamuthu's poetry portrays his pleading to the human to appreciate nature, pointing to the incredible truth that fire is fire as long as it burns, Earth is Earth as long as it spins and Man is man as long as he struggles.
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