I went to Chennai during the week of Diwali (26. 11. 2011) to celebrate with my parents. It was quite nice because I celebrated Diwali with my parents after nine years.
After Diwali, I went to Vanathi Pathippakam in Pondy Bazaar and picked up a book called VANAVASAM written by Kaviyarasu Kannadasan.
I finished reading the book couple of days back.
This book was written in the year 1962 after the poet quitted his political life. Usually vanavasam means a very hard life (similar to life in the forest) as it normally refers to Pandavas' 13 year vanavasam or Lord Rama's 14 years vanavasam. In his case, it was 10 year vanavasam.
His political career was just an accident after he was influenced by DMK leader Anna Durai's speech against brahminism. After many struggles, he realized that political life was not for him and this ended his vanavasam.
This book is not much interesting to me like his other books such as Arthamulla Indumatham (10 volumes).
But, there are few statements I would like to remember from this book:
- When suffering people come together, they become friends.
- When greedy people come together, they become enemies.
- Goalless and unplanned life will not take us anywhere.
- Unidentified people live peacefully when compared to identified people. Here, he refers to kind of popularity as identification.
