When God is a Traveller

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Here in this blog I am talking about the author who won the Sahitya akademi award 2021. The name of the author is Arundhati Subramaniam. The work is "When God is a Traveller" got the Sahitya Akademi 2021 award in English Language. This blog is my academic task is given by Dilip barad sir from Department of English Bhavnagar University.  

Arundhathi Subramaniam is an Indian poet, writer, critic, curator, translator, Journalist, writing in English. Arundhati Subramaniam won the award for her poetry collection ‘When God is a Traveller’ in English. Poet Arundhathi Subramaniam is among the 20 writers to receive the Sahitya Akademi Award for 2020, reported PTI. The National Academy of Letters announced the names on Friday at its annual ‘’Festival of Letters’’ event. 

Award :- Khushwant singh memorial prize for poetry on 25 January 2015, Arundhathi won the first Khushwant singh memorial prize for poetry for her work when God is a Traveller.

 

Poetry Collection 

1) love without a story 

2) when God is a Traveller 

3) when I live : new & selected poems

4) where I Live

5) on cleaning Bookshelves. 

Prose

1) Sadhguru

2) The Book of Buddha

When God is a Traveller

The given below poem is a titular poem from the collection.

When God Is a Traveller

                   -Arundhati Subramaniam

 (wondering about Kartikeya/ Muruga/ Subramanian, my namesake)

 Trust the god back from his travels, his voice wholegrain (and chamomile), 

his wisdom neem, his , sweaty-plumed, drowsing in the shadows.

 Trust him who sits wordless on park benches listening to the cries of children fading into the dusk, 

his gaze emptied of vagrancy, his heart of ownership.

Trust him who has seen enough— revolutions, promises, the desperate light of shopping malls, hospital rooms, manifestos, theologies, the iron taste of blood, the great craters in the middle of love. 

Trust him who no longer begrudges his brother his prize, his parents their partisanship. 

Trust him whose race is run, whose journey remains, who stands fluid-stemmed knowing he is the tree that bears fruit, festive with sun.

Trust him who recognizes you— auspiciousness, abundant, battle-scarred, alive— and knows from where you come. 

Trust the god ready to circle the world all over again this time for no reason at all other than to see it through your eyes.

When God Is a Traveller 

In this Poem when God travels often focuses on the minute details of everyday life, but also sees in those details, the hints of Godhead, an Uber-reality. If we want to talk about the title of the poem. Then Perhaps the title of the poetry collection " When God is a Traveller" suggests the god kartikeya. Because in the first line of the poem we come to know that trust the god back from his travel. If we know about the journey of kartikeya then and then we come to know the context of the poem. When I asked the poet, "If I were to call you the Mira of the modern age, would I be an ignorant follower of Prapancha Krishna?" He laughed, not annoyed, but pointed out that his poems also mention Shiva, Kartikeya, and others. He was also known as Murugan, Subramanian, Skanda and Kumara. He is the Hindi god of war. He was the brother of the god Ganesha. And son of Shiva and Parvati.