Pranayam - Limited Version

Title: Pranayam – Limited Version
Genre: Flipbook of Pictures, Poems in Malayalam with Translation in English
Poet: Jayarsree T.
Translator: Sujatha Warrier
Photographers: Basanth Peringode, Manikantan Mundakkal, Poornima G.,
                             Riya Anes, Sudevan, Zakariya, and Jayasree T.
Publisher: Writers International Edition
Bookstore: Google Books

Excerpt from the Foreword by Shreekumar Varma

Translators usually tread a tightrope. There is a tendency to either stay safe, or push ahead, and often venture away from the original markers. Here, in this encompassing volume, Malayalam words, even when they seem uniquely untranslatable, are rendered into English with an independence, even whimsicality, that startles at times (as in the case of “Thiruvathira”), but always remaining loyal and pristine, always embracing the sensibility of the original. This allows poet and translator to stand up as twin towers, as one voice, and unique at the same time.

Excerpt from the Foreword by Kavitha Balakrishnan

ഇവിടെ ഒരു മനസ്സ്. അത് ഏറ്റവും പരിമിതമായ കരുക്കൾ ഉപയോഗിച്ച് സ്വയം ആവിഷ്‌ക്കരിക്കാൻ ആഗ്രഹിക്കുന്നു. സ്വയം, ഒരു 'ജയശ്രീ' എന്ന മനുഷ്യൻ / കവി അല്ല. അത് പരസ്പരം പടർന്ന് ഇണങ്ങി വ്യാപിച്ചും കലർന്നും കാണാൻ പറ്റാത്തത്രയും സൂക്ഷ്മമായ ഒന്നാകാൻ ശ്രമിക്കുമ്പോലെ തോന്നും ഈ കവിതകളും കാഴ്ചകളും കാണുമ്പോൾ. ഇവിടെ ഒരു പ്രണയം. അത് നശ്വരമാണെങ്കിലും വൈവിധ്യമാർന്നതാണ്. സർവ്വവ്യാപിയും ഭൗമവുമായ ഒരു ജീവജാലപ്രപഞ്ചത്തിൽ അത് സജീവമാണ്.

About the Book

Pranayam, or Love, is such an emotion that cannot be limited. Pranayam – Limited Version gathers Jayasree T.’s reflections on unlimited love expressed through very limited number of words and lines of poetry. The poems are inspired by photographs captured by the poet herself as well as by other nature lovers, some of whom are photographers by profession and some for diversion. Jayasree’s poems in Malayalam have been translated into English by Sujatha Warrier. What began as a light-hearted exercise of creative camaraderie grew into a collection of pictures, poems and their translation.

Readers’ Reviews:

Love as ‘Limited Version’ speaks a lot ironically. The capacious nature and manifestations of love, and its kinship with nature and human nature lends a dimension which is immeasurable, thus rigidly limiting the interpretation of love. The many shades and infinite permutations and combinations of love, the essence of the abstract, remind me of the “melakartha ragas” and their infinite “janyas”…the chromatical brilliance of colours, the chiaroscuro of myriad shades.

Yes, the very idea of translation is a daring “tread on a tightrope” as graphically stated by Shreekumar Varma.

Jayasree has stretched it and Sujatha has covered the stretch.

PRANAYAM – an e-book with a difference…intellectually challenging, visually pleasing.

-      Professor Rangarajan G.

ആദ്യമായാണ് ഇത്തരത്തിൽ ഒരു ഇ ബുക്ക് പണം മുടക്കി വാങ്ങി ‌ വായിക്കുന്നത്. ഒട്ടും മുഷിഞ്ഞില്ലെന്നു മാത്രമല്ല ഏറെ സൗകര്യപ്രദവും... ജയടീച്ചറുടെ 'സാരമില്ല' വാങ്ങി വായിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്. അതിനും മുൻപേ ടീച്ചറുടെ ചിത്ര കവിതകളെ പിന്തുടരുന്നും ഉണ്ടായിരുന്നു. ഇതിലെ കവിതകളും അതിന്റെ വിവർത്തനവും ഒരേ പോലെ ഭംഗിയായി തോന്നി. ഇതിലെ ഒരു കവിതയുടെ വിവർത്തനം ഓഡിയോ ആയി കേട്ടിരുന്നു. ഇതിനോടൊപ്പം തന്നെ മുഴുവൻ കവിതകൾക്കും ആ ഒരു ഓഡിയോ ഭാഗം കൂടി ഉണ്ടായിരുന്നെങ്കിൽ എന്ന് മോഹിച്ചു പോയി ❤️ അഭിനന്ദനങ്ങൾ സുജാത വാര്യർ 🥰 ജയടീച്ചർ 🥰

-      Sudheer Peringode 

Book Launch at Kochi: Pranayam - Limited Version

Rammohan
Paliyath

Following the initial release of Pranayam (Love) – Limited Version at Mysuru on January 6, the e-book was launched at River Bourne Center, Kochi, by Author and Columnist Rammohan Paliyath on February 4, 2024. The audience – a coterie of bookish people – was looking forward to the "Webinivesam" author’s informal and delightful oratory, and it was as effortlessly engaging as expected. 

Shreekumar
Varma

Playwright, Author, Poet, and Columnist Shreekumar Varma shared his thoughts on the three-dimensional creative collaboration of poetry and photography, and the individual and collective experiences of the pictures and poems. Poet, Artist, Curator and Researcher Kavitha Balakrishnan, who was expected to but could not make it to the event, made her virtual presence felt. 

An introduction of the photographers and their pictures along with poetry rendition by the poets was well received by the audience. Not to mention the musical rendition of a select few Malayalam poems by Lyricist, Composer and Short Film Director Krishnakumar Varma.

Rangarajan G.

Pranayam – Limited Version (Love – Limited Version) is a flipbook of pictures and poems in Malayalam and English. Jayasree T.’s Malayalam poems are inspired by photographs captured by Basanth Peringode, Manikantan Mundakkal, Poornima G., Riya Anes, Sudevan and Zakariya, and translated by Sujatha Warrier. The e-book, designed by Bharati Varrier, has been published by Writers International Edition. The e-book is available on Google Books. For your copy of the e-book, please click here.

Jayadas. T.

The concluding session, which was an interactive one, turned out to be thoroughly entertaining as well with the participation of Poet, Professor and much-more Rangarajan G. and  Jayadas T., a teacher of math who is full of mirth. The evening ended with amazing twilight waterfront photo opportunities well exploited by the guests and participants.

Kavitha
Balakrishnan

Krishnakumar
Varma

                                           

Book Launch at Mysuru: Pranayam - Limited Version

 

Introduction to the e-book by Sujatha Warrier

Pranayam – Limited Version was launched by Geethanjali Dilip, Poet and Curator, Yercaud Poetry Festival, at the 6^th edition of the Festival held at Royal Orchid Brindavan Garden, Mysore, on January 6, 2024, in the presence of the Chief Guest of the event, Prof. B. N. Balajee, Sai Baba University, along with the Guest of Honor, Shubha Sanjay Urs, Chair Person, Mysore Literature Festival, Rotary Dist. (2982)

Geethanjali Dilip

Governor 2023-24, Rtn. S. Raghavan, the leading members of Rotary Club of Salem Galaxy who were the sponsors of the Festival, a physical gathering of poets from different parts of India, and a virtual participation of poets from different parts of the world. The Festival was organized by the Soul Scribers Society, Salem.

Pranayam Limited Version, an e-book, was launched with a click on the link to the book by Poet Geethanjali Dilip on January 6, 2024, the first day of the Festival. A screening of the e-book was done on the second day, January 7, 2024. 

Ashish Godya, Soul Scribers Society

Pranayam - Limted Version (Love – Limited Version), published by Writers International Edition, is a collection of photographs, short poems in Malayalam, and their translation in English.

Jayasree T.’s poems in Malayalam have been translated into English by Sujatha Warrier. The photographs, which have inspired the poems, are by Basanth Peringode, Manikantan Mundakkal, Poornima G., Riya Anes, Sudevan and Zakariya. The book has been designed by Bharati Varrier. 

The e-book is available at play.google.com 

Book Launch - One More Line and Other Poems

 

The virtual launch of One More Line and Other Poems by Dancer, Musician and Writer Dr. Rajashree Warrier on December 30, 2021.

One More Line and Other Poems

Title: One More Line and Other Poems

Genre: Poetry

Author: Sujatha Warrier
Publisher: Authorspress
Bookstore: Amazon 

Excerpt from the Foreword to the Book

"The mark of a good poet is to sustain the theme within the poem’s ambit and good poetry is never effusive in language. If it is to come alive it must be put together efficiently, organized naturally, say like a tree, whose every part serves a useful purpose and cooperates with every other part to preserve and express the life that is within it. Sujatha succeeds in that aspect quite effortlessly.

Poems, like semi-transparent opal, flash out different colours when slowly turned in the light. Readers' understanding and receptivity must turn in that light to enjoy all the facets that her poems offer."

 - Ambika Ananth, Author, Poet, Journalist, Founder Editor of 'Muse India'

Between Thought and Expression

 

A thought turns into a word. Words run into lines. Lines become an expression. Some of these expressions connect to your mind like leaves to a petiole. Some fall in an autumnal disarray. Some stay with you wherever you go, like leaves carried by the wind to different places. Whatever be its fate, every leaf has its own purpose. Here, I hold out to you a small foliage of expressions. Each, I am sure, will find its destiny.

 - Sujatha Warrier 

The book is available on Amazon at the following link:

https://www.amazon.in/One-More-Line-Other-Poems/dp/B09N7QDJF7/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1640329889&refinements=p_27%3ASujatha+Warrier&s=books&sr=1-1 

Book Launch - Fireflies

 When Fireflies was launched at Yercaud Poetry Festival 2019

Book release by Rtn. Dilip Narasimhan

Sujatha Warrier

 

Fireflies

Fireflies
by Sujatha Warrier

Fireflies is a collection of very short poems, or rather, fleeting thoughts, on the world around the poet as perceived by her. They touch upon the visible and invisible expressions of nature. The poems were written during a span of time beginning a few months prior to and ending a few months after the devastating floods that ravaged Kerala in 2018.

The book is available on Amazon at https://www.amazon.in/Fireflies-Sujatha-Warrier/dp/B07VCP41ZP/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1586603930&refinements=p_27%3ASujatha+Warrier&s=books&sr=1-1

The Attic & Other Poems

The Attic & Other Poems
by Sujatha Warrier


The Attic & Other Poems is a collection of poems by Sujatha Warrier, with illustrations by the poet's daughter Bharati Varrier, a communication designer.

Some responses by those who took a peek into The Attic:

Isolation, loneliness and absences seep through Sujatha Warrier's poems. She writes of "unwanted memories," her attic's "cluttered storehouse". All her attempts to live in the present "succumb" to dreary nights of pain and desolation. Her metaphoric language fluently builds up dreams and time--a "legacy undiscovered" and "unseen treasures." To read these poems is to go through a journey that records small themes, of engagements that are acutely human. It is a pleasure to read Warrier's poetry.

-          - Bibhu Padhi (Poet, Writer, Literary Critic, Translator)

Sujatha Warrier’s poems touch the heart instantaneously and stick there for long, though they are themselves quite short. I suppose that is the beauty of any poem! The poems interweaved with Bharati Varrier’s illustrations are a treat to the mind!

-           - Neelam Saxena Chandra (Novelist, Poet, Fiction Writer)

Sujatha Warrier's book of poems, The Attic & Other Poems, impresses. The poems, though she says is an attic clutter, display poetic neatness and clarity. Just as she wonders, her words and metaphors display a sensuous fluidity, a rhythmic gush, to form verse at her fingertips. An arresting quality is her ability to turn words and phrases into visuals. Night is a cup of white wine she would drink deep, glow worms turn to flaming fruits, forests fall back deep and intense, like emotions in a hurry.  Her gifts include the ability to set the reader into a mood, as in 'The foothills of Munnar' or with  the remarkable poem 'Love,' where she observes, 'Love is at its most intense, in the little moments before the moment of love.' 'The room next to my room' is a charmer. There is gaining maturity and elegance in the collection. The illustrations have come out well. It has been a pleasure, reading Sujatha's poems.

-          - Gopikrishnan Kottoor (Poet, Novelist, Playwright)

The book is available on Amazon at https://www.amazon.in/Attic-Other-Poems-Sujatha-Warrier/dp/B07G5WFSV6

Book Launch - The Attic & Other Poems

When The Attic & Other Poems was launched at Cochin LIT Fest 2018

Book release by Writer Sethu

L to R: Bharati Varrier, Sujatha Warrier, Sudarshan Kcherry (Authorspress), Santhosh Alex.

L to R: Sujatha Warrier, Writer Sethu, Bharati Varrier