Changampuzha- Makers of Indian Literature

Changampuzha Krishna Pillai (1911-1948) was the first Malayalam lyricist who spoke uninhibitedly about his deepest emotions and his suffocating agonies. Here was a poet who reached the connoisseur and the common man with equal ease and facility.

In a brief span of thirty seven years Changampuzha produced a prodigious amount of poetry: charming, sensuous, delectable poetry. The lyrical excellence of his poetry attracted masses. There was something so infectious in his sincere outpourings that his lines reached the remotest corner of the Malayalam-speaking world. In several poems of Changampuzha we notice his ceaseless flirtation with pain and his caressing concern for death.

S. Guptan Nair is a renowned Malayalam critic, essayist and lexicographer. He has more than eight books to his credit including an English-Malayalam Dictionary. He won the Sahitya Akademi award for his book of essays, Tiranjedutta Prabandhangal (Selected Essays) in 1983.

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