Pullanalum Purushan

Pullanalum  Purushan

 

By

Shivam Perinkulam 

 

Translation attempt by

P.R.Ramachander

 

புல்லானாலும் புருஷன், கல்லானாலும் கணவன்

வாயைதிறந்தொரு வார்த்தை நீ சொல்லாதே ! புல்லானாலும் 1

 

Pullanulum  purushan , kallanulum  kanavan

Vayai  thiranthoru vaarthai   sollathe                           Pullanalum

 

Even if  he  is grass , he  is your  husband

Even  If he  is stone  , he is your husband

Do not tell a single    word  opening  your mouth ------  Even if it is grass

 

வேலைக்கு போகாமே வீட்டிலேயே குந்தி

வெட்டிச்சோறு தின்னு கும்மாளம் போட்டாலும்,

பிள்ளைகளை தூக்கி தண்ணீலே போட்டாலும்,

பெண்டாட்டியை போட்டு 'டும்' 'டும்' ன்னு போட்டாலும் புல்லானாலும் 2

 

Velaikku pokaame veettleyea kunthi,

Vettisoruthinnu kummalam pottalum,

Pillaikalai thookki thanneele pottalum

Pentattaipottu tom, tom nnu pottalum –pullanalum

 

Even if he  sits in the house  without going for work

Even if he needlessly shouts after eating food  of the home

Even if he  lifts the babies  and puts  in water

Even if he  beats  his   wife Dum , Dum                  Even if it is grass

 

தண்ணி அடிச்சுட்டு வீட்டுக்கு வந்தாலும்

தடியாலே நீ அவன் தலைமேலே போடாதே,

ஆடு, கோழி, காசு அத்தனையும் போயி

ஆண்டியா வந்து உன் முன்னாலே நின்னாலும் புல்லானாலும் 3

 

Thanni aditchuttu veetukku vandalum

Thadiyalea nee avan thalaimelea podathea

Aadu, koshi, kasu athanaium poyi

Andiyavandu un munnale ninnalum              pullanalum

 

Even if he   drinks  toddy   and comes  home

Do not hit him   with a huge stick on his  head

Even if he loses  goat , hem , and money

And comes  and stands  before you  as a  beggar          Even if it is grass

 

'குப்பம்மா எல்லாம் என் தப்பம்மா , ஒனக்கொரு

கோயில்கெட்டி கும்பிடறேன், தாயி பொன்னம்மா'

இப்படியெல்லாம் சொல்லி இரவிலே வந்து ன்னை

எஈமாத்துவன் இனி பெத்துககாதே தாயி ! புல்லானாலும் 4

 

 

 ‘Kuppamma ellam en thappamma onakkoru

kovilketti kumbideran thayi ponnamma’

Ippadiyellam solli iravile vandunnai

eamathuvan, ini pethukkathe, thayi. pullanalum

 

Oh Kuppammma    everything is my mistake, I will,

Build a temple for you and salute you, darling golden girl

Saying  things like this I, he will  com at night,

And deceive   you, oh mother  do not give more  births        Even it is grass

 

 

Dying days

Dying days

By

Oviyachinthu in tamil

Tanslated  by

P.R.Ramachander

(The scene of a death from the man dying is described here in a great fashion.kudos to the poet)

 Joy  was absent  in all faces

 

All relations  crowding together,

Were  Talking about the good in him

 

Unable to stand, talk  and even move

He  was  couting his  last days

 

All relations  simply drowned

Him with   their  love

 

Seeing those  relations,

Who Never  talked  a single word,

To him  who was  living alone,

Loving  him so muchand showering,

All that is  good on him,

He closed  his eyes  with great wonder

 

Whe n you do not get even a drop of love,

Even while living , many human minds

Are  dead  even when alive,

 

 

 

Go Cyclone , go

 

Go Cyclone , go

By

Poet  Vairamuthu

 

Translated by

P.R.Ramachander

(Here is a poetic request to the cyclone to go away in tamil by one of  the greatest poets in Tamil. God bless him)

Due to trees  getting uprooted

Not cleaning the teeth,

Due to palf leaf roofs  getting disturbed,

Not able  to fan with a palm fan

Without playing  marbles ,

By  robbing away children

Due to not flying kite,

With  dead bodies  of poor

With pleasure , please cross,

Become   the  breath

Would your  great speed,

Be greater  than the big breath of  the poor ,

Poet  Vairamuthu

Sanskrit birthday card

Sanskrit   birthday card

Translation by

P.R.Ramachander

 

Today one of my friend  used this very pretty

Sanskrit words  to wish another friend

 

शुभ जन्म दिनं तुभ्यं

 शुभ जन्म दिनं तुभ्यं

शुभ जन्म दिने तवहे

सकलं मधुरं भूयात

सकलं सफलं भूयात

सकलं च शुभम भूयात।

 

Shubha  Janma  Dhinam Thubhyam

Shubha  janma  Dhinam  Thubhyam

Shubha janma dhinam thvahe

SAkalam  Madhuram bhooyath

Sakalam saphalam   bhooyath

SAkalam mcha  shubhamam  Bhooyath

 

Today  is your charming/auspicious  birthday

Today is  your  charming  /auspicious  birthday

Let your birthday  be charming/auspicious

Let everything become  sweet

Let everything be  successful

Let everything become charming/auspicious

Vanangukirom Amma

Vanangukirom  Amma

We are  saluting you, oh mother

 

By

Lakshmi Mohan

 

Translated by

P.R.Ramachander

 

(The writer  has  her DIL  in her DIL  and has  written this great poem.I  wanted to make it only for her Mummy  and have suggested an alternative line, with a wet eye. Sister , whoever  you are, you have done  a great job. Excuse me  )

 

1.Ninaivil  yendrum neeye  Amma

Yengal kanavilum  neeye  Amma

Nithamum  vananginom  Amma

Nin kuzhandaikal   yemai  Kaappai  amma

 

In our thought  , you are always  there, mother

In our dreams  , you are  always  there  mother

WE saluted you daily  , mother

WE are your babies, please protect us  , oh mother

 

2.Nee  yemai  vittu  pirinthu chendraalum Amma

Neee thaan  yengalai  vazhi nadathum deivam amma

Nee  pethra  makan  madiyil  thalai  chaithu , Amma

Neengaa  idam   idhayathil pethrai  Amma

 

Though you  have  parted  and gone away from us Oh Mother

You are the God who guides our way  , Oh mother

Keeping your head on lap of son  whom you gave birth, Oh mother

You made  an not erasable place  in our mind  , oh mother

 

3.Anbodu  aravanaithai   yemaye  , Amma

Andrum  indrum , yendrum  ungal  thunaye  Amma

Arugil  irunthu  anaithum kathru  thanthai Amma

Annaye  , yenakku  mamiyaaralla  nee Amma

(annayeemakku  unayandri  veru  deivam illai  , Amma)

 

You hugged  us   with affection , oh mother

Then , today and for ever , yours  was the help oh mother

You sat near  us and taught  us everything  , oh mother

Oh mother  , to me you are not mother in law  , oh mother

(oh mother  except you we do not haave any god  oh mother)

 

4.Varudangal  kadanthu vittathu   yemai  nee pirinthu  Amma

Vaattam thaan yendrume  yen nenjil  neeyidri  Amma

Vandaai  Umai chuthiye   naangal  thirinthom Amma

Vittu chendraalum yengalul yendrum  neengale Amma

 

After  your parting us  , several years have passed, oh Mother

Without you, sense ofincompletness  is always there in our mind , Oh mother

WE wandered  like a bee , round and round you  , Oh mother

Though you have left us , only  you are there  in our mind oh mother

 

 

Tastey incarnations of Potato

Tastey  incarnations  of Potato

 

Translated  by

P.R.Ramachander

You  made the D.Osa  Pregnant  ,

And made it costly

You  came  with Puri Maharaj,

And  made   him Puri  Masala,

You hid  inside  folded spread  flour  ,

And made  him  Sam Oza

You went inside  Puri  Junior,

And became  the  Pani Puri

You got fried  in this slices  and got name  of Chips,

In some  places  and french fries  in other,

You  got friendship with  Pea(ce.s) 

And became a  great side dish

You  joined  with chana Dhal  ane became Koot

You cut  and got tucked  in Pav

And made  him Vada  Pav

Though you made  the hips  ,

Of  those  who like you fat,

And is the source  of Car bow  high drate

Of many  in this world  ,

Oh Pot  at O,

It is difficult to live  without you

Does caste of child depend on Father or mother ?

 Does caste  of child depend  on Father or mother 

Compiled by

P.R.Ramachander

 

Ravana was born to a maharshi(Brahmin) and a rakshasi- he was considered as a Rakshasa mostly and as a Brahmin some times

 

Parasara  was a Brahmin-  His son born out of a fisher women ,Veda Vyasa   was a Brahmin

SAnthanu  was a kshatriya-All his three sons(one by a river)  and another2  by fisher women  were kshatriyas

Does it mean  the caste  of son depends on father?

 

But

Veda Vyasa  was a Brahmin- His son by a  non Brahmin girl Vidhura was not Brahmin

                                                  -His sons by Kshatriya  girls were Kshatriya

Does  it mean  that caste  of son depends on mother?