Summary:
It is the brief but mystifying and incandescent moments of Kalidasa’s life that M Nandakumar brings alive through his fictional tribute titled Kalidasante Maranam. more-inLanguage flowed like manna from his lips, for he was the master versifier. Here is a tale that is as much an elegy to Kalidasa as it is an ode to poetry and death. Using Kalidasa’s own purple patches, the molten beauty of his verses, the sublime excesses of his imagination and imagery, Nandakumar crafts a tale of the master teller. The primal impulse to verse as much as to the beauty of life is what keeps Kalidasa alive across centuries..