Bharathiar

 Bharathiar - The Great Poet from Tamil Nadu.

I am an ardent fan of the Great Maha Kavi.

Recently his statue was inaugurated at my alma mater - NGM College, Pollachi, Tamil Nadu, India.

That is where I did my UG. It was always great environment and fun doing my UG there. Great professors including Tamil Shri. Dr. Sirpi Balasubramiam and Shri. Dr. Amudan taught us. They always instilled the values of knowledge in us, the students.

Bharathiar in each of his poem attracted us in many ways and we are very much attached to him and his visions.

We want to follow him and be his fan always. I had the opportunity to do M.Phil at Bharathiar University, named after him. I feel proud of that. 

My friend's article about great Bharathiar and his connection to Swami Vivekananda.

One of my favorite poem of his, followed it and fulfilled it by building the EAFARMS farm project:

காணி நிலம் வேண்டும் - பராசக்தி

காணி நிலம் வேண்டும்,

(I need a piece of land , Oh divine mother, A piece of land, and there,) - Photos taken at EAFARMS.

அங்கு

தூணில் அழகியதாய் - நன்மாடங்கள்

துய்ய நிறத்தினதாய் - அந்தக்

காணி நிலத்தினிடையே - ஓர்மாளிகை

கட்டித் தரவேண்டும் 

(In the midst of that small piece of land you should build me a house with,

Four pretty pillars and several floors)  

அங்கு

கேணியருகினிலே -

தென்னைமரம்

கீற்று மிளநீரும்.

பத்துப் பன்னிரண்டு -

 தென்னைமரம்

பக்கத்திலே வேணும் - 

(and there near the small pond, Coconut tree leaves should shine in small well water.)

நல்ல

முத்துச் சுடர்போலே - நிலாவொளி

முன்பு வரவேணும், 

(Near ten or twelve coconut trees , moon light should come)

அங்கு

கத்துங் குயிலோசை - சற்றே வந்து காதிற் படவேணும், -

(and there the soft song of the Indian cuckoos - nightingales,

Should come and fall in my ears to make mind happy,)

என்றன்

சித்தம் மகிழ்ந்திடவே - நன்றாயிளந்

தென்றல் வரவேணும்.

(Good light breeze should blow to make me further happy.)

பாட்டுக் கலந்திடவே - அங்கேயொரு

பத்தினிப் பெண்வேணும் - எங்கள்

கூட்டுக் களியினிலே - கவிதைகள்

கொண்டுதர வேணும்

(To mix music there , there should be a virtuous wife there, and in our play together , you should bring and give poems,)

- அந்தக்

காட்டு வெளியினிலே - அம்மா! நின்றன் காவலுற வேணும்,

 - என்றன்

பாட்டுத் திறத்தாலே - இவ்வையத்தைப்

பாலித்திட வேணும்.

(And in that forest expanse, Oh mother you should provide guard,

And by the great knowledge of music , you should look after this world.)

Matangi Amma temple overlooking EAFARMS:

What a vision by Great Mahakavi Bharathiar. 

Quora question about this Bharathi song: 

https://www.quora.com/What-do-you-think-about-Mahakavi-Bharathis-1882-1921-question-Whatever-I-perceive-as-standing-still-walking-and-flying-around-me-are-all-of-these-just-my-dreams-Are-they-mere-illusions

I thank God that I have followed his dream and built EAFARMS project as he dreamt. It has become a nature wonder.

Makesh Karuppiah, PhD

Environmental Scientist and Information Technologist

Mahakavi Bharathiar Fan

Birds - Protect Them

Wonderful creatures that brings aesthetics to any environment. Just watching them fly and hear them sing takes away the stress. Colorful, different sizes, voices, cuteness, intelligent, building nests, raising young ones, migration and many more reasons that make bird watching a pleasant event. One can wake up stress free when woke up naturally by chirping and singing birds. Creator has created birds for a reason.

More about birds - http://www.birds.cornell.edu

https://www.audubon.org/

2018 - Year of The Bird

A little bird such as Cassin's vireo can migrate long way

                                       Some Colorful Birds

    

                         

                                                       

                                                                   

    

Quote - “ I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. ” - American Poet Emily Dickinson
- which is a true statement.

At EA Farms we practice Sustainable Organic Natural Agriculture practices along with agro forestry to bring back birds.

A poem written by my daughter when she was in elementary school -                  

The Birds' Spot.

You can see how we create a niche for birds in our backyard, photographed and published it as a free eBook for everyone to enjoy.

Backyard Birds

As I was writing this blog, this Majestic Red Shouldered Hawk came and sat on our backyard compound wall.

                                         

To the young people out there:

There is more than your phones and gadgets out there, Take a stroll into the nature, watch these birds and enjoy the environment. It will for sure - help towards your health and well being.

To see such wonderful creatures erased due to advancement of human technologies, it really hurts.

Against human force they fall into helpless category. Our technology improvements never consider environment, earth co-inhabitants and environmental health. We are just focused on technological achievement as eye closed horse and do not even think about any thing else. Environment is as important as the technology and it should be considered whenever we move forward technology wise, Proper and humane tests should be completed before we move to a new technology blind folded. Even if we move that way at least we should find a way to shield and protect our co-inhabitants such as the beautiful birds and other flora, fauna and under-privileged who don't have any say against the injustice. Also nowadays I see lots of deforestation. Most of the bird habitats are changing to concrete jungles. Where will the birds live?. Eco-justice needs to be considered so that our future generations can also experience the wonderful songs and colorful birds as we do. Praying for that and request you to do your part (by growing trees that supports birds and simple things such as putting up a bird bath). 

Makesh Karuppiah, PhD
Environmental Scientist and Information Technologist

ZoomVin - Creating Environmental Niche and Photography

Recently we created ZoomVin website:

What we do in this site is - we create environmental awareness. How do we do that - We create a real world environmental niche for birds and butterflies by planting trees and flowering plants. Also by properly placing bird feeders and baths we attract birds. They are fun to watch and we capture them in our camera. Through zoomvin we want to share the world these beautiful pictures in the form of digital media.

Birds: 

Butterflies:

Roses and Flowers:

Nature:

See and enjoy these books (pictures). You can also create your own environment and attract them and capture those wonderful moments. These are small environments where these many birds visits. We have a created a bigger niche at EA FARMS and lots of different birds visit. It is also a sustainable land development project.