Es Po passes away in Australia
[TamilNet, Wednesday, 26 November 2014, 20:32 GMT]
Veteran Eezham Tamil creative writer, author, translator and publisher S. Ponnuthurai passed away at the age of 82 in Sydney, Australia, on Wednesday. He was popularly known as Es Po. Born in 1932 at Nalloor in Jaffna, Es Po studied at Madras Christian College and at Annaamalai University. Writing nearly for six decades, Es Po was a school by himself in contemporary Tamil literature. His demise creates an irreplaceable vacuum in the literary world of Eezham Tamils. At a time, especially after 2009, when many Tamil academics, intellectuals and writers, thinking of ‘acceptability’ of the Establishments, were opportunistically detractive, evasive or ambiguous in their expressions on the national liberation of Eezham Tamils, Es Po's voice was the foremost in loudly justifying it.
Veteran Eezham Tamil creative writer, author, translator and publisher S. Ponnuthurai passed away at the age of 82 in Sydney, Australia, on Wednesday. He was popularly known as Es Po. Born in 1932 at Nalloor in Jaffna, Es Po studied at Madras Christian College and at Annaamalai University. Writing nearly for six decades, Es Po was a school by himself in contemporary Tamil literature. His demise creates an irreplaceable vacuum in the literary world of Eezham Tamils. At a time, especially after 2009, when many Tamil academics, intellectuals and writers, thinking of ‘acceptability’ of the Establishments, were opportunistically detractive, evasive or ambiguous in their expressions on the national liberation of Eezham Tamils, Es Po's voice was the foremost in loudly justifying it.
Es Po (1932 - 2014)
“The identity of Tamils in the
island is not Sri Lankan. For over half a century the Sinhala
chauvinists constantly staging devil dance tell that the identity
belongs only to the Sinhalese. A Tamil who has ancestry in the island
has no choice other than claiming for the identity Eezhath-thamizhan in
the international arena. If that identity is not there he has neither
face nor name,” Es Po wrote in a foreword he gave to a poetry collection
published in December 2009.
He strongly condemned the role played by New Delhi in the genocidal war against Eezham Tamils.
He was a pioneer in Eezham and in Tamil Nadu in what is today called as Dalit literature, but Es Po never claimed it.
In his orientation, he was a Marxist. But, he strongly differed from the Communist Establishments and their outfits of his times.
Es Po was teaching in Eezham and in Nigeria before moving to Australia.
Authoring more than 30 books and translating a few African literature into Tamil, Es Po also wrote a 2000-page autobiography, “Varalaattil Vaazhthal,” on his times and his literary mission.
For many years, he was running a publishing house “Mithra” in Chennai which has brought out many publications of Eezham Tamils.
He strongly condemned the role played by New Delhi in the genocidal war against Eezham Tamils.
He was a pioneer in Eezham and in Tamil Nadu in what is today called as Dalit literature, but Es Po never claimed it.
In his orientation, he was a Marxist. But, he strongly differed from the Communist Establishments and their outfits of his times.
Es Po was teaching in Eezham and in Nigeria before moving to Australia.
Authoring more than 30 books and translating a few African literature into Tamil, Es Po also wrote a 2000-page autobiography, “Varalaattil Vaazhthal,” on his times and his literary mission.
For many years, he was running a publishing house “Mithra” in Chennai which has brought out many publications of Eezham Tamils.
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