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Kumaran Asan Born ( ) 12 April 1873 Kaayikkara.
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Named Kumaranhe was the second son in a family of nine children. Who is the famous Malayalam poet kumaranhe? Kumaran Asan initiated a revolution in Malayalam poetry in the first quarter of the 20th century, transforming it from the metaphysical to the lyrical and his poetry is characterized by its moral and spiritual content, poetic concentration and dramatic contextualization. If we contextualise the poem in the wake of the Aikya Kerala Movement, we can understand that the poem is the result of a subnational sensibility evolved in the Malayalam language.What is the contribution of Kumaran Asan? The people who read these lines would, undoubtedly, think of the need to enrich the mother tongue. Our land from this pitch-dark pit? My Mother Tongue, Vallathol, trans.
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To arouse the patriotic spirit of Malayalis, he asks, Poets and political parties alike supported the Aikya Kerala Movement, and “Ente Bhasha” by Vallathol can be viewed as a strong statement on the need to be proud of one’s mother tongue. At that time, there was Thiru-Kochi state, and Malabar was part of Madras Presidency. In Kerala as well, the Aikya Kerala Movement was formed to create a state for Malayali speaking communities. There were agitations and movements all over India to form states on linguistic lines.
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The newly elected govt, based on the “Vallabhai Patel Plan”, states were formed not on linguistic lines. After centuries of freedom struggle, India got independence in 1947. The poem “Ente Bhasha” has to be read in the context of the growth subnationalism in India. Vallathol also contributed to the development of the Kerala art by founding the famous Kerala Kalamandalam. A nationalist in the true spirit, Vallathol wrote various poems and a “mahakavya” titled Chitrayogam. “My Mother Tongue” (original title “Ente Bhasha) is a poem written by Vallathol Narayana Menon, who was one among the ‘modern triumvirate poets’ of Malayalam(other two are Kumaran Asan, and Ulloor S Parameswara Iyer).