N. Kumaran Asan (also known as Mahakavi Kumaran Asan, the name prefix Mahakavi(Awarded by Madras University in the Year 1922) meaning great poet and the suffix Asan meaning scholar or teacher) was a Malayalam poet, philosopher and social reformer. Kumaran Asan was one of the famous triumvirate poets of(N.Kumaran Asan,Vallathol Narayana Menon and Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer )Kerala in the first half of the 20th century. Malayalam (മലയാളം) is the major language of the state of Kerala, in southern India. ... N.Kumaran Asan,Vallathol Narayana Menon and Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer are regarded as the triumvirates (Kavithrayam) of modern Malayalam literature. ... Kerala (IPA: ; Malayalam: കേരളം — ) is a state on the tropical Malabar Coast of southwestern India. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the...

Kumaran Asan initiated a revolution in Malayalam poetry in the first quarter of the 20th century, transforming it from metaphysical to lyrical. Deep moral and spiritual commitment is evident in Asan's poetry. His works are eloquent testimony of his poetic concentration and dramatic contextualization. in Malayalam literature. His elegy Prarodanam mourns the death of his contemporary and friend A.R. Rajaraja Varma, the famous Grammarian. His Khanda Kavyas (small poems) like Nalini, Leela, Karuna and Chandaalabhikshuki, were popular. In Chintaavishtayaaya Seetha (Seetha Lost in Thought) he displays his poetic artistry, while in Duravastha, he patiently and skillfully tears down the barriers created by feudalism, orthodoxy and casteism and consummates the dictum of the Guru, “One Caste, One Religion, One God for man”. Literature written in Malayalam language. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the... Metaphysical may refer to: Metaphysics, a branch of philosophy dealing with the ultimate nature of reality; or The Metaphysical poets, a poetic school from seventeenth century England who correspond with baroque period in European literature. ... Lyrics are the written words in a song. ... Elegy was originally used for a type of poetic metre (Elegiac metre), but is also used for a poem of mourning, from the Greek elegos, a reflection on the death of someone or on a sorrow generally. ... This article is about Sita Devi, the wife of Rama. ... Roland pledges his fealty to Charlemagne; from a manuscript of a chanson de geste. ...

The crowning achievement of Kumaran Asan was his Buddha Charitha in 5 volumes, for which he got inspiration from Edwin Arnold’s Light of Asia. While in Duravastha, he revealed his revolutionary zeal for fighting caste distinctions; a few other poetic works had a distinct Buddhist slant. Buddhism or Neo-Buddhism held great appeal to the people of the lower strata of society. Sir Edwin Arnold (1832-1904), English poet and journalist, was born on June 10, 1832 at Gravesend, the son of a Sussex magistrate, and was educated at Kings school, Rochester; Kings College, London; and University College, Oxford. ... Caste systems are traditional, hereditary systems of social stratification. ... A replica of an ancient statue found among the ruins of a temple at Sarnath Buddhism is a philosophy based on the teachings of the Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama, a prince of the Shakyas, whose lifetime is traditionally given as 566 to 486 BCE. It had subsequently been accepted by...

The Mahakavi lived only for fifty years. His life was tragically cut short by a boat accident in January 1924. But the trail he blazed in the literary and social firmament of Kerala is an inspiration for any student of contemporary history. Kumaranasan was also the inspiration for large-scale political and social changes in Kerala, long before any other State in India. 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Works

• Veenapoovu
• Nalini
• Leela
• Chintaavishtayaaya Sita
• Duravasta
• Chandaalabhikshuki
• Karuna