Vaa.Mu.Sethuraman

Vaa.mu.Sethuraman, popularly known as Vaa.Mu.See. and respectfully called as “PerungKavikko” (Great among Poets), is one among the rare kind of poets. Through his poems he wishes to propagate and attain universal brotherhood in the global village. Wedded to lofty maxims and committed to sublime values, he always craves for peace and international solidarity.

For a period of more than four decades, his pen is busily engaged in the fight against atrocities committed on the economically weaker section of society and exploitation of the downtrodden. To his credit he has produced 65 volumes of poems which consist more than one hundred thousand stanzas of poems whose essence is nothing but humanism.

Born in a tiny village to an agriculturist, it was considered as an achievement of Vaa.Mu.See, when he became a schoolteacher. But he did not contend with this.

The trials and tribulations of the middle-class family did not prevent him from spending money for further education. His consistent efforts got him the postgraduate degree and thereafter Ph.D. could have become a lecturer in a college thereby improving his financial status. But he never thought to earn wealth or to acquire prestigious posts. As a schoolteacher, he found more freedom to run a magazine, to bring more volumes of poemsand to organize agitations for noble causes.

Many a time V.M.Sethuraman courted arrest and was imprisoned. When he was at the age of Ten, he wanted to associate himself with the freedom movement, and served as a volunteer moving closely with the Indian National Congress leaders of his region. His thirst for freedom went to such an extent that he refused to attend English classes during his school days. Now after attaining freedom, he is striving for the four decades to remove English and replace Tamil as the medium of instruction.

For this cause he had convened Hundreds of conferences and organized several agitations.

V.M.Sethuraman has dedicated his whole time and energy for the uplift of Tamil and he is meticulously working for the past four decades, for its modernization in all disciplines.

V.M.Sethuraman is not only a Tamil savant but also a poet who envisages the whole world as a family. He is the only poet who has flown around the world for more than thirty times. He considers the whole mankind as his kith and kin. He longs for a world without war.

Poverty prevails in all countries

Ill thoughts rein their sway

Wisdom dawn

Is not yet born

(Buddha’s Tears)

He shuns religious fundamentalism. The teachings of Jesus, Buddha and Mohammed Nabi were unable to change the war-mongering nations who mercilessly indulge in ruthless genocide of the innocent people.