Arundhati Subramaniam - Where God is a Traveller

 Hello Readers, 

So I'm today I am going to write about the sunday holi reading. Sahitya Akademi Awardee Arundhati Subramaniam. Her collection of a poem with the title: When God Is a Traveller. Here is a poem with the similar title.

The " Sahitya Akademi Award "is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 24 major languages, English and 22 listed languages in the Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution recognised by the Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, established in 1954, the award comprises a plaque and a cash prize of rupees 1,00,000. The Award's purpose is to recognize and promote excellence in Indian writing and also acknowledge new trends. 

When God is a Traveller ( 2014 )

Brief Introduction about ARUNDHATI SUBRAMANIAM 

She is an Indian poet, writer, critic,  curator, translator, journalist writing in English. Arundhathi Subramaniam's volume of poetry, " When God is a Traveller " ( 2014 ) was the season choice of the Poetry Book Society, shortlisted for the T.S Eliot Prize. She is the recipient of various awards and fellowship, including 

The inaugural Khushwant Singh Prize

The Raza Award for Poetry

The Zee Women's Award for Literature 

The International Piero Bigongiari Prize in Italy 

The Mystic Kalinga Award 

 The Charles Wallace 

Visiting Arts and Homi Bhabha Fellowship 

 Her Poetry  :-

Reasons for Belonging : Fourteen Contemporary Poets 

 Sixty Indian Poets

 Both Sides of the Sky

 We Speak in Changing Languages ( Sahitya Akademi )

 Fulcrum No. 4 : An Annual of Poetry and Aesthetics 

 The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poetry

 The Dance of the Peacock : An Anthology of English Poetry from India 

 Atlas : New Writing 

Now let us come to the main point on the analysis of the poem, " When God is a Traveller. "

Arundhathi has won the Sahitya Akademi Award for " When God is a Traveller. " Let us see the list of her Books and Poetry,

 some activities.... 

1. A first-read interpretation and reflection

The poem at first place seems much prosaic. If one reads again with more deeper insight, it has many connotations about 

2. prosodic element in the poem

3. Reading the poem through the lens of Indian Poetics