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Vasantha Surya Writing for newspapers and magazines on social, cultural, and educational issues, translating novels, stories and poems from Tamil into English, writing poetry in English and Tamil, translating poems into Tamil from German, writing for children, editing books on yoga by TKV Desikachar, and teaching remedial English in schools and a nursing institution – this is what Vasantha Surya has been up to so far, in addition to enjoying herself in the company of family, especially children, and many friends |
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Revathy Gopal Vasantha Surya reads in memory of Revathy Gopal. In her words : "Revathy Gopal was more my sister than she was a 'cousin' was born in 1947 to Tamil-speaking parents, her mother being one of the first women graduates of her generation. She was educated mostly in Bombay and Madras, and did her BA, MA and MPhil in English literature. Married to VS Gopalakrishnan, IAS, she travelled around India and to France as they brought up their two sons, and wrote for magazines and newspapers on varied subjects of social change and culture. A perceptive literary critic, she taught creative writing to students of communication. She wrote honestly, from the standpoint of her background and situation, about the predicaments of contemporary life -- the resources, the tensions and the miseries of the deprived, and of women, and children. The ambiguities of tradition and the need to reconnect constructively with the past engaged her passionate attention. Apart from sensitive ruminative essays (Free Fall and Other Follies) she wrote two volumes of poetry (Six, and The Last Possibilities of Light). Many poems had been published in magazines, and some were translated into Dutch.Some won prizes in the British Council's All-India Poetry Competition.
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