# Nachiketas

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- Published: 2020-02-11T04:11:42+00:00
- Author: shuktara

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**Author:** P. Ravikumar[
 ⌊A sample cover of the book: aquamarine coloured handloom
sari with gold embossed nameplate and lettering for the title and author's name.
The border of the sari lines the right hand margin of the cover.⌉
**Translator:**
M. Dakshinamurthy
 **Pages:** 64 **Year of Publication:** 2019 **Price:** Rs 200**
ISBN: **978-81-941819-9-6 (9788194181996)

_**About the Author**_
 Born in 1952, P. Ravikumar has written two long poems and
many articles on music and literature. His first poem, _Em Dee Rāmanāthan_, appeared
in 2004, and his second, _Nachiketas_, in 2009. The Hindi translation of_ Nachiketas_
was published in 2013 and a Polish translation is forthcoming. It has been prescribed
for detailed study for the MA degree in Malayalam by Calicut University. Ravikumar
is also a music critic and journalist and was on the editorial board of the _Keralakaumudi_
daily. He is now the Literary Editor of the _Kalakaumudi_ weekly.

_**About the Translator**_
 Born in January 1944, M. Dakshinamurthy obtained his
MA in English from Maharaja’s College, Ernakulam (Kerala). He writes poems and essays
in English, Malayalam and Tamil and has translated from and into these languages.
He won the Ulloor Award of the Thiruvananthapuram Tamil Sangham in 2008. His published
works include _English Kālpanikatā_, a critical work in Malayalam on Romantic literary
theories, and _Divyadarshanam_, a collection of poems in Tamil. His translation 
of P. Ravikumar’s _**[M D Rāmanāthan](https://writersworkshopindia.com/books/m-d-ramanathan/)**_
was published by **Writers Workshop**, India, in 2015.

_**Teaser**_

In his foreword, Sri M writes:

“To bring an ancient and advanced treatise on pure wisdom to a simple, poetic and
understandable form is indeed a difficult task especially since the original _Katha
Upanishad_ is in a language very few have studied in depth these days: Sanskrit.

Ravikumar has done the impossible. His poem _Nachiketas_ in Malayalam brings forth
the essence of the _Upanishad_ with simplicity, clarity and poetic rhythm.”