Congratulations from those who could not come...

[Priyadas G Mangalath]

Thank you Satchi mash, for the prompt and honest commentary of the Keralakavita  function.As I could not attend I was eagerly waiting...Then comes the personal reports from Mash and also PPR , the key organizer. Thank you for the speed with which you broke the news to the keralakavita group.As the news and views from the two most important persons reached fast with the required contents, I am happy and excited. Those of us who missed the opportunity to be with the co-travelers of Paniker Sir at Edappal, do feel that the Foundation and Keralakavita  have committed people to carry forward what the Great Poet wanted.

Response to Satchimash: All of us know that audience is a factor which influences one's behavior. One becomes another. Man becomes a performer when unwarranted; a philosophical issue we may have to manage in our context.To have discussions privately, is a meaningful alternative.Suggestions regarding the collection of fund and distribution shall soon be finalized.
Response to PPR: Though many in the literary field lack the computer literacy,online and e-book versions are options we need to implement urgently. PPR, how can we do that effectively addressing the sale aspect. If you can prepare a proposal addressing the technical and sale aspects we shall move to the next step as fast as we can.We need to become a strong presence in the net.I know that TPS will have something to say and contribute to this thought process.

Let me conclude thanking profusely Satchi Mash who lead from far and PPR who mobilized all resources at Edappal and the entire organizing team including Anwar and Gopikrishnan who I believe did a wonderful work.
PPR, please pass my sincere gratitude to those unknown persons who have selflessly worked day in day out to make this function a success.

In gratitude
Priyadas

 

On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Anita <anitha...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Happy to know all the details so fast ..
> Let us soon have a discussion to plan distribution too.
> Best
> Anitha
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> On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Satchid anandan <satc...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> The Keralakavita function at Edappal generally went off well. Most of the expected participants came including Zachariah; KGS had to go to Bangalore urgently to meet a lung specialist and hence could not come, D Vinayachandran read a poem and launched the issue. The reading session went off well too. Generally the atmosphere was relaxed and informal. The morning discussion on the parallel developments in poetry and short fiction was good as a public event, but lacked the kind of subtlety that we had expected and  was not as text- and form-specific as we  had wanted.My feeling is the presence of a sizeable audience  unconsciously persuaded the writers to perform and hence the intimate and informal the conversation did not happen; instead it looked like a series of monologues.Some valid points did emerge, but they were not adequately carried forward. One lesson we learnt from this was such discussions can happen only privately, without an audience as we did it at Arangottukara. We were of course skeptical to begin with , only our final decision to have the audience misfired. We will send the transcript  to the participants plus a few other chosen writers and critics and publish it s a symposium and not a conversation.
>> Some good suggestions have also emerged from the discussion on Kerala kavita. One is the corpus fund to which more contributions from our friends as well as from the poets and readers in the Gulf countries can be invited; the second is to get more advts;  the third is subscriptions,the fourth  is persuading Granthashalasangham to do a bulk purchase. ( Prof Achyuthanunni also suggested  approaching NBS for distribution, but we are not generally convinced as NBS is weak when it comes to distribution despite the presence of so many branches- but this can be an option in case others fail. 33 copies were sold during the function,PPRamachandran has taken 20 copies  hoping to sell them through on-line requests at harithakam.com and I am carrying 25 copies to Thrissur tomorrow to be handed over to PNGopikrishnan to be sold to friends / through book stalls. If the drive suceeds we may think of converting KK into a half-yearly with more support from friends  offered to  Priyadas.
>> Warmly Satchida
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[Satchid anandan]

Thanks, Priyadas. I shall write in detail again. I am in Thrissur and in an hour or so , have to deliver the Kovila memorial talk. We should meet while I am in Trivandrum on 10th/11th. Shall call you.

Warmly Satchida

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