Yuvan Chandrasekar
இந்தப் பக்கத்தை தமிழில் வாசிக்க: யுவன் சந்திரசேகர்
Yuvan Chandrasekar (born December 14, 1961) is a Tamil writer and Poet. An important creator who wrote with elements of postmodern aesthetics. He wrote poetry under the name of M. Yuvan. Yuvan Chandrasekar's works reveal a kind of Mystical Reality that he defines as Alternate Reality.
Birth, Education
Yuvan Chandrasekar whose birth name was Chandrasekaran was born in Karattupatti, a village near Cholavandan in Madurai district to M.S. Ramanathan - B.S. Parvatham Ammal couple on December 14, 1961.
Yuvan Chandrasekar's father ran a small restaurant near Cholavandan and was also a priest at a temple in Karattupatti. When Yuvan Chandrasekar was ten years old, his father passed away due to liver disease called Makodaram. Yuvan's father being a storyteller, humorist and simple-minded person had a profound influence on his personality. He is a recurring character in Yuvan Chandrasekar's stories. Yuvan Chandrasekar says "He would recite Kambaramayanam by heart. All the acts in it are memorized with it's lections. In some places, he would also sing" says Yuvan Chandrasekhar.
Yuvan Chandrasekar's elder brother got a job and his family moved to Madurai. He grew up under the support of his elder brother.
Yuvan Chandrasekar did his schooling up to class Ten at Karattupatti, classes six and seven at Melanachikulam Government School and class eight at Periyakulam. He then completed his schooling at Shenainagar Corporation School, Madurai, and completed his Bachelor of Commerce degree at Madurai American College. Yuvan Chandrasekar was known as a singer during his college days.
Personal Life
Yuvan Chandrasekar after completing his college, passed the banking examination and joined the State Bank of India in Ramanathapuram. On August 8, 1987, he married Usha Bhagawathi from Kovilpatti and settled there. Yuvan Chandrasekar's son Aravindan is a Computer Engineer and daughter Meera is a Food Scientist.
Yuvan Chandrasekar, who was transferred to Chennai from Kovilpatti, retired as an accountant in State Bank. Yuvan Chandrasekar lives in Chittlapakkam, Chennai. Yuvan Chandrasekar's wife Usha took voluntary retirement as a post office employee.
Literary Life
Yuvan Chandrasekar took interest in literature from the environment of Madurai American College. Yuvan's first short story was published in the College Annual Edition and Saavi Magazine. Yuvan Chandrasekar wrote his first poem in English on the occasion of his father's death when he was in seventh grade.
Yuvan Chandrasekar met the poet Devadachan when he settled in Kovilpatti. Devadachan introduced Yuvan to Modern Literature and Philosophy. Yuvan Chandrasekar was one of the group of modern literati who surrounded Devadachan at Kovilpatti. Another literary figure who influenced Yuvan Chandrasekar was the Poet Anand. Later conversations with Sundara Ramasamy shaped Yuvan Chandrasekar's personality.
Poems
Yuvan Chandrasekar initially wrote only poems. Yuvan's Modern Poems were published in 1988 in the magazine Kanavu. Later he wrote in Kalachuvadu magazine run by Sundara Ramasamy. The first collection of poems 'Ottrai Ulagam' was published in 1996. He became close to Sundara Ramasamy and often went to Nagercoil and stayed at Sundara Ramasamy's house and engaged in literary discussions. He continuously wrote in Writer Brahmarajan's in Meetshi magazine.
Alternate Reality
Yuvan Chandrasekar was traveling from Trichy to Uyyankondan with his father-in-law when a gang hijacked the autorickshaw they were traveling in and threatened them and stole their Jewellery and Money. That incident gradually took a toll on him and he started feeling the stress and took treatment for it. He says that incident and the stress it caused changed the outlook on his life. He realized that the world events that we see may have been coded in a completely different way than what we see, and that what we think of as co-incidences has another layer and logic that we do not understand. Yuvan Chandrasekar refers to it as Alternate Reality.
Yuvan Chandrasekar coded his personal psychic picture to writer and physicist such as Roger Penrose on the one hand, and mystical fiction writers such as Carlos Castaneda on the other. Carlos Castaneda's Dan Juan was a character that deeply influenced Yuvan Chandrasekar. He also extended his views on the lives of Indian philosophers like Ramana Maharishi. Tiruvannamalai is a frequent place in Yuvan Chandrasekar's stories.
To understand Yuvan Chandrasekar's fictional world, it is essential to know the concept of Alternate Reality that he presents. Yuvan Chandrasekar says that our daily life contains facts and rationality that we believe in and underneath these are other types truths that are part of the whole cosmic movement which forms part of it. He says that there are many layers of these virtues and they come to our knowledge only in a few moments of our life. It is for this very reason, the element of coincidence is so important in Yuvan Chandrasekar's stories.
Fiction
Yuvan Chandrasekar found that poetry was not the best form to present his vision of Alternative Reality and he turned into fiction. Yuvan Chandrasekar's fictional world is characterized by the fact that many events that seem unrelated on the surface are integrated by a different logic underneath, through which a truth unknowable by everyday life emerges. Therefore, his short stories are a basically appear like a collection of spare stories. Instead of Modern Short Story's unified story telling method, he found an alternate in multifaceted method where a story expands and contains a story within itself, a way where a story discusses about a story in the form of Meta Fiction to be useful. Because of these elements of Postmodern Aesthetics he is considered a Post Modern Fiction Writer.
Yuvan Chandrasekar's story 'Thayamma Patti Sonna Narpathiyoru Sirukathaigal' is a best example of the 'story collection' format, which got released in Sol Puthithu magazine. He applied the same style and format in his novels. Novels such as Kulla Chithan Sarithiram Pagadaiyattam, Veliyettram have the structure of disparate events being unified by a mysterious thread. Yuvan Chandrasekar finds the relevant plots for these novels. Stories told by different people, Conversations about the events within the story, book references, and historical events are mixed and weaved together to form part of the fictional reality of these novels.
Yuvan Chandrasekar continues to Micro Fiction. These are another form of Story Cluster. In all the stories the character Krishnan comes with the identity of the author. Short stories are also connected at one central point.
Music
Yuvan Chandrasekhar is interested in Hindustani music and he constantly travels to Hindustani music festivals and listening to the music. He conducted a long interview with singer Sanjay Subramaniam. Yuvan Chandrasekar has written two novels in the background of Hindustani music. The two novels Kanalnadhi and Ninaivudir Kalam are important among the novels written in Tamil with music as background.
Literary Place
Yuvan Chandrasekar (M. Yuvan) has written poems that represent the ultimate peak of Modern Poetry. They are poems that are expressive, concentrated, nuanced, non emotional, and which portraits external images. Later he moved from those to poems with postmodern elements.
Yuvan Chandrasekar is one of the creators of who paved way for Tamil literature to go beyond its modernist aesthetics. Yuvan Chandrasekar's stories rejected the three basic norms such as strict and concentrated language, unified form and central theme, developed by the pioneer authors till then. His stories and novels are characterized by chatty, loose language, incoherent form within subtexts, with decentralized arguments. Until then, Tamil modern literature had published works that spoke of external reality and works that presented the inner world of the individual. Yuvan Chandrasekar crossed these two platforms and presented a mystical platform beyond the external reality and beyond the understanding of individuals. A world constructed entirely of fiction has its own norms and systems. An 'Alternate Reality' connected by unknowable strings. Only left-wing political philosophy and individualistic existentialist philosophy were elaborated in Tamil fiction. Yuvan Chandrasekar created a philosophical discussion in his fiction that presented a non-religious spirituality.
Yuvan Chandrasekar's fictional world has been crafted to provide an interesting reading experience with a variety of storytellers that are very accessible to everyday life and the various local cases they talk about. It is that microcosm that creates their artistry.
"Yuvan stands out from other existential modernists because of the philosophical and spiritual ground achieved in his stories" Sunil Krishnan assesses Yuvan Chandrasekhar(1). "Yuvan stories can also be identified as history told through memories" says Suresh Pradeep(2).
Awards
- Sparrow Literary Award for Tamil Poetry in 2019
- 2011 Canadian Literary Garden Award for Payanakathai Novel
- Tirupur Tamil Sangam Award
Creations
Poem Collections
- Ottrai Ulagam
- Verorukalam
- Pugaichuvarukku Appal
- Kai Marathiyai Vaitha Naal
- Muthal 74 Kavithaigal
Novels
- Kulla Chithan Sarithiram (Tamilini Publications)
- Pagadaiyattam (Tamilini Publications)
- Kanalnathi (Uyirmai Publications)
- Manalkeni (Uyirmai Publications)
- Veliyettram (Uyirmai Publications)
- Payanakathai (Kalachuvadu Publications)
- Ninaivuthir Kalam (Kalachuvadu Publications)
- Oorsuttri (Kalachuvadu Publications)
- Neerparavaigalin Thiyanam (Kalachuvadu Publications)
- Vethalam Sonna Kathai (Kalachuvadu Publications)
- Enkona Manithan (Zero Degree Publications)
Short Story Collections
- Yuvan Chandrasekar Short Stories (Kizhakku Publications)
- Ozhivilagal
- Erkanave
- Kadalil Erinthavai
- Emaarum Kalai
- Kadal Konda Nilam
- Thalaippillathavai
- Ottrarithal (Kalachuvadu Publications)
Translations
- Peyarattra Yaathreegan (Jen Poem Collection)
- Enathu India (Jim Carpet)
- Kuthirai Vettai (Per Petherson)
- Koottuvizhigal Konda Manithan (Vu Ming Yi)
- Bommai Arai (Lawrence Villalonga)
References
- Antharathil Irukkum Thaniyan Naan! - Interview: Yuvan Chandrasekar - tamilmagazine2.pressbooks.com
- Yuvan Chandrasekar Karutharangu - Sittril Kuzhumam, American College Tamil Research Department, October 2019
- Yuvan Chandrasekar - Aravind, thendral magazine
- "Ilakkiyam Enum Bankarukkul Ozhinthirukiren!" - Writer Yuvan Chandrasekar - C. Arum Prasad, Vikatan, May 2021
- https://youtu.be/qWhqUalglHw
- Erkanave Punaivin Nizhal - R. Giritharan
- Naveena Tamil Ilakkiyathin Muri Marunthu: Yuvan Chandrasekar Sirukathai Ulagam - Suneel Krishnan
- Ninaivugalai Thoduthezuthum Varalaru - Yuvan Chandrasear Sirukathaigal
- Olaichuvadi Yuvan Page
- Solvanam Yuvan Chandrasekar Page
- Erkanave - Gugan Mathippurai
- Veliyettram - Oru Mathippurai
- Kullan Chithan Sarithiram Mathippurai
- Siriyavishayangalin Kathaisolli
- Kathainilam Yuvan Chandrasekar
- Kathaiyattam - Yuvan Chandrasekar Stories
- Kathaigalin Soothattam: Yuvan Chandrasekarin Puthiya Novel 'Pagadaiyattam'
- Mozhipeyarppu pattri Yuvan Chandrasekar
- https://youtu.be/uCRbnZuKa5I
- https://youtu.be/E2ZYXuKT-dA
- https://youtu.be/6BbKGmqyneI
- https://youtu.be/xfRmxw36iIA
- https://aroo.space/2021/05/10/%e0%
- https://solvanam.com/author/yuvan_chandrasekhar/
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