Inspiration for Perspiration

Thaaraa Bharati had written abundant of self-development literature.Even two lines of his poem will do wonders by motivating the youth who are fed-up with the unemployment problem and corrupt bureaucracy in our land. Many youth who had gone to the extreme step to plan for their suicide had been motivated by Thaaraa Bharati's poems.
Here such a poem famous for its confidence-building in the minds of readers is translated and given below.

Hi! Youth!

Do not say I am empty-handed

It is unwise;

A big fortune your ten fingers may raise.

What is the price of this ball like globe?

If you attain name and fame

That will be the befitting price.

Arise! Awake!

Before your fiery eyes

Even the sun will look like a tiny spark!

East will not dawn in its course!

We have to tear it off to make it red!

You have got a tiger’s strength!

Frustration is a spider’s web!

Do you intend to sleep in it?

Arise! Awake! My dear friend!

Your awakening will yield

A great revolution in Nature’s course;

Eat to live! Do not live to eat!

Do not let yourself as a feast for lethargy!

Let us show a new direction to the wind!

The fingers are meant for fruitful labor!

Is there any justice in keeping them idle?

Youth is meant for better molding

It is not an age to go the burial field!

Before you reach the age of thirty

Why this wheezing? Is it not dirty?

Should you give your body

as an abode for crimes and wrongs?

Hurry up! Your fingers are farming tools.

They will harvest gold even in barren fields!

Exercise your body!

Teach it self- respect!

Do not believe in fate!

Science gives you the strength to fight!

How taller Himalayas stands!

Your head should stand as another peak!

Live as prominent as a pointing finger

Lying idle please don’t waste your life!

Shoulders are your working tools!

Every place you touch will turn as

Flower-garden!

How many saints have born in this land!

Can’t you exceed them by following their teachings?

Do you consider this world as a hollow nothing?

Why have you got so much frustration?

By your thumb!.

You can control

The revolving force of the globe by your thumb!.

You have got the strength of science and technology

to change the direction of the sun!

Come on Stand up!

Show your might!

Even the height of the sky is below your hip!

The Mayakovsky of India

THAARAA BAARATHY-

THE MAYAKOVSKY OF INDIA

Thaaraa barathi is an illustrious poet of Tamilnadu who had died a premature death at his early fifties.

Thaaraa Barathi can be described as ‘The Mayakovsky of India’ for his highly motivating poems, which are still a source of inspiration for the youth of Tamilnadu.

“ Do not say I am empty-handed

It is unwise;

A big fortune your ten

Fingers may rise. “

Is the famous poem written by Thaaraa Barathi which acts as a morale-booster among the unemployed youth of Tamilnadu.Most of Thaaraa Barathi’s poems have the potential to serve as a source of inspiration for its readers, irrespective

Of their age and status.

Where is our east?

Where is our dawn?

The darkness is still there;

The red sun has not yet arrived;

The day has not dawned;

We have no idea

About the eastern direction.

The time to wake up has come;

But there is no light in our area;

Unless we tear it

There will not be any dawn in the east!

Where is our east?

Where is our dawn?

Let us put a bloody tilak

Where there is darkness spread

The bloody Tilak is the red sun

Let us call it as the east!

Shout it with might!

The sun which is beyond our reach

Illuminates a part of the world and

Darkens the other part;

The shoulders of the working class

Will illuminate the whole world hereafter!

Let us call it as the east!

Shout it with might!

If all the powers were united

Then in all directions there will be sunlight

Even if we call in midnight

The sun will give light1

Let us call it as the east!

Shout it with might!

The above poem by Thaaraa Barathi, which was published under the title “This is our East”, is highly symbolic. It expresses the desire of the poet for a revolution by the working class, which will bring New Hope and life for the have-nots.

Thaaraa Barathi mingled with the masses, particularly with the younger generation and motivated them by his poems.

His poems still inspire the Tamil youth and many have achieved an upward mobility for which his poems helped as a catalyst.

He can be rightly called as “The Mayakovsky of India”.