BHARATHIYAR

INTRODUCTION
Bharathiyar (1882–1921) was a great personality
who was specialized in diversified fields such as
writing texts, composing poems, publishing
journals and participating in the freedom fighting
movement etc. He was an expert in writing Tamil
poems, and due to that he had been awarded the
title "Mahakavi Bharathi". He lived a simple life,
and contains very good features, and though he
was an intelligent person, he spent his life in
poverty, till the end of his life. He was interested in
spirituality, and used to frequently visit the temples
and worship the deities. His birth name was
Chinnaswami Subramania Bharathi.
He was born in the present day Thoothukudi in the
year 1882 in a pious Brahmin family. After
completing his education in his native place, he
worked under various newspaper agencies. Due to
his active participation in the freedom fighting
movement, he shifted to Pondicherry, and he lived
there until 1918.

Apart from Tamil language, he was an expert in

other regional languages also. His songs are
highly memorable, and easy to understand, and
still praised by the old and new age people, for the
meaningful lyrics. His famous lyric is “IF EVEN A
SINGLE PERSON STARVES WITHOUT FOOD.
COME LET US DESTROY THE ENTIRE
WORLD”. “தனி ஒரு மனிதனுக்கு உணவில்லை எனில்
இந்த ஜகத்தினை அழித்திடுவோம்”.
His other famous lyric is “HEY, DEATH GOD
YAMA COME IN FRONT OF ME! I WILL KICK
YOU”.
“காலா!உனை நான் சிறு புல்லென மதிக்கிறேன்; என்தன்
காலருகே வாடா! சற்றே உனை மிதிக்கிறேன்”.
He met Sister Nivedita, Swami Vivekananda's
disciple, and through her insistence, he
wrote about the rights of the women in his
magazine. He also considered that all the women
are the incarnations of Mata Shakti Devi, and gave
much respect to them.
He was arrested several times, by the British
soldiers, and later got released by them. During
the year 1921, while he was visiting the
Parthasarathy Temple, Triplicane, he was attacked
by the temple elephant, and even after getting
admitted in the hospital, after a few months his
health condition was worsened, and he died on 11
September 1921. He spent his last   years of his
life in a house in Triplicane, Chennai. The house
was named as Bharati Illam and opened for public
view.
Let us praise the great poet.
“JAI SRI SUBRAMANIA BHARATI”
“JAI HIND”
“VANDE MATHARAM”
WRITTEN BY
R.HARISHANKAR