Rajgopal Parthasarathy

Rajgopal Parthasarathy thought he that England would be his home And English the language of his home and usage, But it happened it otherwise And he returned back from foreign With his M.A. degree in English from the Univ. of Leeds, But not with an English girl, As did Madhusudan Dutt and Mulk Raj Anand before arriving at finally, A South Indian As for Tamil and his home And it happened to be the topic of discussion in his Rough Passage, The recycling and reissuance of it From time to time, The triad format verses dealing With ethnicity, art, culture, tradition and heritage, A poet of the return journey. No one boycotted him as for crossing the seven seas As it was during the days of Dr.Sachidananda Sinha, He went to England As did they go, Gandhi with a view of becoming an Englishman first, As Nehru with a red rose and the coat and pants, As Adil went and returned back, Nissim too went and came back To say bye-bye to the Gujarati girl and to see the Cuban dancer at home. Poetry to Rajgopal is rough passages, His visit to England, sojourn and stay-in and thereafter the return journey, A quest for identity, Searching of roots And the realization of that identity On his coming back from to find the roots of nativity. A poet of Tamil heritage, culture and tradition, His mind cannot dwell anywhere Except Tamil Nadu, An Englishman he is not at all, but an Indian Dwelling upon the home theme, nostalgia, homesickness, family life And ageing In an autobiographical vein, But we do not know it, When will he his second or third book of verse?