G. P. Rajarathnam (1909–1979), popularly known as Rajaratnam, was a Kannada writer and poet.
G.P. Rajarathnam was from Gundlupet a town in chamrajnagar
district, Karnataka. His ancestors are from Tirukkanapur Agrahara of Naga city
in TamilNadu. They came to mysore in 1906.
G. P. Rajarathnam wrote many books, but he is best known for
his work Ratnana Padagalu, which deals with life as seen through the eyes of
Yendkuduka Ratna (Drunkard Ratna). Ratnana Padagalu has been popularized by
well-known Kannada singers, and it is still appreciated and admired. Many Kannada movie songs are taken from Ratnana Padagalu.
He wrote poems for children which were called Kannada
Nursery Rhymes.[citation needed] K. S. Nissar Ahmed, a prominent poet, said
that Rajarathnam understood the minds of children, as well as what they
needed. Some of the rhymes are "Naayi Mari", "Taata butti
tumba rotti", "Putaani Krishna", "Haavu bantu haavu
bantu", "Kuri mari byaa", "Namma maneyalondu sanna
paapa", KANDANA KAAVYA MAALE etc. Mysore Ananthaswamy and his son Raju Ananthaswami have
composed many songs written by G.P. Rajarathnam.
According to Rajarathnam himself, he had no intention of
writing poems for children. But once, he found himself jobless
after doing his MA, and stood in for his ailing father who was a Kannada
teacher in a school. He was quite distressed to see the kind of poems in the
Kannada syllabus for such small children. That evening, while he was sitting
and thinking, a poem, "Bannada tagadina tutturi", came to him without
his bidding. He was thrilled with it, and taught it to his students the next
day, who loved it too. He then went around teaching it to all the children he
knew, until finally, it came to a publisher's notice, who asked him to write a
few more poems and published his first collection of children's songs.
References:
1. Modern Indian literature, an anthology 2. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi. 1992. p. 645. ISBN 1992 Check |isbn= value (help). Retrieved 2010-01-02.
2."25 works of children's writer G.P. Rajarathnam released". The Hindu. 2008-03-22. Archived from the original on 2010-01-02. Retrieved 2010-01-02.
3."Create awareness on importance of reading books". The Hindu. 2007-07-09. Archived from the original on 2010-01-02. Retrieved 2010-01-02.
Popular songs:
- Bannada tagadina tuttoori kaasige kondanu kastoori..Children Poem(Kannada Rhymes)
- Beldingal raatrili ee jodi battandre eechlenda chaldange neppaitade..
- Bhoomin tabbid moda iddange....
- Brahma ninge jodistini Henda muttid kainaa...
- Chaddi giddi HaakkonDu...
- E byevarsi nan putnanjina roopanaaditin baa...
- Helkollok Ondooru talemyale ondsooru...
- Henda hedti kannada padagolu andre ratnang Praana..
- Kahiyaad Oushdi Kudiyonange Mukaanyaake sinDarstiya...
- Kudkara mahtva tilkoldene...
- Mooga adang aagti naanu nan putnanji nakkre...
- Nannedti nuggidlu jebig kai haakidlu muniyanna hendak-kaasillaa...
- Nanagunu Hendakku bal bale dosti ....
- Nayi mari nayi mari tindi beke... Children Poem(Kannada Rhymes)
- Tik-Tik Gadiyaarada Sadagara..Children Poem(Kannada Rhymes)
- Yenda mutdaaglella yaako.. kusiyaaytaite..(Raju Anantswamy
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