Vairamuthu was born to Ramaswamythevar and Angammal of Mettur in a middle-class family. When he was four, the village gave way to Vaigai Dam and the family moved to Vadugapatti village, a farming community in Theni near Periyakulam.
The ambience of the village is said to have inspired him to write poems. According to him, Tamil and Rationalist movements of the sixties stimulated his poetic zeal. The speeches of Periyar & Anna, the writings of Karunanidhi and the works of eminent poets like Bharathi, Bharathidasan and Kannadasan and the life in the countryside shaped the young poet's thinking. At the age of fourteen, he was inspired by Thiruvalluvar's Thirukkural to write a Venba compilation of poetry, strictly adhering to the Yappu grammar rules of Tamil poetry.
He joined Pachaiyappa's college in Chennai where he was acclaimed as the best speaker and poet. While in his second year of B. A. and barely nineteen years of age, Vairamuthu published his maiden anthology Vaigarai Megangal. It was prescribed for study in Women's Christian College. Thus, he achieved the distinction of a student poet whose work was taken into the curriculum while he was still a student.
His second work, Thiruththi Yezhudhiya Theerpugal, in pudhu kavidhai (free verse) form was published in 1979. He made his film debut in the succeeding year when he set lyrics for Bharathiraja's Nizhalgal.
தமிழ் கவிகளுக்கு எப்போதும் ஒரு கெட்டப்பெயர் உண்டு - அதாவது, தமிழ் நாட்டுக்குள்ளேயே இருந்துக்கொண்டு, தமிழைப் பற்றியே புகழ்ந்து கொண்டிருப்பார். உலகம் அறியாமல் உளறிக்கொண்டிருப்பர்கள்! இதை பொய்யாக்கி வைரமுத்து அவர்கள், தன் ரஷ்ய பயணத்தை எழுதி இருக்கின்றார்.
Vadukapatti mudhal volgo varai by #vairamuthu . . As I have recently read #volgo mudhal gangai varai , I was intrigued with this book title and took it with me during book fair without second thoughts.. And I was not disappointed. It's vairamuthu how can it go wrong.. . . It's about vairamuthu's #sovietunion cultural trip during 1987 .. If we visit a place we just look for famous spots , roam about, eat the foods of the place, take a bag load of pics and return back with memories that eventually fade away with time, but when a poet like vairamuthu visits a place the outcome is a book which stands tested with time and helps thousands of people visit Russia through his eyes.. . . This book is just like a diary in which he jolts down the starch contrasts he observes anything and everything between the communist society and ours.. . . He captures everything about the country, the people, their abodes, the white nights, Statues.. I was so stroked with his experiences with myshkin museum .. . . ❤️❤️❤️❤️... . . So it's a short (85page) ,page turner and good travel read ..
எம் வடுகபட்டியில் இருந்து புறப்பட்டு வால்கா வரை சென்று தமிழின் பெருமையை தெளித்த உன் புத்தகத்தை வாசித்து முடித்தும் மீண்டும் வாசிக்க தொடர தோன்றுவதுயேனோ???? ❤