She was 8 months in the family way when she finalised the draft of her poetry collection. The ‘champaka’ tree in front of Nayanathara’s home in Thiruvananthapuram was in full bloom, spreading it’s effervescent fragrance.
“It was the fragrance that I revelled in all through my growing up years. And the flowers had again blossomed as if to celebrate the arrival of my son. So that is how I wrote the title poem,” says Nayanathara. Her soon-to-be-released collection is named ‘Scent of Frangipani’, frangipani being ‘champaka’, the flower with the heady fragrance that has stirred creative souls before like Madhavikkutty’s.
The book, dedicated to her one-year-old son Abhinav has 43 poems in all. One comes across musings on the simple joys of life like the view from the balcony of her home which Nayanathara chooses to call as ‘Glimpses of paradise’.
Full report here New Indian Express
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