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Vishnu Narayanan Namboothiri’s Balyakala Sakhi reached out to many through G. Venugopal’s voice
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Vishnu Narayanan Namboothiri’s Balyakala Sakhi reached out to many through G. Venugopal’s voice
Purists may not agree, but poetry can also be enjoyed when it is accompanied by music. Vishnu Narayanan Namboothiri certainly enjoyed listening to one of his early poems,
Balyakala Sakhi, in G. Venugopal s gentle voice, set to lilting music by Suresh Manimala.
Venugopal included it in his first album of poems,
Kavyaragam. “I think
Balyakala Sakhi is now the most popular of all Namboothiri’s poems because so many people listened to the album, and we all know that very few actually spend time to read poetry,” he told