About Deebachelvan

Poet Deebachelvan has emerged as a significant voice highlighting the plights of the Tamils in Today's Eelam. He is one of the important poets of Eelam. He depicts the war-ridden life of the Tamils with shells pouring from above day and night in the Sri Lankan soil, in a very poignant manner, being there right in the midst of it all, experiencing the miserable life of the hapless Tamil population in the Island.

The sufferings and hardships that the Tamils plunged all too deep in a life of violence, discriminations and uncertainties , their extensive loss and miseries that are hidden from the world's knowledge and purview and the innumerable cold-blooded murders, shielded from the world's eyes are being recorded with a sincerity and seriousness that make his poems and interviews stand apart. The cruel State-sponsored genocide in Sri Lanka is shown in raw flesh and blood in his poems which give a graphic description of the extensive destruction inflicted on the Tamils.

The main reason for Deebachelvan’s poems to be so powerful and poignant could be his life in Eelam, witnessing the horror and sorrow from close quarters. This proximity has raised his poems from being empty rhetoric to powerful and poetic documentation of all that is going on in the Island.

Apart from poems he is revealing his skill and expertise in other fields too, such as painting, photography, writing critical reviews, using all his talents and potentials towards creating the much-needed awareness about the hardships that the Tamils of Sri Lanka are undergoing.

His poems have been published in two volumes and have won wide-acclaim.

His blogspot (http://www.deebam.blogspot.com/ / http://www.edeebam.blogspot.com/ ) is also giving a true and graphic picture of the miserable life of the Tamils in the island.

Written by Latha Ramakrishnan