About Poem Duravastha: The connection between Savithri, a Namboothiri heiress, and Chathan, a lower caste lad, is depicted in this love story. A political commentary on Kerala in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

About Kumaran Asan: N. Kumaran Asan (കുമാരനാശാൻ) was a Malayalam poet, philosopher, and social reformer from India. His life span lasted from April 12, 1873, until January 16, 1924. He is credited with changing Malayalam poetry from philosophical to lyrical in the first part of the twentieth century, and his poetry is distinguished by its moral and spiritual substance, poetic focus, and dramatic contextualization. He is a student of Sree Narayana Guru and one of Kerala’s modern triad poets.

Subramanya Sathakam and Sankara Sathakam are two of the poet’s earliest works in which Asan expresses his spiritual ambitions. Veena Poovu (fallen flower) is one of his short poems that has become a literary classic. It opened the ground for a new literary trend in Malayalam. His elegy Prarodanam laments the loss of A. R. Raja Raja Varma, the great grammarian, who was a contemporary and friend of his. Nalini, Leela, Karuna, and Chandaalabhikshuki are among his Khanda Kavyas (poems) that have received critical praise and widespread appeal. He exhibits his lyrical skill in Chintaavishtayaaya Seetha (The Contemplative Sita), while in Duravastha, he carefully and deftly pulls down the walls erected by feudalism, orthodoxy, and casteism, and fulfills the Guru’s edict, “One Caste, One Religion, One God for man.”

He was inspired by Edwin Arnold’s Light of Asia to write the epic poem Buddha Charitha. He displayed his revolutionary fervor for combating caste inequalities while in Duravastha, and a few other lyrical works had a clear Hindu/Buddhist bent.