Drenched by the Sun

DRENCHED BY THE SUN   I, who prophesy by reading the stars and the wind, now think of that country … - excerpt from poem ‘Green Sun’     Syam Sudhakar ‘has an eye for the strange and the uncanny and a way of building translucent metaphors,’ according to leading South Indian poet, K. Satchidanandan.   Sudhakar’s poetry draws on his cultural roots in Kerala as well as the splendor of its natural habitat. Palms, green paddy fields, mountain country, tropical downpours, the sun,