Kumaran Asan, who passed away on 16 January 1924, was
an Indian social reformer, philosopher and poet of Malayalam literature. He is
known to have initiated a revolution in Malayalam poetry in the first quarter
of the 20th century, transforming it from the metaphysical to the lyrical and
his poetry is characterised by its moral and spiritual content, poetic
concentration and dramatic contextualisation. He is one of the modern
triumvirate poets of Kerala and a disciple of Sree Narayana Guru. He was awarded the prefix "Mahakavi" in 1922
by the Madras university which means "great poet".
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