Volume : 1, Issue : 3, August - 2012

Sri Sri And His Literary Works: Some Social Reflections

Dr. M. Sreedevi Xavier

Abstract :

This paper intends to reflect upon the Sri Sri’s great literary works mainly focusing on his scholarly works Mahaprasthanam (The Great Forward March), and Maroprasthanam (Another Forward March). The main objectives of this study are: to relate his thoughts to the then social realities; to know under what circumstances he became synonymous to Progressive and under what circumstances he identified himself to Revolutionary poets. The appropriate framework for this study had been developed on the basis of an extended critique of the available variants of the oad frame grounded in the Marxist Sociology of Literature and it is supplemented by a similar critique of the dominant frames from the domain of literary criticism, poetics and aesthetics. Sri Sri’s works clearly and categorically mirrored the then social realities with great vigor.