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V. Vijayakumar

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‘the absent color’ mapping the contours of ‘a nil’ world a trial for imagination

‘The Absent Color’: Mapping the Contours of ‘A Nil’ World, a Trial for Imagination

When the poet writes his name in English as “a/nil”, he abandons all valour, heroism, and hierarchical symbols of power embodied in language and appears before us as a/nil, a/void, in the lowercase, bare, unassertive, claiming nothing.