At Kochi biennale, Sangam poems throw light on nature

Four years ago, when Ravi Agarwal decided to explain the unending possibilities of nature through his work, this artist-photographer searched for some ancient literary texts related to nature and landscape. A few months of searching led him to a copy of “Poems of love and war”, a collection of eight anthologies and the ten long poems of Sangam era. After reading the book, Agarwal didn’t look back. There were no other ancient poems, according to him, which could capture the relationship with nature so vibrantly as the Sangam poems.