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Self-Portrait (1983) |
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| Age: | 63 years old |
| Sex: | Male |
| Location: | Paris/Singapore |
| Country: |  France |
| Height: | 5' 8" |
| BodyType: | Average |
| Zodiac: |  Pisces (Feb 19 - Mar 20) |
| Last Login: | Dec 21, 2007 (290 days back) |
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About Me |
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GOPALA VIPINA CHANDRAN NAIR Singaporean poet, writer & painter living in France (Retired UN Civil Servant and Mediator of UNESCO) CHANDRAN NAIR was born in Kerala, South India in 1945. He left India for Singapore with his mother Bhargavi Pillai at the age of seven. His father. Villayil Raman Gopala Pillai who wrote short stories and novels in Malayalam under the pen name of Njekkad, (their ancestral village) had migrated to Singapore in 1947. In 1973 Chandran Nair married Ivy Goh Pek Kien and they have three daughters Radha, Meera and Chandrika. He was educated at Raffles Institution and the University of Singapore from which he holds a Masters in Science ( Marine Biology) and a Diploma in Fisheries (with distinction) but went into publishing on his graduation and worked as an international civil servant with UNESCO , first in Karachi (1981-1985) and then in Paris (1985 - 2004). As an United Nations specialist in book development he has travelled widely within Asia, Africa, Europe, the Caribbean and Latin America. He has also been a print and audio-visual journalist (with the Straits Times in Malaysia and Radio and Television Singapore, respectively) as well as a TV script writer. He started writing at an early age (inspired by his father who had a wide circle of literary friends even when the family lived in a tiny Improvement Trust flat in the heart of the biggest gangster area of Singapore) and his first poems were published in his school magazine The Rafflesian in 1963. His first book of poems, Once the Horsemen and Other poems was published in 1972 and was well received as was his second collection After the Hard Hours, This Rain (1975) and he has co-translated with Malcolm Koh Ho Ping the Poems and Lyrics of the last Lord Lee ,the last Emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty. He also won the The New Nation Singapore Short Story Writing contest in 1973 with Leta and has published his stories in Short Stories From Africa and Asia (which he co-edited with Theo Luzuka), Commentary, Singapore Writing , Singapore Short Stories (Vol. 1) edited by Robert Yeo and also in translation in Malay in Cerpen cerpen Asean (Dewan Bhasa dan Pustaka). He was founder President of the Society of Singapore Writers from 1976 to 1981, when he left Singapore to take up a post with UNESCO in Karachi. While in Karachi he participated in stage drama and poetry sessions and also started painting . His interest in drama goes back to his secondary school days and the obligatory annual Shakespeare production that was staged for the public. He has acted, directed and produced and was also active in stage lighting. He directed Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot for the University of Singapore Society in 1972 and Huis Clos (In Camera) by Jean-Paul Sartre for the Alliance Francaise in Karachi in 1982. Since moving to Paris he has continued painting and writing but has not published though he has been included in a number of anthologies including Calling of the Kindred (Cambridge Universities Press, 1993), and has been featured in Reworlding (an anthology reviewing the writing of expatriate Indians). He is also included in Idea to Ideal, FirstFruits,Singapore 2004 - 12 Singapore poets on the writing of their poems(edited by Felix Cheong) and in Journeys : An Anthology of Singapore Poetry. Mediators of Unesco (May 2006) Again Thinking (my blog) ~ Ivy Goh Nair & Friends (My wife's Website) ~ Chandrannair.Tk (My Website) ~ My Wife's Blog |
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My Interests |
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| books, art, poetry, cooking,golf... -Some of my Paintings- |
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I'd like to meet:Other poets, writers, artists, golfers. . . |
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Music:music of the 70's and early 80's, like Crosby Still Nash & Young and the Beatles. . . |
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Movies:not much of a movie fan |
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Television:sports programmes(from football to poker), old detective series dubbed in french!. . . |
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Books:A wide variety (the house is full of them) |
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Heroes:Achilles |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| MaritalStatus: | Married |
| Ethnicity: | Asian |
| SexualOrientation: | Straight |
| Hometown: | Njekkad |
| Religion: | Hindu |
| Children: | Proud parent |
| Education: | Post grad |
| Occupation: | Retired UN civil servant & Mediator of Unesco |
My Pictures |
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My Blog |
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Musings on Loss |
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Loss is and always will be part of the human condition. How we deal with loss will depend in the end on our formative upbringing (our education as the French would put it) and our capacity to a... Posted by vipina on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 07:58:00 PST |
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Sadness Unending |
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| Sadness Unending
There are moments in life when sadness overwhelms you, becomes sadness unending.You wonder at the unfairness of it all and fall into the why me? mode, till you remember you have been... Posted by vipina on Mon, 05 Jun 2006 01:52:00 PST |
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Drowning in Questions of our Own |
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| These days it is difficult to not lament the human condition. But then it must have always been so - a distant ancestor probably stood leaning on the wall of his cave looking out over the plain la... Posted by vipina on Fri, 26 May 2006 06:27:00 PST |
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Picking Flowers |
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| Picking FlowersFlowers symbolize beauty and softness and gardens; the peace and bounty of a higher power in some religions. We, however, tend to speak of nature in the past tense these days.Yet the en... Posted by vipina on Mon, 15 May 2006 10:48:00 PST |
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What a Poem Is |
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| What A Poem Is
If I remember correctly, Aristophanes in The Frogs makes a character state that it is the poets who must save the nation because they embody all wisdom. In anot... Posted by vipina on Wed, 10 May 2006 01:29:00 PST |
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Musings on Armistice Day |
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| Remembering Our Dead
Sixty one years after the end of the second world war, the number of those who personally lived through or fought is diminishing to vanishing point. But memories are kept alive i... Posted by vipina on Mon, 08 May 2006 09:27:00 PST |
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Ceremonial Destruction |
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| Many years ago I wrote articles, a poem and spoke against the Vietnam War. As a student leader it was normal to do so with feeling.I have not written against the Iraq war, even though I have very stro... Posted by vipina on Thu, 04 May 2006 11:50:00 PST |
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My Friends |
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meera, ivy, Rika, Radha, Richard Staines, H, papertiger media, XRey, Lord Benjamin, bornvenus, Katrina
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