Hiroshima remembered

     A summary for the poem 'Hiroshima remembered' written by K. Satchidanandan..

America dropped the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945.it resulted in the death of more than a lakh people. In many parts of the world,Hiroshima day is observed to commemorate that event on August 6th,every year
Chernobyl is a city In northern Ukraine, which Was part of the U. S.S.R. in 1986 a nuclear disaster took place there. It is considered to be the deadliest nuclear power plant accident in history
Sachidanandan wrote this poem with the purpose of rousing the conscience of mankind against such disaster. The poem is uttered by grass the silent witness to murderous crimes.
When the bomb we dropped on Hiroshima death descended like spring in the valley with the light of a million sun's. The city is full of charcoal,ashes,an orchard of skulls and burnt kimonos dripping breast milk and blood. There lay the tiny shoes of children who fell dead on the steps. Darling dolls lay charred on the floor. Fingers that had woven clothes and bread remained stuck to the stilled machines.  Singers and dancers were struck down.  Cherry blossom's dissolved in the heat of the blazing summer.  Everything seemed melted.
The scenes in Chernobyl were equally heart-rending. There, death did not come bloody like the knife thrower. Neither did it come dressed like a gentleman.  The bitter sun of Hiroshima descended again like the explosion that gave birth to our earth.  The disaster came one mid-summer night during a festival time. The singers and dancers became still.  Mothers were seen running with their burning children,still Born's on white beds, tomato fields red with human blood,  dead birds fell from trees. Honey tasted bitter,and pollen and snow became black.  Everything was deathly.
Sachidanans poem "Hiroshima remembered "is dedicated to the people of Peringome, a village near Kannur. The poets outcry against the nuclear disasters in Hiroshima and Chernobyl is rooted in his desire to avert such tragedies in future.  The extortion of the dying earth the smell and rhythm of life is a positive note.
In the concluding part of the poem Sachidanandan exhorts us to wake up and save the world from the atomic eclipse. The poet exhorts the brave peasants to rise up and express their protest against massacres like those happened in Hiroshima and Chernobyl. He exhorts the peasants to rise up and work hard to make the earth green and lush again. Let the plants bloom and the rhythm of Nature restored. Let us not be crushed by the atomic eclipse, and let us hold aloft the triumphant flag of life.