KANNADASAN[Unakkaaga Naan] iraivan ulagathai padaithaana..

Movie: Unakkaaga Naan
Poet: Kannadasan
Singer: Yesudas
Music: M.S Viswanathan
Song Sequence: (1)-(1)-(2)-(2)- (3)-(3)-(4)-(1)-(5)-(5)-(6)-(1)-(7)

(1)iraivan ulagathai padaithaanaa,ezhmaiyai avan thaan padaithaanaa, 

did God create this “world”?
did he create “Poverty” too?

(2)ezhaiyai padaiththavan avan endraal,
iraivan enbavan edharkkaaga,

if he were the person who created the “poor”,
what is the need of such a God,

(3)ponnagai anindha maaligaigal,
punnagai marandha man kudisai,

one one hand, we have the bungalows adorned with all the gold,
and on the other hand we have the mud house which has forgotten to smile,
(what a contrast life is!)

(4)pasi vara ange maathiraigal,
pattiniyaal ingu yaathiraigal, 

in the rich man’s house, people take pills to become hungry!
on the other side, due to hunger, people make expeditions (taking great pains to feed themselves)!

(5)uyare parakkum kaathaadi,
udhavum ezhai nool pole,

the rich are like the high flying kites,
and the poor who help them are like the string attached to it

(6)pattam polavar palapalappaar nool pole ivar ilaithiruppaar,
iru ver iyakkam idhuvendraal iraivan enbavan edharkaaga, 

the rich, like the kite, are pompous and attractive; the poor grow lean like the string attached to the kite,
if these are two separate groups, what is the need of “God”,

(7)iraivan inge varavillai enave naan angu pogindren,
varumai muzhuvadhum theerndha pinne marupadi oru naal naan varuven,

the “God” never came here (to the poor man’s rescue), hence I am going to him (I am going to die),
once poverty is eliminated, I will come back (I will be reborn).