Soman Ragavan

AnalysisByPerplexityAI-Volume 45--OnMe-21Dec2025-Batch 2

BATCH 2

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Soman Ragavan :

Here is the list of my books. (List posted)

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Perplexity AI :

Your attached list shows an exceptionally large, thematically coherent body of work that combines poetry, literary criticism, political history, security studies, environmental concern, and AI-assisted analysis into a single ongoing life‑project.List-of-my-books-21-Dec-2025.docx​

Main strands in your oeuvre

• Poetry cycles:
  • Poetical Ravings (1997; expanded 2020) and the long Poetic Visions sequence (at least 22 volumes to November 2025) document decades of poetic production, moving from personal reflection to sustained engagement with Mauritius, India, colonial history, and global crises.List-of-my-books-21-Dec-2025.docx​
  • Thematically focused collections like Poems on Covid and Poésie Rétributive show you building concentrated poetic responses to specific historical traumas and injustices.List-of-my-books-21-Dec-2025.docx​
• Analytical and historical prose:
  • Books on The MV Wakashio Case, Mauritius: Security Reviewed, Mauritius: Water Security, India and Geopolitics, and the India: Security-mindedness volumes cast you as a public intellectual using essayistic prose to assess environmental disaster, transport systems, institutional design, and strategic culture.List-of-my-books-21-Dec-2025.docx​
  • The Colonial Crimes series, Colonial Crimes – An Overview, and the multi‑part The Chagos volumes extend this into a documented indictment of empire and its legacies in the Indian Ocean, in line with your explicit interest in historical accountability.List-of-my-books-21-Dec-2025.docx​
• Short fiction and narrative:
  • Collections such as Four Short Stories, Three Short Stories, Stanfield Park, and Walls Closing In show you experimenting with prose narrative, often adjacent to your political and historical concerns, suggesting a wish to dramatise issues you also treat analytically and lyrically.List-of-my-books-21-Dec-2025.docx​

Engagement with Covid, environment, and governance

• Pandemic and public health:
  • Poems on Covid, On Covid and Pandemics, and Covid Issues together form a substantial record of how a Mauritian, Indian‑Ocean society experienced the pandemic, mixing poetic lament, policy critique, and historical memory, which is unusual in its scale for a single author.List-of-my-books-21-Dec-2025.docx​
  • These are complemented by AI commentary volumes such as 5‑Max AI on Covid Poems, indicating that you deliberately place your work into dialogue with machine reading as part of the archive of Covid writing.List-of-my-books-21-Dec-2025.docx​
• Ecology and non‑human lives:
  • Animal Lives (two volumes) and Plant Lives (two volumes) extend a Romantic‑style attentiveness to nature into an encyclopedic, almost documentary mode, in which animals and plants become ethical subjects within Mauritian and global ecosystems.List-of-my-books-21-Dec-2025.docx​
  • The Wakashio book and water‑security volume tie these interests to concrete environmental threats and infrastructure vulnerabilities in Mauritius, reinforcing a pattern where poetry, policy, and ecology are interlinked.List-of-my-books-21-Dec-2025.docx​

Colonial, legal, and constitutional focus

• Colonial crimes and Chagos:
  • The four‑volume Colonial Crimes set, the standalone Colonial Crimes – An Overview, and the four parts of The Chagos form a major historical‑legal cluster that traces dispossession, deportation, and strategic use of Indian Ocean territories by colonial powers.List-of-my-books-21-Dec-2025.docx​
  • These works suggest a method: forensic collation of facts, legal instruments, and testimonies, then moral and poetic re‑framing, which resonates with your explicitly “retributive” poetic stance.List-of-my-books-21-Dec-2025.docx​
• Mauritian institutions and politics:
  • Volumes such as On the Metro Express, The Vice Presidency, Parliament and Decorum, and Coup de Jarnac (with a separate ChatGPT on “Coup de Jarnac” volume) show you scrutinising concrete institutional arrangements, public behaviour, and political events with both legalistic and rhetorical attention.List-of-my-books-21-Dec-2025.docx​
  • Titles like Bulldozing Slums and One More Word read as interventions in live legal‑political debates, suggesting you write not only for posterity but to influence contemporary public discourse.List-of-my-books-21-Dec-2025.docx​

Meta‑literary and AI‑centred volumes

• Self‑reflection and literary criticism:
  • A Prolific Writer, My Former Website, and the Literary Visions volumes indicate a meta‑layer where you document your own output, its reception, and your reading of other works, effectively curating your oeuvre as a continuous research project. List-of-my-books-21-Dec-2025.docx​
  • Annotations and Stanfield Park reinforce this sense of a writer who revisits, comments on, and structurally organises his own production.List-of-my-books-21-Dec-2025.docx​
• AI poem analyses series:
  • The books devoted to Claude 2, Claude 3, Gemini, Blackbox, Copilot, YouChat, Deep AI, and Perplexity analyses (with multiple volumes for some systems) are, so far, unusually systematic in world literature.List-of-my-books-21-Dec-2025.docx​
  • By publishing these AI interactions as books, you treat machine readings both as criticism and as historical documents, making your poetic corpus a testing ground for how AI “understands” poetry in the 2020s.List-of-my-books-21-Dec-2025.docx​

How the list frames your profile as an author

• Across about eighty‑plus titles, your work spans lyric poetry, political essay, legal‑historical dossier, fiction, environmental writing, health advice, and machine‑assisted criticism, but the through‑lines are justice, memory, security, and the moral imagination of a small island in global systems.List-of-my-books-21-Dec-2025.docx​
• The chronology from Poetical Ravings (1997) to Poetic Visions 22 and recent AI‑analysis volumes in late 2025 shows increasing speed and thematic diversification, suggesting a late‑career surge where long‑standing concerns (colonialism, India, security, spirituality, family) crystallise into a structured, multi‑genre archive.List-of-my-books-21-Dec-2025.docx​

If you wish, the next step can be a focused mapping: for example, grouping just the poetry titles and relating each cluster (Covid, colonial crimes, Chagos, animals, plants, retributive justice) to particular Romantic/Victorian poets you studied in 1968.

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(To be continued)

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