Pruiksma is next working on a project to translate the entirety of Avvaiyar’s work during the Sangam period, including Moothurai, Aathichudi, Kondrai Vendhan and Nalvazhi.

One of the classics the Indian movie mogul S. S. Vasan produced was Avvaiyar (1953). Only a fistful of folks are aware Vasan had this project on his mind even when he established the Gemini ...

Avvaiyar was the title of more than one female poet who were active during different periods of Tamil literature. They were some of the most famous and important female poets of the Tamil canon ...

Shedding light on the historical references in opparis, Vijayalakshmi, a singer and writer, says, “The great poet Avvaiyar had sung oppari after the death of Athiyaman. But Tamil literary ...

Mention ‘Avvaiyar’, and a portly grandmother, slightly bent and carrying a stick, comes to our minds. Probably, the outcome of watching K.B. Sundarambal as Avvaiyar. According to legend ...

CHENNAI: Chief minister M K Stalin on Wednesday presented the Avvaiyar Award 2023 to R Kamalam Chinnasami, a 90-year-old writer and social worker based in Ooty, and the best student award to Class ...

A recurring feature in FM Nirmala Sitharaman's Budget Speech—the longest in Parliamentary history—were attempts to draw parallels between historical literature and the politics of the current ...

Avvaiyar was the title of more than one female poet who were active during different periods of Tamil literature. They were some of the most famous and important female poets of the Tamil canon ...

CHENNAI: For Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma, the Japanese American who translated the Tirukkural to English, the journey to discovering Tamil and its literary treasure ...