CHENNAI: Tamil literature scholar S Raghuraman wears another hat. He is a resource person for Bharatnatyam dancers, providing them lyrics and songs for their performances. He culls poems from ...

The earlier example of Sangam poetry in the Rahman-Vairamuthu combination ... Now, every day, with each new post/verse, it’s like a flower blooming! To read and understand Tamil poems in ...

Now that Tamil Sangam poetry has won a place alongside these world classics, it is imperative that it should get translated more and more into the leading languages of the world to sustain its status.

I realised I was in the Kurinji land of Tamil Sangam poetry. Sangam is a collection of literature from South India. AK Ramanujan writes about Sangam literature thus, "In their antiquity and in ...

I’m still continuing to translate and illustrate Sangam Tamil poems, but I have also been translating contemporary Tamil short stories and poems into English as well. Published - April 25, 2016 ...

Writer and translator Lakshmi Holmstrom must have been feeling happy in faraway London while the Penguin book of Tamil poetry was being released. CHENNAI: Writer and translator Lakshmi Holmstrom ...

COLOMBO: Abdul Karim Abdul Razak is an oddity. This Urdu-speaking Memon Muslim from what is now Pakistan, is a leading light in Tamil literary circles in Sri Lanka as a poet and writer! Tall and ...

The year was 1967. An anthology of Tamil poems, nearly two thousand years old, dropped into English in translation. A K Ramanujam, scholar, translator, and writer had released The Interior ...

Sangam literature comprises some of the earliest writings in Tamil, including a book on grammar and anthologies of poetry. To set up the Harvard Tamil Chair, the doctors need to raise a minimum of ...