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Love songs in Hindu devotion – the Tamil poets who took on the female voice to express their intense longing for the divine
The earliest bhakti poems were composed in Tamil, a classical Indian language, in praise of the two great gods of Hinduism — Shiva and Vishnu. While the poet-devotee adopts many attitudes in ...
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Poetry from the hills
Thilakarajah first started writing poetry in school. He encountered Velupillai’s work in his Tamil literature syllabus and ...
Author Nirmala Lakshman to speak on Tamil poetry from the Sangam age and a history of Tamil people on February 11
Author Nirmala Lakshman explores Sangam poetry and Tamil history in a conversation at The Purple Turtles on February 11.
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Nirmala Sitharaman balances large doses of Tamil with a Kashmiri poem and Kalidas’ Raghuvamsam
She also read verses of Tamil saint Avvayyar ... She quoted a Kashmiri poem by Sahitya Academy winner Pandit Deenanath Kaul -- which compares India to a lotus on Dal Lake in Srinangar.