Modern Tamil literature has the resonance and power of words that the Sangam literature possessed, according to George L. Hart, Professor of Tamil language, University of California, Berkeley ...

Writer R.K. Narayan once said he was never aware that he was using a different, foreign language because English came to him very easily. In a way, his statement is applicable to some of the great ...

Tamil literary works have always found a readership ... days of television until the 1990s saw the emergence of many new modern Tamil writers and a variety of genres. From detective novellas ...

Pudhumaipithan’s legacy turned out to be his body of writing, particularly short stories, that gave him the posthumous reputation of a titanic figure of modern Tamil literature ” ‘Rajamukthi ...

Beyond literature, Ramakrishnan also helped run ... “For half a century he was the living heart of modern Tamil. He discovered and published the finest writers, meticulously edited their works ...

The brahmins were primarily the flag bearers of the little magazine movement — the womb of modern Tamil literature. The Dravidian political ideology was anti-brahmin and the brahmins ditched the ...

it signified that the novel contains a value which was far above the rest of modern Tamil literature. A low-caste writer achieving this recognition is a rare honour. This translation opens up an ...

In The Coming Age, published by Penguin Modern Classics, edited and presented by his great-granddaughter Mira T Sundara Rajan, we get access to the Tamil literary icon’s original English writings.

It also includes important works in ancient, medieval, and modern Tamil literature and the various forms of writing used by Tamil writers. The paper has to be written in the Tamil script.

Cutler, who had been at the University for 25 years, is renowned for his work in medieval Indian literature. Cutler specialized in pre-modern Tamil, which differs greatly from the modern language ...