At the Sahitya Akademi's literary conference, writers including Anuja Chandramouli and Thamizhachi Thangapandian discussed ...

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 ...

Kalki , Gowri Ramnarayan (Translator ) Publisher: Penguin Price: Rs 799/- Ancient scriptures and epics showcase a nation's ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.