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Keeladi is a small town located about 12 km southeast of Madurai in Sivaganga district on the banks of the river Vaigai.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
CHENNAI: The roar of construction machinery and the cacophony of city life were a constant backdrop to S Narayanan’s days. He ...
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 ...