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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...