Keeladi is a small town located about 12 km southeast of Madurai in Sivaganga district on the banks of the river Vaigai.

The ‘rediscovery’ of Sangam literature and how it became a source of Tamil history and archaeology Though Sangam literature is deeply intertwined with Tamil consciousness, it was only in the late 19th ...

CHENNAI: The roar of construction machinery and the cacophony of city life were a constant backdrop to S Narayanan’s days. He ...

The poems also give us a window into an ancient Indian culture which predates Sanskrit influence. By the nineteenth century general knowledge of the Sangam tradition had largely faded.

Currently, Kumar heads Bharathi Tamil Sangam, the oldest and largest Tamil association in Kolkata. Despite being immersed in Tamil culture, Kumar says his Bengali identity is as strong as his Tamil ...

Perhaps men and women loved more intensely, some hundreds of years ago? This is the first thought that crosses the mind when one reads Tamil love poems of the Sangam Era. The yearning, the ...

There are other links to literature. A Sangam poem, Kalithogai, describes a “woman as excited as getting a ten (on dice) when her man appears on the pearl-like sand”.