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 which shone bright in a Mani Ratnam film is the song Narumugaye from Iruvar (1997), which drew inspiration from ...

As Sangam poetry is often identified with Tamil centres such as Madurai and Kanchi, historians hardly used this literature for the study of South India except Tamil Nadu and Kerala to an extent ...

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

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 ...

Writer and translator Lakshmi Holmstrom must have been feeling happy in faraway London while the Penguin book of Tamil poetry was being released.

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

Razak has several volumes of poems in free verse to his credit, one of which had won the Lankan Sahithya Award.