F. H. The Interior Landscape: Classical Tamil Love Poems, translated by A. K. Ramanujan The publisher New York Review Books’s poetry series has done extraordinary service to verse in translation ...

When I started reading the poems, the classical Tamil was unfamiliar ... brought out a limited-edition copy of an art book called Kurunthokai: Love. Loss. Landscapes consisting of 30 poems ...

Author Nirmala Lakshman first fell in love with literature ... been fascinated with poetry from her childhood and dove into the world of Tamil verse while researching her book.

“Instead of pontificating on ‘how one ought to love’, the text ... years ago, “The Book of Desire” and Tamil Sangam literature, the most ancient poem cycles to be found in Tamil writing ...

He is described as someone who “writes in English and Tamil ... a poem addressing the children with just 16 stanzas, first published in 1915 — teaches the values of love for all beings ...

Kwame Alexander's latest book pulls at the heartstrings. It's called Why Fathers Cry at Night, and its rawness is so poignant that Alexander fretted over its very publication. He told NPR that he ...

The recently released Samakaala Malayala Kavithaigal, a Tamil translation of veteran Malayalee poet Sugatha Kumari’s first compilation of poems, garnered much attention at the Chithirai Book ...

“We are very proud of having a leader who is such a great poet,” said Minister of Defence Nirmala Sithraman on Friday at the launch of the book ... s poems translated into Tamil by Dr ...