The lines kept playing in my mind, like a song. I asked a few people, neighbors, street sellers, drivers, ‘What are you going ...

There hadn’t been a previous instance of India having to contradict a sitting US President, literally, to his face. But, the swift Indian rejection of President Donald Trump’s offer to mediate in the ...

There are also poems about the floods that happened in Kerala in 1909 ... the recent past to explore and preserve two particularly major language systems — Arabic Tamil (also known as Arwi) and Arabic ...

of Tamil.The scheming of Hindi would not work out in Tamil Nadu, the poem said. Similar sentiments were expressed in social media by common people who hit out at the bid to impose Hindi through ...

The poem appears in Arabic and Hebrew, Russian and Ukrainian, Tibetan and Mandarin, Tamil, Vietnamese, Polish, Yoruba, Yucatec Maya, and a host of other languages. It also includes QR codes that ...

The year was 1967. An anthology of Tamil poems, nearly two thousand years old, dropped into English in translation. A K Ramanujam, scholar, translator, and writer had released The Interior ...

The civil war between the government and the separatist Tamil Tigers is a haunting and continual presence. The editors spoke to Scroll about finding the poems for the anthology and why Sri Lanka o ...

Arabic Tamil and Arabic Malayalam were so popular ... including this book of Arwi poetry from 1314 (Credit: Muhammed Sulthan Baqavi) And while these fusion dialects are not spoken on a daily ...

The Arabic that the traders spoke intermingled with the local language of Tamil to create what scholars call Arabu Tamil, or Arwi. The script employs a modified alphabet of Arabic, but the actual ...

Extolling the iconic Tamil poet, he urged the people to experience every word of his, seen as a hint to the nationalistic fervour found in the verses. Modi said Bharati's poem was the country's ...

On social media, an impromptu effort translated it into dozens of languages: Spanish, Italian, Tamil, Urdu, Tagalog, Greek, Japanese, Yiddish and more. Here, we offer it in English and Arabic.