See how one homesick scholar put together a massive compendium of verse by former emperors, modern-day activists, soldiers, sages and Nobel winners.

Lines from Sangam poems displayed alongside excavated artefacts in the Keeladi museum. (Express photo by Adrija Roychowdhury) Experts say that in Tamil consciousness, the Sangam corpus holds the same ...

The oldest Tamil literature, known today as Sangam poetry, is over two thousand years old. This vast corpus is the first great body of secular poetry written in India.

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 ...

Society Love and longing from long ago The lyrical beauty of Sangam era poems gets new life in Suchitra Ramachandran’s translations and illustrations Updated - April 29, 2016 07:07 pm IST - Chennai ...

The finds from the digs provide “much-needed evidence” that the flourishing trade, culture and cosmopolitan lifestyle described expansively in the 2,381 poems by 473 poets of the Sangam ...

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 ...