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 ...

A recent book carnival in the city celebrated literature and self-expression, drawing book enthusiasts, poets, and performers ...

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.

Thus begins Arundhathi Subramaniam’s new book of poetry, Love Without a Story ... “Avaiyyar”, “the legendary wise woman of Tamil literature” sighs with the knowledge that “little ...

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 Conversation) — Valentine’s Day often revives attention on romantic themes in literature. Stories are cited in media with the aim of helping people navigate the demands of the human heart ...

Stella, a shopper, shared her tearful reaction on X after stumbling upon the book 'Love Poems by Women' at a thrift store, which contained a touching message from 1997. In a poetic retort ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Most people think that love poems belonging to the Sangam Age are based on rigid grammar. But that’s not true,” said Tamil scholar Dr Avvai Natarajan. He was speaking on ...