In one of his oft-quoted poems, Rudyard Kipling brings out the point that East is East, West is West; Nether the twain shall meet. Should it be so for literary works also? As the cultural diffusion ...

She also explained how modern Tamil poetry has turned its attention to small objects, events, and phenomena. In supporting her point of view, she cited C. Mani and Devadachan, among others. She also ...

Author Nirmala Lakshman first fell in love with literature from the Sangam Age — a period in ancient South India that lasted from approximately 300 BCE to 300 AD — when she read poet AK Ramanujan’s ...

For Malaiyaha Tamil poetry, context – not imagination – is everything. Mylvaganam Thilakarajah’s office is a testament to this. Surrounded by books on the history and literature of the hill country ...

Visually challenged literature students interested in ancient Tamil poetry will soon be able to read and enjoy its richness without any help. It plans to give it to the visually challenged students ...

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 Landscape, ...

A cricket victory parade dictated by flight schedules, a cinema star’s appearance to a movie premiere unreported to police, a ...

Out of Sri Lanka: Tamil, Sinhala and English Poetry from Sri Lanka and its DiasporasEdited by Vidyan Ravinthiran, Seni Seneviratne, Shash Trevett.Penguin Random House.Pages 424. Rs 599 The first-ever ...

Ilango Krishnan might not be new to the world of poetry and literature, but lyric writing is an avenue he never broached... until an opportunity came his way from ace filmmaker Mani Ratnam for ...