Writer and translator Lakshmi Holmstrom must have been feeling happy in faraway London while the Penguin book of Tamil poetry was being released. CHENNAI: Writer and translator Lakshmi Holmstrom must ...

Resistance And Devotion In The Tamil Bhakti Movement”, explores how poetry, personal devotion, and radical inclusivity ...

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 ...

Perhaps men and women loved more intensely, some hundreds of years ago? This is the first thought that crosses the mind when one reads Tamil love poems of the Sangam Era. The yearning, the poignant ...

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s poems are going to make their latest journey from Hindi to English to Tamil. NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s poems are going to make ...

CHENNAI: For centuries, works from Tamil classic literature have served as a guide to understanding the history and heritage of the land, and taken the form of a repository of aphoristic teachings and ...

SINGAPORE - A married couple has won at the same Golden Point Awards for the first time. Mr Senthilkumar Natarajan took first place in the Tamil short story category while his wife Subha Senthilkumar ...

Indian-origin Singaporean poet and writer K.T.M. Iqbal will be awarded Cultural Medallion, the country’s highest cultural award by President Tony Tan Keng Yam on Thursday night in Singapore. It is the ...