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 ...

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 ...

Perundevi, in conversation with Bogan Sankar on “How Modern is Modern Tamil Poetry?” at The Hindu Lit for Life 2025, touched upon the emergence of modernism. She said though it was difficult to define ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Lt Governor K Kailashnathan and Chief Minister N Rangasamy led tributes to Tamil poet Subramania Bharathi on his 104th death anniversary. Ceremonies included homage at the poet's statue and portrait, ...