(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 ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Readings of ancient Tamil love poetry, translated into English by AK Ramanujan, and accompanied by ...

This is the first thought that crosses the mind when one reads Tamil love poems of the Sangam Era. The yearning, the poignant lonely heart, the fantasies of a lover longing for her significant ...

“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 ...

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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 ...

"When I first read the poems of the 'Kuruntokai', I instantly fell in love with their lyrical composition. It was so rich and beautiful that despite having no knowledge of Tamil, I decided to ...

series of reflections on my Tamil love course, with some reflections from a Christian perspective on the poetry of the 9th century south Indian Hindu saint, Shatakopan. He is one of the alvars ...

These male poets deploy the full range of archetypal female characters that populate Tamil classical love poetry – the heroine, her mother, her friend and the fortuneteller from the hills – to ...