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 ...

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 ...

Written as obituaries, reviews, prefaces to books and columns, this book makes the ‘characters’ dance on the stage of modern Tamil history. Non-Brahmin movement The century-old non-Brahmin ...

There is no logic except what the editor has made of the assignment to collate the greatest Tamil stories ever told. And the editor’s rationale rings in the foreword: the stories provide the ...