Political leaders across India pay tribute to Mahakavi Subramania Bharathi on his 143rd birth anniversary, celebrating his ...

Pawan Kalyan pays tribute to Tamil poet Subramaniya Bharathiyar on his birth anniversary, advocating for his recognition with ...

Through the Kashi Tamil Sangamam, which was launched in 2022 as part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, the government aims to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...