Poems & Haiku – By Thanges
Translated from the Tamil by Rajesh Subramanian
1.
Even while I was just watching,
A falling bright star
comes and falls into my palm
as a word.
What am I...
A Way of Life – By Poomani
Translated by Padma Narayanan
They decided to do just that.
The three rolled on the ground by the shadow of the tree beside the brook. The...
The Cart Track – By Ayyanar Edadi
Translated from the Tamil by Padma Amarnaath
The sun began to rise. It slowly ripened, warming the east with its heat. Velu and Chellaiah worked...
Wound – By Ayyanar Edadi
Translated from the Tamil by Padma Amarnaath
Moovelu was busy in the seedling nursery, stamping over oleander paste mixed with manure. Cranes were happily showering...
Masterly! – An Interview with Jeyamohan
Interviewed by K.S. Dileepan
Photographs by Sundar Ram Krishnan
Interview Questions - Suneel Krishnan, Dileepan and Peru Vishnukumar
Biography - Suchitra R
Translated from the Tamil by...
Birds and Beasts : Codes / Symbols in the Scheme of Sangam Love...
By Govindaswamy Rajagopal
Present-day man has become absolute mechanical and obsessed with material gratification. Up till the period of industrialization, evidently he lived ‘the natural...
Landscape in Sangam Literature – By Dr.P.Aruna Devi
Poetry is a literary art that reflects human life in an aesthetic way. It deals with many concepts like love, war, truth, happiness, frustrations,...
Poetry in a Landscape -The World of Sangam Literature
The magical word Sangam conjures up the golden age of Tamil literature, that lost paradise of Dravidian culture. It calls to mind the myth of...
Poems & Haiku – By Thanges
Translated from the Tamil by Rajesh Subramanian
1.
Even while I was just watching,
A falling bright star
comes and falls into my palm
as a word.
What am I...
Poems by Thanges
Translated from the Tamil by Rajesh Subramanian
1.
You've been enquiring unendingly
during our phone conversations
if you had left behind anything here
when had you moved to your...
Poems by Maharasan
Translated from the Tamil by Padma Amarnaath
Translator's note: His poetic work draws from the ancient concept of Ainthinai-the five landscapes depicted in the Tamil...
Translating a Tamil poem – Lakshmi Holmström
Literal translation of R. Cheran - ‘I could forget all this...’
Everything can be forgotten;
this life, wretched and helpless,
refusing to abandon,
with an instant’s spark of...
The Relation of Tamil and Western Literatures – K. Kailasapathy
Source: The Indian Review of World Literature in English, Vol. 2, No.II – Jul, 2006
( Speech delivered under the auspices of the Dept. of...
