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A portrait of Vallalar, born Chidambaram Ramalingam on October 5, 1823.

The saint, the song, and the social revolution

A new music project titled Anbenum Peruveli radically reinterprets the work of the 19th-century Tamil poet-prophet in the year of his bicentenary.

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KLF: It happens only in Kerala

On the staggering diversity of the Kerala Literature Festival.

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India at 75 - Non-fiction

Pivotal books that shaped the course of India’s cultural and intellectual life.

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The way of all flesh

This novel remarkably conflates sexuality and spirituality in a strait-laced Brahmin society of the Thanjavur of yore.

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Gayfest: Book guide

A few books that enable a deeper understanding of difference and diversity in India.

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‘In Defiance, Our Stories: Short Fiction By Dalit Writers’ translated by Malini Seshadri and V. Ramakrishnan (Vitasta, 2022)

Book Review: Translation initiative takes Tamil literature to the world

An eclectic, equal-opportunity offering of fiction, poetry and literary non-fiction marks the second phase of the Tamil Nadu Textbook and Educational

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Thi Janakiraman (1921-1982).

Thi. Janakiraman: A classical radical

Tamil writer Thi. Janakiraman (1921-1982) was a modernist whose fiction explored the man-woman relationship and its tangles in a changing world. For

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‘A Red-necked Green Bird’ by Ambai, translated from Tamil by GJV Prasad (Simon & Schuster, 2021)

Book Review: ‘A Red-necked Green Bird’ is Tamil writer Ambai’s many-feathered fiction in translation

A clutch of variegated, life-affirming stories to read and revisit as we emerge from an age of forced social isolation.

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“Kural” by Tiruvalluvar. Translated by P.S. Sundaram (Penguin Classics)

Co-publishing venture opens up new vistas for Tamil literature in translation

The literature-in-translation programme supported by the Tamil Nadu Textbook and Educational Services Corporation in collaboration with some of India’

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Mapping herstories

A kaleidoscope of conversations with 17 Tamil women on their writerly selves and how they pursue their craft against all odds.

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Sting operation

An ambitious ensemble novel about women whose lives criss-cross briefly at a riverside resort.

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Love and loss

Twenty-one stories that hold a mirror up to the lives of ordinary Tibetans.

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