Borrow One! – By Appadurai Muttulingam
Translated by Nakul Vāc
I was of the age when I believed that a car would go all on its own if I kept touching...
Aka Nanuru : Palai – 163
Translated by Dr. A. Dakshinamurthy (The heroine speaks in desperation to her friend who consoles her) The cool clouds gathered in the sky
And poured heavily with...
Bharathiyar Poems (Subramania Bharati)
Translated by Rajesh Subramanian 1. I won't fall Filling their stomach every time
after strenuous search,
Gossiping around with many many petty stories,
Their minds saddened and
burdened with endless despair,
Most...
Borrow One! – By Appadurai Muttulingam
Translated by Nakul Vāc
I was of the age when I believed that a car would go all on its own if I kept touching...
Bamboo Shoots – By Dilip Kumar
Translated by Nakul Vac
Even before Columbus discovered America, the weekly pay system was already in place in the tailor shops of Kovai. This was...
Kaanchanai – By Pudhumaippithan
Translated from Tamil *
I just couldn’t sleep that night, for no apparent reason. My mind was neither troubled, nor was it overflowing with happiness...
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...
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...
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,...
Poems by A.Nasbullah
Translated by Sri N Srivatsa God's Blessings Declining the great love
of God
with a frozen head
hugging hard
your fake operating systems technology,
mind filled with
sea rock
whenever you attempt
to go...
Poems by Mubeen Sadhika
Translated by Latha Ramakrishnan Wall The cot where slept the cat’s tail
Never wailing whether tugged at or twirled
Searching for rat at weary midnight hour
On the verge...
Poems by A. Nasbullah
Translated by : Sri N Srivatsa The Mountain Eaters I cross a rivulet
and reach the valley
where you live.
You are eating
a mountain.
Realising that
the mountain
is not enough
to satiate...
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...
