Liberation – Little Sparrow – By Bharathiyar
Translated by Lekha Murali
Liberation – Little Sparrow
Stay liberated -
Like this little sparrow
In eight directions, it flies and roams,
Into the air, it ascends; swims rapidly...
Ages meet – By Jeyakanthan
Translated by E. Annamalai and H. Schiffman
Old Gowri waited patiently inside the bus for everyone else to get off.
Then she stepped off last, carrying...
The Dying – By Vaiyavan
Translated by E. Annamalai and H. Schiffman
Boothalingam's bristly beard brushed lightly against his bony chest and tickled him. He sat up and closed his...
Mother – by N. Pichamurthi
Translated by E. Annamalai & H. Schiffman
I was traveling on a train. My attention, which was focussed on looking out of the open window...
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...
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...
What For ? – Poems by C. Mani
Translated by E. Annamalai
What For?
1.
I didn’t come
to rush to my office
straight from home.
I came to watch with fun,
stopped and musing,
like a boy
sent to school...
Bharathiyar’s Poem – “Besought”
Translated by Lekha Murali
Besought
Why build an exquisite veena1,
Only to be heedlessly cast-off into dust?
Tell me O! Sivasakthi2 –
You, (who) created me with a scintillating...
Bharathiyar Songs
Translated by A.K. Ramanujan
Wind
Wind, come softly.
Don’t break the shutters of the windows.
Don’t scatter the papers.
Don’t throw down the books on the shelf.
There, look what...
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...
