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...
Silappathikaram – Excerpts in English translation
Translated by Chenthil Nathan
Clamour of farmers, clamour of sluice gates,
Clamour of water breaking river banks, clamour of revellers
Celebrating fresh floods – escorted...
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...
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...
Chair – By Ki. Rajanarayanan
Translated by V. Ramanan
How could you call a house without a chair a home? So it struck all of us in the house the same...
Fermented Pancake, Aranygaluska ! – By Appadurai Muttulingam
Translated by V. Ramanan
It all happened like this. A Jewish woman had called us for dinner. You may ask me, what was unusual about...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
Constant, Thy Remembrance – Poem(s) by Sibichelvan
Translated by Latha Ramakrishnan
1.
Constant thy remembrance
Constant Oh Mount thy remembrance
Constant Oh Sea thy remembrance
Constant Oh wind thy remembrance
Constant Oh fire thy remembrance
Constant Oh Water,...
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...
