The year was 1967. An anthology of Tamil poems, nearly two thousand years old, dropped into English in translation. A K Ramanujam, scholar, translator, and writer had released The Interior Landscape, ...

Professor Archana Venkatesan and her prize-winning translation, “Endless Song.” (Courtesy) With [this volume] Venkatesan has clearly become the leading English interpreter of early Tamil Vaishnava ...

“Enda peyr Nilavoli,” opens Nilavoliyil Meenmathar, Ponni Arasu’s Tamil translation of my picture book Mermaids In The Moonlight, originally created in English and published by Westland in February ...

Walk in to the ongoing Puducherry book fair and it’s not uncommon to see an English book sitting cheek by jowl with its Tamil translation. Be it contemporary Indian writers, literary giants from ...

SINGAPORE — Another political party has made a gaffe in its Tamil translation, this time on campaign posters displayed on lamp posts in the constituencies it is contesting in. A reader had alerted ...

Poomani is a distinguished Tamil novelist and Sahitya Akademi Award recipient who rose to fame in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Today, he remains one of the most discussed authors in the Tamil ...

The state government of Tamil Nadu in India plans to translate 1,000 Tamil books into different world languages over the next four years through the Chennai International Book Fair. More than 50 ...

Chennai: From biographies of famous personalities such as poet Subramania Bharati to ethical texts like Naladiyar and Nanmanikadigai, as many as 500 Tamil books will soon be available in English. The ...

The Tamil Nadu Information Commission has directed the Tamil University, Thanjavur, to translate into Tamil the Physics, Chemistry, History, Geography, Economics and Mathematics books published by the ...

Three decades ago, at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library in New Delhi, I was poring over the microfilms of Swadesamitran, the earliest Tamil daily, when I chanced upon a book advertisement. It was ...