The face of the new-verse movement was a frail looking writer who spoke through his strong characters. R S Krishnasamy, better known by his pseudonym Vallikannan, whose centenary is this year, stood ...

When did the journey of modern Tamil poetry begin? Capturing the “the present” by Bharathi in his free verses or with the penning of the stray verses (Thanipadalkal) by poets like Kalamegam, that were ...

“Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it” – Rumi. Tamil being one of the earliest classical ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Readings of ancient Tamil love poetry, translated into English by AK Ramanujan, and accompanied by ...

For Malaiyaha Tamil poetry, context – not imagination – is everything. Mylvaganam Thilakarajah’s office is a testament to this. Surrounded by books on the history and literature of the hill country ...

Author Nirmala Lakshman first fell in love with literature from the Sangam Age — a period in ancient South India that lasted from approximately 300 BCE to 300 AD — when she read poet AK Ramanujan’s ...

Poet Yu Hsi is a world renowned Chinese (Mandarin) poet from Taiwan. He has translated Thirukkural, poems by Bharathiyar and Bharathithasan, and Aathichudi. Yu Hsi is the only foreigner so far to ...

As a young, Australian-born Tamil woman, Srisha Sritharan uses poetry to explore contemporary socio-politics. Srisha's passion for spoken word placed her as a 2017 Australian Poetry Slam finalist at ...