Perundevi’s poetry is a canvas of constant experimentation. “I have explored various stylistic approaches in my collections. In my first book, I wrote poems without titles, subverting representational ...

Perundevi, in conversation with Bogan Sankar on “How Modern is Modern Tamil Poetry?” at The Hindu Lit for Life 2025, touched upon the emergence of modernism. She said though it was difficult to define ...

In one of his oft-quoted poems, Rudyard Kipling brings out the point that East is East, West is West; Nether the twain shall meet. Should it be so for literary works also? As the cultural diffusion ...

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 ...

Nandini Karky, wife of Madhan Karky, has released a poetry collection called ‘Sun Seeds’. From this family of Tamil poets, Nandini commences her literary journey as an English poet. From darkness to ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...