Explore the controversies and significant events following the death of Tamil poet Subramania Bharati and his lasting impact.

Political leaders across India pay tribute to Mahakavi Subramania Bharathi on his 143rd birth anniversary, celebrating his ...

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 ...

Pawan Kalyan pays tribute to Tamil poet Subramaniya Bharathiyar on his birth anniversary, advocating for his recognition with ...

CHENNAI: For centuries, works from Tamil classic literature have served as a guide to understanding the history and heritage of the land, and taken the form of a repository of aphoristic teachings and ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...