Tamil
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Fiction: Shah Jahan’s daughter Jahanara lives like a recluse with Panipat, a eunuch, for company
Sukumaran Kalaivani Karunakaran
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‘The Life and Work of Moovalur Ramamirtham Ammaiyar’: A biography of a brave anti-caste Devadasi
Kavitha Muralidharan
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How Tamil author Charu Nivedita has created a cult following for his books (and his persona)
Diya Isha
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‘Where God Began’: A deftly dramatised journey of a Sri Lankan refugee’s long years in waiting
Divya Shankar
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‘Ponnyin Selvan’ Book Three: Who was Poonguzhali and why did she agree to assist Vandiyadevan?
Kalki Nandini Krishnan
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‘Conversations with Aurangzeb’: An absurdist questioning of our histories
Ila Manish
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‘The Solitude of a Shadow’: A novel of unsettling moralities and sympathy with the wretched
Ila Manish
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Fiction: An unnamed narrator wants to take revenge on the man who molested his sister 30 years ago
Devibharathi N Kalyan Raman
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Writer Sharanya Manivannan on her picture book being translated into Tamil, her mother tongue
Sharanya Manivannan
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‘A form of expression for my grief, criticism, and anger’: Why Tamil poet Salma writes poetry
Salma K Srilata Shobhana Kumar Chandana Dutta
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Translated fiction: A young man is exiled in Ukraine while the Sri Lankan civil war rages
Appadurai Muttulingam Kavitha Muralidharan
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‘A Woman Burnt’: Imayam’s novel is an incisive observation of an unfair, violent society
Basudhara Roy
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‘War? In this land? / Who told you?’: There’s a new anthology of Sri Lankan poetry in translation
Aazhiyaal Lakshmi Holmström Packiyanathan Ahilan Sascha Ebeling Upekala Bhagyanie Athukorala Vivimarie Vanderpoorten Ruwan Bandujeewa Chamini Kulathunga S Bose Shash Trevett
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A new book brings short stories by the Tamil writer Imayam to readers in English translation
Imayam Prabha Sridevan
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The art of translating Tamil: Being graceful in English while staying ‘true’ to the source language
Nakul Vac
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Fiction: What strange power does Nandini wield over her powerful husband, Periya Pazhuvettaraiyar?
Kalki Nandini Krishnan
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Fiction: Meet this family of three generations of Badagas who have remained untouched by modernity
Rajam Krishnan Uma Narayanan Prema Seetharam
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Fiction: A writer holds seances with Shah Jahan, who is elbowed out by Aurangzeb, to write a novel
Charu Nivedita Nandini Krishnan
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Watch: Tamil actor Soori delights young fans by offering them a sneak peek inside his caravan
Scroll Staff
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‘Fire Bird’: Perumal Murugan could have shaped the novel’s characters with a more decisive force
Shree Thaarshini Sriraman