‘A form of expression for my grief, criticism, and anger’: Why Tamil poet Salma writes poetry

Salma K Srilata Shobhana Kumar Chandana Dutta

· Feb 12, 2024 · 01:30 pm

‘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

· Jan 26, 2024 · 05:30 pm

‘Kural’ versus ‘Kural’: The aesthetics and politics of two translations of Tiruvalluvar’s classic

Suchitra Ramachandran

· Mar 05, 2023 · 07:30 pm

‘Give up desire or give up shame’: Meena Kandasamy translates parts of ‘Tirukkural’ afresh

Tiruvalluvar Meena Kandasamy

· Feb 13, 2023 · 05:30 pm

What this verse from Thiruvalluvar’s ‘Thirukkural’ says about the state’s relationship with farmers

S Anand

· Jan 23, 2022 · 08:30 am

Archana Venkatesan wins international translation award for her translation of 1102-verse Tamil poem

Nammāḻvār

· Oct 18, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘Substitute this betrayal with yet another’: Five poems on grief and memories by Salma

Salma

· Apr 23, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘We are going to meet soon’: Read these post-modern love poems in the bhakti tradition

Srivalli

· Aug 04, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘Nothing imagined is excessive’: Eleven poems for (and from) a world gripped by a pandemic

Perundevi

· May 20, 2020 · 05:30 pm

The Art of Resistance: A poet and parliamentarian yearns for justice and equality in India

D Ravikumar

· Jan 01, 2020 · 09:00 pm

‘How were we done for in this war?’: Three poems by women poets from Sri Lanka ask the same question

Sivaramani Paamathi Anar

· Mar 06, 2019 · 12:30 pm

‘The crux of my novel is one woman’s loneliness’: How a writer recreated the story of the poet Andal

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Oct 21, 2018 · 12:30 pm

What was it like to be Andal? This novel imagines the life of the ninth century devotional poet

Sharanya Manivannan

· Oct 05, 2018 · 08:30 am

‘I believe in being the fringe. It helps keep my poetry alive’: How Naran is redefining Tamil poetry

Kavitha Muralidharan

· Jun 10, 2018 · 06:30 pm

Tamil poet Subramania Bharati died in poverty, but his works sparked an unparalleled copyright war

AR Venkatachalapathy

· May 10, 2018 · 05:30 pm