What can Poomani’s Tamil novel ‘Vekkai’ tell us about resistance to violence in modern India?

Yashasvi Arunkumar

· Jul 14, 2019 · 08:30 am

A master Tamil storyteller turns the quotidian into a tour of human psychology in his short fiction

Vighnesh Hampapura

· Apr 20, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Chennai: Scholar Iravatham Mahadevan dies at 88

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· Nov 26, 2018 · 11:58 am

Why does Subramania Bharati mean so little to non-Tamil India?

Gopalkrishna Gandhi

· May 26, 2018 · 08:30 am

Readers’ comments on an article on Vairamuthu and Andal: ‘Hindus should not be treated like this’

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· Jan 30, 2018 · 10:30 pm

In Tamil Nadu, a book donation drive is underway to restock a Sri Lanka library set afire in 1981

Vinita Govindarajan

· Nov 23, 2017 · 10:30 am

With just 11 stories this collection goes to the core of Tamil writer Jayakanthan’s fiction

Kavitha Muralidharan

· Nov 05, 2017 · 06:30 pm

Giving a voice to the oppressed: Why Tamil writer Melanmai Ponnusamy (1951-2017) remained a Leftist

Kavitha Muralidharan

· Nov 02, 2017 · 08:30 am

‘There is no need to specify that I am a woman writer’: Ambai

Sharanya Manivannan

· Sep 02, 2017 · 07:45 am

Film extras and domestic servants: Perumal Murugan’s tales of the subaltern

Perumal Murugan

· Jul 27, 2017 · 08:30 am

Through more than 200 stories, Ashokamitran wrote the one big story in which we find ourselves

N Kalyan Raman

· Mar 25, 2017 · 06:30 am

Ashokamitran (1931-2017): A genius bottled in obscurity who deserved far, far more

Charu Nivedita

· Mar 24, 2017 · 05:30 pm

This Tamil novel laid bare the politics and divisiveness of Malayalam literature

Sundara Ramaswamy

· Sep 07, 2016 · 08:30 am

Eighty eight ways to read Tamil literature, one story at a time

Trisha Gupta

· Jul 02, 2016 · 06:30 am