One of the longest-surviving classical languages in the world, Tamil is spoken by over 70 million native speakers within the Indian subcontinent and across the globe. Tamil is an official language in ...

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, ...

The title of Shakespeare’s Hamlet in Tamil in the recently concluded Chennai Book Fair invariably brought to a Tamil reader’s mind a scene from the Sivaji Ganesan-starrer Rajapart Rangathurai. “To be ...

CHENNAI: Ever stumbled upon a good English translation of a foreign language book and wondered why no one ever did that to Tamil books that you grew up reading? The Tamil Nadu Textbook And Educational ...

Chennai: From biographies of famous personalities such as poet Subramania Bharati to ethical texts like Naladiyar and Nanmanikadigai, as many as 500 Tamil books will soon be available in English. The ...