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 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 ...

SINGAPORE - The House fell silent on Wednesday as MPs marked the death of Parliament Tamil translator Palaniappan Arumugum, who died on May 4 at the age of 73. The sitting began with MPs offering ...

Forced to retire from the literary life following protests by caste-based groups against his 2010 novel Mathorubhagan, award-winning Tamil author Perumal Murugan was “resurrected” by the Madras High ...

Of the five novels shortlisted for the inaugural JCB Prize for Literature, two were translations, and one, Benyamin’s Jasmine Days, was the winner. The other was Perumal Murugan’s Poonachi: Or The ...