In the commoner's era: A tribute to Jayakanthan
N Kalyan Raman My first memory of Jayakanthan was reading his 1960 novella, ‘Yarukkaga Azhuthan’ (For whom did he weep), about Joseph, a...
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Apr 27, 20234 min read
Opinion: Why anyone who is anti-caste must stand with Pa Ranjith
N Kalyan Raman At a meeting held on June 6 in Tiruppanantal in the Kaveri delta region of Tamil Nadu, Pa Ranjith, film director and...
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Apr 27, 20238 min read
Ashokamitran: The invisible giant
N Kalyan Raman With the passing of Ashokamitran last Thursday (March 23) in Chennai, a unique chapter in the annals of Indian literature...
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Apr 27, 20233 min read
Ashokamitran: A tribute
N Kalyan Raman Ashokamitran, who died on Thursday in Chennai at the age of 85, was a colossus among Indian writers of his time....
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Tribute to the Tamil writer Balakumaran (1946-2018)
N Kalyan Raman The first time I met Balakumaran was on a lazy Sunday afternoon, when he knocked on the door of my college hostel room in...
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Apr 27, 20233 min read
E-heaven cannot be ushered in by legislation
N Kalyan Raman We can presume, at this juncture, that the Electronic service Delivery Bill 2011 will be adopted in the winter session of...
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Apr 27, 20239 min read
By the water’s light: Some reflections on Ashokamitran’s Thanneer
N Kalyan Raman Ashokamitran’s Thanneer (Water) is considered a landmark novel in the annals of contemporary Tamil literature. The events...
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Apr 27, 20231 min read
Boats against the Current
The Kongunadu novels of Perumal Murugan N Kalyan Raman
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Apr 27, 20236 min read
Book Excerpt: Women in Tamil Cinema
The evolution of women in Tamil cinema, from ideal to rebel to object. Beyond Bollywood The Cinemas of South India comprises essays on...
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Apr 26, 20237 min read
The Babu's Printed Word Atop The Tower Of Babble
N Kalyan Raman “Out again, on the unplumb’d, salt, estranging sea…” India is a country made for the valorisation of exile, much like...
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Apr 26, 202310 min read
Questioning Periyar Is Necessary for Forging a Progressive Anti-Caste Politics
N Kalyan Raman The recent article in The Wire on Periyar by writer PA Krishnan (PAK) seems to have inspired a near-exegesis of Periyar’s...
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What is the Social role of Translation in Contemporary India?
N Kalyan Raman A version of this essay was published in Scroll.in on Sep 30, 2022 https://scroll.in/article/1033897/international-transla...
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Apr 26, 20231 min read
The translation debate: Response to Ambai in Scroll.in
N Kalyan Raman A version of this essay was published in Scroll.in on April 18, 2021` https://scroll.in/article/991851/the-translation-deb...
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Apr 26, 20237 min read
Are translated books the new ‘face’ of Indian literature in English?
N Kalyan Raman Right from its inception in 2018, the JCB Prize for Literature has presented a level playing field for Indian Writing in...
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