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Blindness and insight: K.R. Meera’s ‘The Unseeing Idol Of Light’
N Kalyan Raman The Unseeing Idol of Light, novel by KR Meera, translated from the Malayalam by Minishty S, Penguin Random House India,...
Jun 18, 20235 min read
A Search for Moorings
N Kalyan Raman Stories of the True Jeyamohan | Translated from the Tamil by Priyamvada, Juggernaut Books, 2022 Among the works of...
Jun 18, 20235 min read
The Illustrious Illustrator
N Kalyan Raman Sketches: The Memoir of an Artist KM Vasudevan Namboodiri | Translated by Gita Krishnankutty, Penguin Books India, 2019...
Jun 18, 20233 min read
The Ocean-Ringed Earth
N Kalyan Raman Aazhi Soozh Ulagu (The Ocean-Ringed Earth) by Joe D’Cruz, Thamizhini Pathippagam, Chennai 2004 ‘Aazhi Soozh Ulagu’, the...
Jun 18, 20236 min read
The Shadow Lines: Review of Oru Kuurvaalin Nizhalil
N Kalyan Raman Oru Kuurvaalin Nizhalil (In The Shadow of A Sword) by Tamizhini, Kalachuvadu Publications, 2016 The anti-colonial...
Jun 18, 20236 min read
Chronicle of a Defeat Foretold
N Kalyan Raman Avasthe: A Novel by UR Ananthamurthy, translated by Narayana Hegde, Harper Perennial, 2020 Rarely do we come across the...
Jun 18, 20234 min read
Earthly Spirit: A review of Apeetha
N Kalyan Raman Apeetha by La. Sa. Ramamirtham, translated by Padma Narayanan, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2014 'Spirituality’ in...
Jun 18, 20235 min read
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...
May 21, 20233 min read
Bob Dylan: A Prize on His Soul?
N Kalyan Raman The announcement last Thursday that the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2016 has been awarded to Bob Dylan has caused much...
May 21, 20234 min read
AK Ramanujan: a lonely hero
N Kalyan Raman Translation, by definition, always entails some loss of the original substance. All translations are sooner or later...
May 21, 20237 min read
Stories from the margin: Review of 'Video Mariyamman and other stories'
N Kalyan Raman Imayam, the author of the book under review, has emerged as an eminent writer of Tamil fiction over the past 30 years....
May 21, 20235 min read
That elusive equivalence: Review of Wild Girls, Wicked Words
N Kalyan Raman WILD GIRLS, WICKED WORDS: POEMS OF MALATHI MAITHRI, SALMA, KUTTI REVATHI, SUKIRTHARANI, translated by Lakshmi Holmstrom,...
May 21, 20235 min read
Living and dying: Review of Tamarind History
N Kalyan Raman Tamarind History by Sundara Ramaswamy (English translation: Blake Wentworth), Penguin Books India, New Delhi 2013 209...
May 21, 20237 min read
The Human Stain: Review of A Girl and A River
N Kalyan Raman A Girl and a River by Usha KR, Penguin Books India, 2007 “The past is not dead. It is not even past yet.” William Faulkner...
May 21, 20237 min read
The Reality of Dreams: Review of Fading Dreams, Old Tales
N Kalyan Raman FADING DREAMS, OLD TALES by Pa Visalam,Oxford University Press, 2013, 270 pp., 495 “Communists are loath to talk about...
May 21, 20237 min read
Myth and Reality: Review of One Part Woman
N Kalyan Raman One Part Woman by Perumal Murugan, Penguin Books India, 2013 At the heart of Tamil writer Perumal Murugan’s One Part Woman...
May 21, 20236 min read
Srivalli
Srivalli is a contemporary Tamil poet who has published three critically acclaimed collections of her poems in 2018, 2019 and 2020. Tryst...
May 21, 20232 min read
Yuvan
Yuvan Chandrasekar (born December 14, 1961) is a Tamil writer and poet whose works bring out a postmodern aesthetic. He writes poetry...
May 21, 20233 min read
N.D. Rajkumar
N.D. Rajkumar is a poet and musician who has published four volumes of poetry in Tamil. Till 2014, he used to work as a daily wage...
May 21, 20232 min read
Sukirtharani
Sukirtharani is an Indian feminist poet who is widely acclaimed for her contribution to contemporary Dalit and Tamil literature....
May 21, 20232 min read
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