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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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