In Tamil literature today, questions of caste, gender, and power have fought against the resistance and rightfully taken the spotlight. P Sivakami, former IAS officer, writer and activist, has spent ...

In mid-December, the Dallas-Fort Worth Tamil community gave $500,000 to help establish a chair in Tamil literature at Harvard University. When I first read the email carrying this news, I had no clue ...

On the basis of the "Tirukkural" by Tiruvalluvar the author wishes to demonstrate that even the weak version of the Whorfian hypothesis has to be qualified: that language influences thought only in ...