Tamil reading ability declining: ASER report. Nation. A Ragu Raman. 17 Jan 2019 1:46 AM IST. In Tamil Nadu, the percentage of primary schools that had less than 60 students is increasing every ...

Spark: I grew up among books appa collected, mostly on Marxist thoughts. Sputnik launched my book-reading habit; it took off with Russian stories. In Vellore where we lived, Tamil book fairs were ...

THANJAVUR: In the quiet corridors of Thanjavur, where centuries-old wisdom rests between brittle palm leaves and fading paper ...

The year was 1967. An anthology of Tamil poems, nearly two thousand years old, dropped into English in translation. A K Ramanujam, scholar, translator, and writer had released The Interior ...

The Tamil reading public is by now quite used to these “frenzies” of Jeyamohan, the recent one resulting in a spate of 100 stories and, of course, ...