One of the longest-surviving classical languages in the world, Tamil is spoken by over 70 million native speakers within the Indian subcontinent and across the globe. Tamil is an official language in ...

SINGAPORE - An English-Tamil glossary, the first of its kind with more than 4,000 common English terms and their corresponding Tamil terms, was launched on Saturday (Feb 3) by Senior Minister of State ...

The title of Shakespeare’s Hamlet in Tamil in the recently concluded Chennai Book Fair invariably brought to a Tamil reader’s mind a scene from the Sivaji Ganesan-starrer Rajapart Rangathurai. “To be ...

Of the five novels shortlisted for the inaugural JCB Prize for Literature, two were translations, and one, Benyamin’s Jasmine Days, was the winner. The other was Perumal Murugan’s Poonachi: Or The ...