Download or read book Tamil poetry for daily life written by Prabindh Sundareson and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2024-03-18 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this bilingual book, the author takes the inquisitive reader through an unconventional poetic view of Sangam Tamil writings, through life situations that bring forward the Puram (?????) genre’s two thousand years of history to make it remarkably current. The English descriptions tread the middle path between a pedantic translation and street vocabulary, and the colors of life burst out vividly in each page through the Tamil verses, with different narratives co-existing with each other, through the eyes of a learned poet and interpreters. Quoting the original Tamil text and interpreting it through the eyes of the poet and his entourage, more than a hundred situations in the book shed light on the beauty of Tamil text. Verses from Thiruvalluvar, Kambar, Avvaiyar, Agathiyar nestle comfortably with proverbs and colloquial sayings, prominently highlighting the richness that adorns Tamil poetry with a grace that has withstood the passage of time. “...engages the reader with a timeless Tamil quote for every occasion in life…” “....definitely opens a small but interesting door into the infiniteness of Tamil culture. A must read…”
Download or read book Tamil New Poetry written by and published by Katha. This book was released on 2005 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Words translated. Thoughts in transit. Layered with dark humour and precise imagery, a collection of poems to plunge you into the core of meaning, Katha proudly presents its first anthology, tinted in every wash of life and dotted with the Sirissa trees and wailing Palms of the Tamil landscape. An art-tradition is living, breathing history, a contemporary past. Tamil Poetry traces its origin to thousands of years ago. Beautifully translated by Dr K S Subramanian, the anthology is the latest chapter in this history. Featuring a range of poets, from stalwarts like Na Pichamurthy to young artists like Kanimozhi, seeking a sun aflame as a sandal bowl, and a name that does not respond/ To anyone's voice; it brings together diverse voices united in their expertise.
Download or read book Wild Words Four Tamil Poets written by Lakshmi Holmstrom and published by Harper Perennial India. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2003, a group of men and women, setting themselves up as guardians of Tamil culture, objected publicly to the language of a new generation of women poets - particularly in the work of Malathi Maithri, Salma, Kutti Revathi and Sukirtharani - charging the women with obscenity and immodesty. More than a decade later, a deep divide still persists in the way readers and critics perceive women poets. Tamil women poets have been categorized as 'bad girls' and 'good girls'. The traditional values prescribed for the 'good' Tamil woman are fearfulness, propriety and modesty. Our poets have chosen, instead, the opposite virtues - fearlessness, outspokenness and a ceaseless questioning of prescribed rules. This anthology celebrates the poetry of the four poets through Lakshmi Holmstrom's English translation.
Download or read book She Who Counts the Clouds written by Nesamithran Mithra and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-19 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher's NoteTamil is a language having a long, glorious history of Poetry, rich in style and content. Right from ancient poetry with rhyme and rhythm which has been evolving into free verse, modern poetry and neo-poetry with the passage of Time, updating itself without losing its essential distinct traits and continuity.Nesamithran is a contemporary poet whose poems are sincere, poignant dealing with the intricate nuances of human feelings and sensations in a way that impacts the readers a great deal, enabling them to see and scale their own inner depths. In this small volume some 20 poems of Poet Nesamithran are rendered in English with the wish to enable the discerning readers of the wide world to have a peep into the realm of Nesamithran's Poesy.NESAMITHRAN(TAMIL POET) is the pseudonym of S.Thiruramsankar (b. 1979). He is a poet, fiction writer, translator and activist who is based in Dindigul, Tamil Nadu, India. Most of his works are centered around feminism and about the metaphoric impact of science in cultural body of the contemporary Indian milieu. His first poetry collection was 'Cartoon Bommaikku Kural Koduppaval' (A girl who gives 'voice over' for cartoons ) consisting of poems with complex pictures from everyday life and nature which reveal a mystic insight to the universal aspects of the human mind.Being the editor- in- chief for a little magazine 'Valasai' (Migration) since 2010 which concentrates on the Politics of Body, LGBT, Autism, Child Abuse and artists in exile.A complete collection of reviews upon emerging Tamil poetry ''Uthirikalinneelappadam" and his second poetry anthology 'Manpuzhuvin NankavathuIthayam" are released this year. He has co-edited a collection of short stories "irandu pixel kuraivanakadavul " along with its reviews which speaks upon existence and evolution of third sex, Body politics and exile literature . His works were part of an international anthology based on Global harmony and peace compiled by Mr.Madangandhi .EXCERPTS FROM POET NESAMITHRAN'S 'WHY DO I WRITE?'In times of intense crisis, abject helplessness, overwhelming love, unquenchable longing that accompanies parting, while staring at a sea, a mount aimlessly, seeing unseeing, in the vacuum of searching for a star in vain, my poem might come into being. Nothing more I want than remaining hale and healthy with a steady hand to write till I die. SAMPLE POEM FROM THIS VOLUMEUpon the tower of absurditythe bird 'Miracle'has laid egg.For someone unknown to offer prayerIt has to fly and reveal itselfevery now and then For love to be hatchedhow much more prayersorhow many more half-circles.Wolf raised by gambler - this hungry loveThe dice roll obeying your winkThe Sun, yesterdayThe Stars, todayAt least tomorrow, As fondly suffering defeat at the hands of child your dice may let you win.I am an atom of water that has by mistake got into the air inside your football.Have mercy and release me.In your book of chant invoking the evil spiritI am a word.For ages I have been spelt with violent passion.Please give me some respite.suffice that pausewhen the rain that pours on an oyster turned upside downtrying to nurture a gravel mushroomI would extract my rib-cage from my femur.
Download or read book The River Speaks written by Elizabeth Rani Segran and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the ancient Tamil country, the Vaiyai was much more than a mighty river rushing towards the sea. People knew the river intimately and lived their lives upon its banks. In these exquisite poems from the distant past (second to eighth century CE), we glimpse the ebb and flow of everyday life: the bathing, the water games, the lovers’ quarrels and the sacred rituals. Breathtaking in their descriptive power and graceful in their celebration of sensuality, the Vaiyai poems from the Paripāṭal anthology delight our senses and give us insight into a world long past. In V.N. Muthukumar and Elizabeth Segran’s radiant new translation, the Vaiyai River comes alive to a new generation of readers.
Download or read book The Four Hundred Songs of War and Wisdom written by George L. Hart and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two prominent translators present the first complete English-language edition of one of India's greatest works of classical literature: the Purananuru. This anthology of four hundred poems by more than 150 poets between the first and third centuries C.E. delves into living and dying, despair, love, poverty, and the changing nature of existence.
Download or read book Ancient Tamil Poetry and Poetics written by P. Marudanayagam and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-17 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No apology may be required for bringing out a collection of essays examining ancient Tamil poetry and poetics from diverse contemporary perspectives. Now that Tamil has been declared a classical language by the Government of India, it behoves the native scholars of Tamil to convince the world that Tamil deserves the appellation that has elevated it to the level of Greek and Latin which the West has been unanimously cherishing as classical languages for a long time. By 'classic' we mean a literary piece which has achieved a recognized position in literary history for its superior merits. Classical literature may refer to Greek and Roman literature or any literature that exhibits the qualities of classicism. When the word 'Classical' is used to describe the characteristic features of a literary work it implies objectivity in the choice and handling of the theme, simplicity of style, clarity, restraint, order and formal structure. Praiseworthy books, according to Milton, "are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them". Great literature deals not merely with some aspects of the human mind but with the total human psyche. In Coleridge's view, its great achievement is to bring about a "whole-souled activity in man" by appealing to the senses, the heart, the intellect and the spirit of the reader. Besides possessing these attributes, Caṅkam writings have been exerting their profound impact on several succeeding generations of Tamil poets. How did the ancient Tamils conceive art? To them, art, especially poetry, is not a simple source of aesthetic delight, but as Tolstoy contends, "one of the conditions of human life", and, more importantly, "a means of union among men joining them together in the same feelings, and indispensable for the life and progress towards the wellbeing of individuals and humanity." The claim of Tamil classics to international recognition and eternal fame is, therefore, based on solid grounds. In consequence of A.K.Ramanujan's English translations of selections from a few Caṅkam anthologies, the response by Western critics in the form of articles and books is much more widespread than ever before. But not all of them can be said to be insightful or even well informed and some of them are not free from howlers. It is again the duty of the insiders to adequately project the Tamil texts, to properly explicate them and to periodically provide the corrective, wherever necessary. We now have a vast variety of ways to interpret a work of literature ranging from traditional approaches like the moralistic and the historical through the formalist, the New Critical, the psychological and the mythic and into such post-structuralist approaches as deconstruction, feminist criticism, New Historicism, Bakhtinian dialogism and cultural studies. Caṅkam writings, being great literature, deserve correspondingly rich responses that are felt and reasoned. Such responses will be extremely fruitful when the critic appreciates these works from as many perspectives as they open themselves to. Matthew Arnold rightly stresses the need to reassess even a writer who has attained the status of a classic. If he is a dubious classic, let us sift him; if he is a false classic, let us explode him. But if he is a real classic, if his work belongs to the class of the very best (for this is the true and right meaning of the word, classic, classical), then the great thing for us is to feel and enjoy his work as deeply as ever we can, and to appreciate the wide difference between it and all work which has not the same high character. This is what is salutary, this is what is formative; this is the great benefit to be got from the study of poetry. P. Marudanayagam
Download or read book The Princeton Handbook of Multicultural Poetries written by Terry V.F. Brogan and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn from the acclaimed New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, the articles in this concise new reference book provide a complete survey of the poetic history and practice in every major national literature or cultural tradition in the world. As with the parent volume, which has sold over 10,000 copies since it was first published in 1993, the intended audience is general readers, journalists, students, teachers, and researchers. The editor's principle of selection was balance, and his goal was to embrace in a structured and reasoned way the diversity of poetry as it is known across the globe today. In compiling material on 106 cultures in 92 national literatures, the book gives full coverage to Indo-European poetries (all the major Celtic, Slavic, Germanic, and Romance languages, as well as other obscure ones such as Hittite), the ancient middle Eastern poetries (Hebrew, Persian, Sumerian, and Assyro-Babylonian), subcontinental Indian poetries (the widest linguistic diversity), Asian and Pacific poetries (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Mongolian, and half a dozen others), continental American poetries (all the modern Western cultures and native Indian in North, Central, and South American regions), and African poetries (ancient and emergent, oral and written).
Download or read book Everyday Life in South Asia written by Diane P. Mines and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the peoples and cultures of South Asia
Download or read book Kuruntogai written by and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-05-06 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kuruntogai is a collection of 401 Classical Tamil love poems which date from around 2,000 years ago. They have a freshness and universality which is rare in 'ancient' classical literature and this translation attempts to reflect that quality. Rather than simply translating them, it endeavours to recreate them in modern, idiomatic English. The extensive notes include literal Tamil-English translations of all or part of every poem, identifications and descriptions of the flora and fauna of the Tamil landscape, explanations of cultural and historical references and notes on Classical Tamil grammar where it differs from Standard Literary Tamil.
Download or read book Tamil Literature written by Kamil Zvelebil and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 1974 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sensitive Reading written by Yigal Bronner and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction / Yigal Bronner and Charles Hallisey -- Shriharsha's Sanskrit Life of Naishadha : translator's note and text -- Points and progression : how to read Shriharsha's Life of Naishadha / Gary Tubb -- "If I'm reading you right..." : reading bodies, minds and poetry in the Life of Naishadha / Thibaut d'Hubert -- Ativirarama Pandyan's Tamil Life of Naidatha : translator's note and text -- Hearing and madness : reading Ativirarama Pandyan's Life of Naidatha / N. Govindarajan -- How we read / Sheldon Pollock -- Malamangala Kavi's Malalyalam Naishadha in our language : translator's note and text -- I talk to the wind : Malamangala Kavi's Naishadha in our language / Sivan Goren-Arzony -- In the garden of love : an essay on Naishadha in our language / Meir Shahar -- "Khwaja the Dog-Worshiper" from The story of the four dervishes : translator's note and text -- How not to see a dog-worshiper / Jamal Jones -- A historian reads a fable / Muzaffar Alam -- "Touch" by Abburi Chayadevi : translator's note and text -- How to touch "Touch" / Gautham Reddy -- "Don't stand so close to me!" : remarks on Chayadevi's "Touch" / Sanjay Subrahmanyam -- "A street pump in Anantapuram" and five other poems by Ismail : translator's note and text -- Speaking of landscapes, revolutionaries, and donkeys : Ismail's words and images / Afsar Mohammad -- Between sky and road : the wandering scholar, modernism and the poetry of Ismail / Gabriel Levin -- The music contest from Tiruttakkatevar's Tamil Chivakan's gem : translator's note and text -- Love in defeat / Talia Arlav -- Sweetness that melts the heart / Kesavan Veluthat -- What's gained in translation / Sonam Kachru -- Two songs by Muttuswami Dikshitar performed by T.M. Krishna and Eileen Shulman : translator's note, texts, and recordings -- Beyond passion, beyond even the Raga / T.M. Krishna -- Reading as an act of trust / Donald R. Davis -- Desire and passion ride to war (unknown artist) : selector's note -- Pillars of love : a dialogic reading of temple sculpture / Anna Lise Seastrand -- Side observation of a small portion of Varadaraja-svami Temple / Tawfiq Da'adli -- Ravana visits Sita at night in the Ashoka Grove, from Kamban's Tamil Ramayana : translator's note and text -- Kamban's Tamil as a kind of Sanskrit / Whitney Cox -- Can darkness stand before light? : encountering an episode from a medieval Tamil masterpiece / Yehoshua Granat -- When a mountain rapes a river, from Bhattumurti's Telugu Vasu's Life : translator's note and text -- Irreconcilable differences and (un)conventional love in Bhattumurti's Vasu's Life / Ilanit Loewy Schacham -- Desire, perception, and the poetry of desire : a reading of Vasu's life / Deven Patel -- "The ten on the wild boar" : translator's note and text -- Reading "Ten on the wild boar" / Archana Venkatesan -- Three poems about love's inner modes : translator's note and text -- Between us : reading Tamil Akam poems / Jennifer Clare -- The unbaked clay pot in pouring rain : reading Sangam poetry today / R. Cheran -- Nammalvar's Tamil A hundred measures of time : translator's note and text -- "You came so that we may live" / Anand Venkatkrishnan -- Taking the measure of A hundred measures / Andrew Ollett -- A Persian Ghazal by Hafez and an Urdu Ghazal by Ghaleb : translator's note and text -- How a Ghazal thinks / Rajeev Kinra -- The Ghazal of What's more than real / Peter Cole -- Afterword / Wendy Doniger.
Download or read book Emotions in Indian Thought Systems written by Purushottama Bilimoria and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stimulating account of the wide range of approaches towards conceptualising emotions in classical Indian philosophical–religious traditions, such as those of the Upanishads, Vaishnava Tantrism, Bhakti movement, Jainism, Buddhism, Yoga, Shaivism, and aesthetics, this volume analyses the definition and validity of emotions in the construction of
Download or read book Songs of Experience written by Norman Cutler and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1987-05-22 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... a significant contribution to the field... great insight, learning, and clarity." -- George Hart III, University of California, Berkeley "A master's hand is behind this volume." -- Religious Studies Review "... eminently readable... artfully explains the initial spirit and modern understanding of Tamil bhakti poetry... " -- Pacific Affairs "Norman Cutler's major achievement in Songs of Experience is the new critical perspective he provides on bhakti poetry." -- The Journal of Religion Cutler reveals the link between Tamil poetry and religion. His fluent translations make the poems -- songs of the experience of God -- live for us as they did for their first audience nearly fifteen centuries ago.
Download or read book Lexicon of Tamil Literature written by K.V. Zvelebil and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 813 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lexicon of Tamil Literature is a reference-dictionary of Tamil literature of South India from its early beginnings more than 2000 years ago until the present time (ca. 1980). It includes in the order of Roman alphabet names and short biographies of authors, lists of their works, anonymous literary works and most important matters of Tamil prosody, rhetoric and poetics. Whenever available, bibliographic data are given with individual entries in selection. Brief contents and evaluative statements are given with literary works of greater importance, whether ancient or modern. An introduction is included. The work is the first of its kind in a non-Indian language. It is an indispensable source of data and work of reference for Tamil literature in particular, and for the totality of Indic literatures in general.
Download or read book Ants Brigade written by Booma ESWARAMURTHY and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-28 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHY THIS VOLUME?Latha RamakrishnanTamil is a language having a long, glorious history of Poetry, rich in style and content. Right from ancient poetry with rhyme and rhythm which has been evolving into free verse, modern poetry and neo-poetry with the passage of Time, updating itself without losing its essential distinct traits and continuity.Booma Eswaramurthy is one of the significant Neo Tamil poets. His poems deal with human feelings and emotions, travails and traumas in an objective, calm and composed manner. His long poems comprising many segments as well as his short poems consciously avoid words and expressions redundant. Also, whether it is his short story or essay or poem they have an inherent enquiring tendency, probing into the mysteries and complexities of life. They seek and find the extraordinary from the mundane, ordinary aspects of life, highlighting the 'visions' that one can get from these, if only he or she cares to. This volume has some 50 small poems of Poet Booma Eswaramurthy and their English translations with the wish to enable the discerning readers of the wide world to have a peep into the realm of Booma Eswaramurthy's Poesy.I thank the poet for giving permission to translate his poems and for encouraging me in this initiative of publishing it through Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing. Poet Booma Eswaramurthy _ A Brief Introduction His original name is Eswaramurthy. Though he has been writing since the 70s he is identified as the poet of the 80s. After retiring from his Bank job he is now living in the city of Bengaluru in Karnataka State, India. His first poem-collection titled KAADHALAI KAADHAL ENDRUM SOLLALAAM ( We can refer to Love as Love too) published in the 80s was well received and widely acclaimed. So far, one short story collection and nine poem-collection of Booma Eswaramurthy apart from several other works have been published.In simple word his poems convey poignant things in a picturesquely poetic manner. minute human feelings, stirs, misgivings and more are ably documented in his poems. He desires to present his poems in the backdrop of the different landscapes classified as Mullai, Marutham, Neidal in ancient Tamil Literature. The poet wants to express his love for all living beings and spread his universal love through Poetry.NO LAURELS NEEDED FOR LOVE AND POETRYBooma EswaramurthyNo laurels are required for Love and Poems. Yet, we admire and applaud. Heart can never be alone. The very nature of heart is to hold on to something; somebody.After internalizing Love, Art and Literature come closer. When Love flows without blockades, wholesomely in the body and mind poesy becomes consummate. Love that does not love just itself has the possibility of blooming.Expressions in writing of the melting that takes place in the heart of hearts, the ecstasy we experience, absolute despair and helplessness bear witness to Love and the associated agonies and anguishes. They strive to make the poems operate in a moment infinite and at times succeed splendidly in doing so.No laurels are required for Love and Poems. Yet, we admire and applaud. No leavesbranches not seenthe branches are brimming with blossomsbeneath the shade of blossomsI amUnlike the sunthe rain that soaks the bodygives not the gift of shadeHowever, in poems
Download or read book A Reference Grammar of Classical Tamil Poetry written by V. S. Rajam and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1992 with total page 1152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reference tool for those who seek an understanding of the structure of classical Tamil poetry. This poetry reflects indigenous literary and cultural traditions of southern India, and therefore, a study of it is imperative for obtaining a balanced view of India's past and present cultures. The language which produced this poetry, Tamil, is the only living language of modern India that has an uninterrupted history spanning more than two millennia, and therefore, a study of it becomes even more crucial for a thorough understanding of India's linguistic complexity. Includes a bibliography.
