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 Landscape, ...

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 ...

In an effort to keep the Internet alive and interesting for a billion Indians, search giant Google has announced the launch of multiple Indian languages support across its products. To start with, ...

As Tamil literature prepares to enter a global conversation at the Living Tamil LitFest in New York, writer and thinker Jeyamohan reflects on language, tradition, translation, and what it means for a ...

CHENNAI: Ever stumbled upon a good English translation of a foreign language book and wondered why no one ever did that to Tamil books that you grew up reading? The Tamil Nadu Textbook And Educational ...

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 ...

CHENNAI: Of the nearly 1,000 memorandums of understanding (MoUs) signed at the Chennai International Book Fair (CIBF) this January to translate Tamil books into other languages, only 270 have so far ...

Tamil achieved the distinction of being the first South Asian language to have the Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology, which is treated as a Bible by medical students worldwide. Another ...