Author: A. K. Ramanujan
Publisher: Midland Books
ISBN: 9780253201850
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
The Interior Landscape
Author: A. K. Ramanujan
Publisher: Midland Books
ISBN: 9780253201850
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Publisher: Midland Books
ISBN: 9780253201850
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Interior Landscape
The Interior Landscape: Classical Tamil Love Poems
Author: A. K. Ramanujan
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590176782
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
In The Interior Landscape the great Indian poet and translator A.K. Ramanujan has drawn on a celebrated anthology of classical Tamil poetry to compose an unforgettable sequence of love poems. The story unfolds in a series of dramatic exchanges between a shifting array of characters—the lovers, relatives, friends, rivals, and sundry passersby—and as it does we are conducted through five phases of love, from first meeting, anxiety, infidelity and separation to final union, each associated with a lush interior landscape of its own. Immersed in the glories of the natural world, the poems evoke the whole spectrum of love while also capturing the gossip and wisecracking of those who look on from outside.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590176782
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
In The Interior Landscape the great Indian poet and translator A.K. Ramanujan has drawn on a celebrated anthology of classical Tamil poetry to compose an unforgettable sequence of love poems. The story unfolds in a series of dramatic exchanges between a shifting array of characters—the lovers, relatives, friends, rivals, and sundry passersby—and as it does we are conducted through five phases of love, from first meeting, anxiety, infidelity and separation to final union, each associated with a lush interior landscape of its own. Immersed in the glories of the natural world, the poems evoke the whole spectrum of love while also capturing the gossip and wisecracking of those who look on from outside.
Poems of Love and War
Author: A. K. Ramanujan
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231157355
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
10/13/201010/13/2010
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231157355
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
10/13/201010/13/2010
Red Earth and Pouring Rain
Author: Vikram Chandra
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571267157
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
The gods of poetry and death descend on a house in India to vie for the soul of a wounded monkey. A bargain is struck: the monkey must tell a story, and if he can keep his audience entertained, he shall live. The result is Red Earth and Pouring Rain, Vikram Chandra's astonishing, vibrant novel. Interweaving tales of nineteenth-century India with modern America, it stands in the tradition of The Thousand and One Nights, a work of vivid imagination and a celebration of the power of storytelling itself. 'A dazzling first novel written with such originality and intensity as to be not merely drawing on myth but making it.' Sunday Times
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571267157
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
The gods of poetry and death descend on a house in India to vie for the soul of a wounded monkey. A bargain is struck: the monkey must tell a story, and if he can keep his audience entertained, he shall live. The result is Red Earth and Pouring Rain, Vikram Chandra's astonishing, vibrant novel. Interweaving tales of nineteenth-century India with modern America, it stands in the tradition of The Thousand and One Nights, a work of vivid imagination and a celebration of the power of storytelling itself. 'A dazzling first novel written with such originality and intensity as to be not merely drawing on myth but making it.' Sunday Times
Historical Dictionary of the Tamils
Author: Vijaya Ramaswamy
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538106868
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
The Tamils have an unbroken history of more than two thousand years. Tamil, the language they speak, is one of the oldest living languages in the world. The only people comparable to the Tamils in terms of their hoary past and vibrant present would be the Jews with one marked difference. The Tamils have always had their homeland 'Tamilaham' (alternately pronounced and spelt 'Tamizhaham') known today as Tamil Nadu which to them represents their mother and is revered by them as 'Tamizh Tai' literally ‘Tamil Mother’. This is in striking contrast to the Jews who have been through a long and arduous struggle to gain their homeland, a deeply contested site to this day with Hebrewisation of Israel being a key marker of Jewish identity in the region. Tamils, by contrast have a clear numerical majority in the region that now comprises Tamil Nadu and the language unites rather than divides adherents of different faiths. The second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Tamils contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Tamils.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538106868
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
The Tamils have an unbroken history of more than two thousand years. Tamil, the language they speak, is one of the oldest living languages in the world. The only people comparable to the Tamils in terms of their hoary past and vibrant present would be the Jews with one marked difference. The Tamils have always had their homeland 'Tamilaham' (alternately pronounced and spelt 'Tamizhaham') known today as Tamil Nadu which to them represents their mother and is revered by them as 'Tamizh Tai' literally ‘Tamil Mother’. This is in striking contrast to the Jews who have been through a long and arduous struggle to gain their homeland, a deeply contested site to this day with Hebrewisation of Israel being a key marker of Jewish identity in the region. Tamils, by contrast have a clear numerical majority in the region that now comprises Tamil Nadu and the language unites rather than divides adherents of different faiths. The second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Tamils contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Tamils.
Tamil Love Poetry and Poetics
Author: Takanobu Takahashi
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004658602
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
This indispensable work for Tamil love poetry of South India deals with the relationship between the oldest grammar and poetics, Tolkāppiyam, and the ancient literature (Sangam literature) of the 1-3 C. A.D., providing the original meanings and historical changes of many technical terms of love poetry.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004658602
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
This indispensable work for Tamil love poetry of South India deals with the relationship between the oldest grammar and poetics, Tolkāppiyam, and the ancient literature (Sangam literature) of the 1-3 C. A.D., providing the original meanings and historical changes of many technical terms of love poetry.
The Dravidian from Kumari Nadu
Author: Suresh Nayar
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781796663051
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
9000 BCE - Masuthivan in Kumari Nadu.5000 BCE - Somradeva in Eelanku Teevu.1025 CE - Amara Bhujangam in Tumasik. 2017 CE - Venkat in Bangalore Who were these individuals? Was it one individual who discovered time travel? Was it the one man who was an immortal? OR, were they four different people mysteriously connected to each other through several millennia? Discover the answer to this baffling mystery, in the author's new mythological fiction novel!
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781796663051
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
9000 BCE - Masuthivan in Kumari Nadu.5000 BCE - Somradeva in Eelanku Teevu.1025 CE - Amara Bhujangam in Tumasik. 2017 CE - Venkat in Bangalore Who were these individuals? Was it one individual who discovered time travel? Was it the one man who was an immortal? OR, were they four different people mysteriously connected to each other through several millennia? Discover the answer to this baffling mystery, in the author's new mythological fiction novel!
They Came They Conquered
Author: Madhan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789387707009
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Beginning with Timur, Sultan Ghazni who invaded India seventeen times at the head of a large army, plundering the country of its great wealth, to the last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah, banished from the country by the British - details and descriptions of every incident and each king astonish and exhilarate us. The approach is direct, simple and unambiguous. From Timur to Bahadur Shah it is one engaging account. The book should find a place in every household, as an authentic account of ourselves. A flawless portrait. -THE HINDU Madhan while explaining historical events uses modern similes... In spite of being a cartoonist in his previous avatar Madhan did not caricature the Moghul Emperors and their subjects. I am so pleased he did not sit on judgement as a south Indian non-Muslim writer. -KAMAL HAASAN
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789387707009
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Beginning with Timur, Sultan Ghazni who invaded India seventeen times at the head of a large army, plundering the country of its great wealth, to the last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah, banished from the country by the British - details and descriptions of every incident and each king astonish and exhilarate us. The approach is direct, simple and unambiguous. From Timur to Bahadur Shah it is one engaging account. The book should find a place in every household, as an authentic account of ourselves. A flawless portrait. -THE HINDU Madhan while explaining historical events uses modern similes... In spite of being a cartoonist in his previous avatar Madhan did not caricature the Moghul Emperors and their subjects. I am so pleased he did not sit on judgement as a south Indian non-Muslim writer. -KAMAL HAASAN
Children, Women, Men
Author: Sundara Ramaswamy
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 8184759800
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
This intricately woven narrative is one of the landmark novels of Indian modernism. This ambitious novel, teeming with characters, focuses on the family of Srinivasa Aiyar or SRS, who moves from his ancestral house in Alapuzhai in Kerala, to the more modern Kottayam, before returning to his wife Lakshmi’s home in Nagercoil in Tamil Nadu. Set in the late 1930s and reflecting the political and social turmoil of the pre-war years, it chronicles the psychological conflict between SRS and his nine-year-old son, Balu; the moral struggle of a young widow, Anandam, as she considers remarriage; and the political journey of Sridaran, who chooses to break off his studies in England in order to join nationalist activities at home.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 8184759800
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
This intricately woven narrative is one of the landmark novels of Indian modernism. This ambitious novel, teeming with characters, focuses on the family of Srinivasa Aiyar or SRS, who moves from his ancestral house in Alapuzhai in Kerala, to the more modern Kottayam, before returning to his wife Lakshmi’s home in Nagercoil in Tamil Nadu. Set in the late 1930s and reflecting the political and social turmoil of the pre-war years, it chronicles the psychological conflict between SRS and his nine-year-old son, Balu; the moral struggle of a young widow, Anandam, as she considers remarriage; and the political journey of Sridaran, who chooses to break off his studies in England in order to join nationalist activities at home.