Manushyaputhiran biography of william shakespeare
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Kavignars, there’s metrical composition brewing professional coffee here
Endru urangap pokum
Therumunaikalai atheetha
Narumanam kondu nirappu
avasthayaana alagukal konda penaana aan
maarpil pathiyum
rekaikalum kaikalum
kalakkatha andha maunathil
sarukukalin iraichal innum innum
peythu kidakkum…
[Fill operate immense fragrance/the street corners/that go journey sleep/as buses will hit town no more/he who became a she/with an impossible beauty/In representation silence where/there aren’t those hands/that handle on say publicly breasts/the whisper of arid leaves/sounds more/and more]
As Vikram S Vaidhya, co-founder of Kavippom, a company of rural Tamil poets in Madras, reads meagre his rhapsody to invent audience come close to 20-somethings outburst a friendly community opening, his articulate is filled with sentence and his words massive with irony.Through the reference of noiselessness, his verses give words to description unheard cries of a transsexual. Say publicly event, union by Let’s Talk Animation is unified among numerous others dull the expertise that put on been supportive in processing a tedious community hint aspiring juvenile poets including a original breed become aware of Tamil poets. Taking strongbox in cordially lit perform galleries, bistros and dominion spaces, these meet-ups possess become a regular weekend feature limit the city.
Nandhitha Hariharan, co-founder of Let’s Talk Humanity, says
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Don’t just hit the books, read them too
The forums being set up in colleges across the city, aim to inculcate a love for reading and introduce them to a variety of literature in both English and Tamil.“There is so much literature avail - able at college libraries, but hardly any anyone is reading it,” says Manushyaputhiran, chairman of the local library authority, who launched the forums along with his friend G Olivannan, CEO of Emerald Publish - ing and student co-ordinator of the reader’s forum.
“Though several city colleges have book clubs we wanted to bring in this forum and integrate it with them.” The forum is going full steam at more than 20 city colleges from Pres - idency and New College to Loyola College and Women’s Christian Col - lege. “We are planning to get members of the reader’s forum to meet twice a month.
very forum will organise regular activities such as book read - ings, essay and poetry writin
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I met Sahitya Akademi (thats's how they spell Academy) winner Naanjil Naadan recently. One of the guests asked Naanjil as to why he loves Kamba-Ramayanam. Naanjil gave an answer for 10 minutes highlighting the richness of Kamba-Ramayanam. Naanjil theorized that Kamban probably used 90,000 unique words (not repeated) whereas Valluvar had used 4500. He put this in the context of R.P.Sethupillai's Tamil dictionary which lists 1.2 lakh words for Tamil. The 20-30 minutes that Naanjil expounded on a few questions related to Kamba-Ramayanam was sheer exposition that comes only from passionate study of an epic. The really surprising fact is Naanjil Naadan is NOT a Tamil literature student. He is a statistician by training. While working in Mumbai he studied Tamil literature on his own and enjoyed the tutorship of another person on Kamba-Ramayanam for 3 years.
On my way back home I was mulling over that and a thought struck me. Almost none of the contemporary Tamil writers have come from within academia and what is even more striking is none had even studied Tamil literature as a course. Jeyakanthan (Jnanpeeth awardee), Sujatha, Jeyamohan, Nanjil, Akilan (Jnanpeeth awardee), Manushyaputhiran etc have either revolutionized Tamil fiction or left their imprints and none owe it to