N Kalyan Raman

N Kalyan Raman Ever since Rajinikanth, the superstar of Tamil films, announced his intention to make a formal entry into the political...

N Kalyan Raman The setting is North Madras, specifically the harbour area and its hinterland of a few square kilometres. Residents of the...

N Kalyan Raman The brutal harassment and silencing of Perumal Murugan, a leading Tamil writer, on the basis of certain passages in his...

N Kalyan Raman The announcement last Thursday that the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2016 has been awarded to Bob Dylan has caused much...

N Kalyan Raman Translation, by definition, always entails some loss of the original substance. All translations are sooner or later...

The evolution of women in Tamil cinema, from ideal to rebel to object. Beyond Bollywood The Cinemas of South India comprises essays on...