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N Kalyan Raman My first memory of Jayakanthan was reading his 1960 novella, ‘Yarukkaga Azhuthan’ (For whom did he weep), about Joseph, a...

N Kalyan Raman At a meeting held on June 6 in Tiruppanantal in the Kaveri delta region of Tamil Nadu, Pa Ranjith, film director and...

N Kalyan Raman With the passing of Ashokamitran last Thursday (March 23) in Chennai, a unique chapter in the annals of Indian literature...

N Kalyan Raman Ashokamitran, who died on Thursday in Chennai at the age of 85, was a colossus among Indian writers of his time....

N Kalyan Raman The first time I met Balakumaran was on a lazy Sunday afternoon, when he knocked on the door of my college hostel room in...

N Kalyan Raman We can presume, at this juncture, that the Electronic service Delivery Bill 2011 will be adopted in the winter session of...

N Kalyan Raman Ashokamitran’s Thanneer (Water) is considered a landmark novel in the annals of contemporary Tamil literature. The events...

The Kongunadu novels of Perumal Murugan N Kalyan Raman

Clashing By Night ....

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

Response to Ram Guha in EPW

N Kalyan Raman “Out again, on the unplumb’d, salt, estranging sea…” India is a country made for the valorisation of exile, much like...

N Kalyan Raman The recent article in The Wire on Periyar by writer PA Krishnan (PAK) seems to have inspired a near-exegesis of Periyar’s...

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N Kalyan Raman A version of this essay was published in Scroll.in on Sep 30, 2022 https://scroll.in/article/1033897/international-transla...

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N Kalyan Raman A version of this essay was published in Scroll.in on April 18, 2021` https://scroll.in/article/991851/the-translation-deb...

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N Kalyan Raman Right from its inception in 2018, the JCB Prize for Literature has presented a level playing field for Indian Writing in...