Tami-In Translation
Ponneelan. Translated from the original Tamil by J. Priyadarshini
The narrative of Black Soil builds on the idea of the recognizability of lives and establishes its referentiality to the social and political atrocities of young, Independent India.
C. N. Annadurai(Translated from the original Tamil by Ramakrishnan V.)
C N Annadurai (1909-1969), popularly known as ‘Anna’ (elder brother), is one of Tamil Nadu’s greatest icons. His charisma and ideology resonate in Tamil politics even today.
Indira Parthasarathy(Translated from the original Tamil by T. Sriraman)
In the Author’s Preface, Parthasarathy presents his play as exploring the ‘theme of mutually contradictory dispositions of the various characters’ going beyond ‘a mere narration of historical events’.
Translated from the original Tamil by K. S. Subramanian
The first piece in the present collection of articles on Chennai was written in 1998 and the compilation in Tamil, Oru Parvaiyil Chennai Nagaram (‘Chennai at a Glance’) took shape gradually over the years.