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  2. Dangerous Love (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Dangerous Love is a 1996 novel by Ben Okri set in Lagos of the 1970s. The novel is a remake of an earlier book, The Landscapes Within (1981). [ 1 ] It is set in a post civil-war Nigerian society in a Lagos compound.

  3. Inbam (Kural book) - Wikipedia

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    The Book of Inbam follows the earlier bardic agam genre of the Tamil literary tradition, wherein the human emotional states and attitudes are classified with natural features of the Tamil regions—a unique feature of the Sangam poetry derived from the Tolkappiyam—wherein the five Tamil landscapes, known as tinai, are compared to the human ...

  4. Kural - Wikipedia

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    The work is highly cherished in the Tamil culture, as reflected by its twelve traditional titles: Tirukkuṟaḷ (the sacred kural), Uttaravedam (the ultimate Veda), Tiruvalluvar (eponymous with the author), Poyyamoli (the falseless word), Vayurai valttu (truthful praise), Teyvanul (the divine book), Potumarai (the common Veda), Valluva Maalai ...

  5. Tolkāppiyam - Wikipedia

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    Book 3 Porulatikaram "Porul" meaning "subject matter", and this book deals with the prosody (yappu) and rhetoric (ani) of Old Tamil. [55] It is here, that the book covers the two genres found in classical Tamil literature: akam (love, erotics, interior world) and puram (war, society, exterior world).

  6. Neṭunalvāṭai - Wikipedia

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    [1] [note 1] Also referred to as Nedunalvadai, [3] it is a blend of a love and war story, highlighting the pains of separation of a queen waiting for her lover to return from the distant war. [4] Authored by Nakkirar , it is the seventh poem in the Pattuppāṭṭu anthology. [ 5 ]

  7. Pyre (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Pyre (Tamil: பூக்குழி, romanized: Pūkkuḻi, lit. 'flower pot') is a novel by Perumal Murugan that describes a love story within social caste-induced hatred . [ 1 ] It was originally published in Tamil in 2013 and subsequently translated into English by Aniruddhan Vasudevan in 2016. [ 2 ]

  8. Iraiyanar Akapporul - Wikipedia

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    The Iraiyanar Akapporul in its present form is a composite work, containing three distinct texts with different authors. These are sixty nūṟpās which constitute the core of the original Iraiyanar Akapporul, a long prose commentary on the nūṟpās, and a set of poems called the Pāṇṭikkōvai which are embedded within the commentary.

  9. Valayapathi - Wikipedia

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    Tamil literary tradition places Valayapathi among the five great epics of Tamil literature, alongside such works as Silappatikaram, Manimegalai, Civaka Cintamani and Kundalakesi. [12] It is called a "Aimperumkappiyam" (lit. Five large epics), a genre that is first mentioned in a later century Mayilainathar's commentary of Nannūl. Mayilainathar ...