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He had published 46 books. In 1995, he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil for his historical novel Vaanam Vasappadum (lit. The Sky will be ours) set in the times of Ananda Ranga Pillai. His works have been translated into Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, German, French, English and Swedish.
Translated Book I alone in English and French: Lakshman Naresh: Tirukkural in English (Thiruvalluvar Book 1) Kindle edition: 2020: 178 pages: Varadaraja V. Raman: Tirukkural (Book I) in English: As Rhyming Couplets with the Core Ideas: Kindle edition: 2020: 161 pages (SIN: B086VVN-5HQ) J. S. Anantha Krishnan: Thiruvalluvar's Thirukkural: Kollam ...
The Book of Aṟam exclusively deals with virtues independent of the surroundings, including the vital principles of non-violence, moral vegetarianism, veracity, and righteousness. [1] [2] The Book of Aṟam is the most important and the most fundamental book of the Kural. [3] This is revealed in the very order of the book within the Kural ...
Along with Ponniyin Selvan, this is widely regarded as one of the greatest novels ever written in Tamil. Set in the 7th-century south India against the backdrop of various historical events and figures, the novel created widespread interest in Tamil history. Honour, love and friendship are important themes that run through the course of the novel.
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 ...
Manimekhalai, with monk Adikal's wisdom, uses magic bowl to help people. She starts a hospice. The epic mentions Rama and Vishnu story from the Ramayana, states that they built a link to Sri Lanka, but a curse of an ascetic dissolved the bridge link. [42] It also mentions stories of people fed from the magic bowl suddenly realizing their past ...
The Athichudi (Tamil: ஆத்திசூடி, romanized: Āthichūdi) is a collection of single-line quotations written by Avvaiyar and organized in alphabetical order. There are 109 of these sacred lines which include insightful quotes expressed in simple words.
A selection of these books were translated into English by Pritham K. Chakravarthy and published in 2009 as Where Are You Going, You Monkeys? – Folktales from Tamil Nadu. Ki. Ra. was also well known for his candid treatment of sexual topics, [11] [12] and use of the spoken dialect of Tamil for his stories, rather than its formal written form ...