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The List of Tamil Proverbs consists of some of the commonly used by Tamil people and their diaspora all over the world. [1] There were thousands and thousands of proverbs were used by Tamil people, it is harder to list all in one single article, the list shows a few proverbs.
Yakshi is a Malayalam novel written by Malayattoor Ramakrishnan in 1967. [1] The novel follows a college lecturer, Srinivasan, who is disfigured in an accident in his college lab. He meets a beautiful woman who is willing to accept him despite his disfigurement.
Kocharethi, Narayan's debut novel, won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 1998. [4] Its English translation as Kocharethi: The Araya Woman by Catherine Thankamma was published by the Oxford University Press in 2011 and won the Economist-Crossword Book Award in the Indian language translation category for 2011.
The English version was awarded The Tamil Literary Garden Award for Translation in 2014, [5] and longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award for Translated Literature. [20] It was also announced as the Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize awardee in 2018, but the High Court of Madras passed a stay order on it after agitators filed a plea against it.
Chemmeen (Malayalam: ചെമ്മീൻ, cemmīn [t͡ʃemmiːn], lit. prawn) is a Malayalam novel written by Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai in 1956. Chemmeen tells the story of the relationship between Karuthamma, the daughter of a Hindu fisherman, and Pareekutti, the son of a Muslim fish wholesaler.
When Pushkara finally demands Damayanti as a stake, Nala gives up and moves into the forest penniless. His faithful wife follows him. The curse of the dice continues to haunt the king in the form of two birds that steal his robe. Tempted by the demon Kali, who still lives inside him, Nala leaves his wife secretly at night with a heavy heart.
Thottiyude Makan (തോട്ടിയുടെ മകൻ, English: Scavenger's Son) is a 1947 Malayalam novel written by Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai. [2] The novel portrays three generations of a working-class family engaged in Alleppey as scavengers. When it first appeared in India in 1947, the novel caused great controversy in its portrayal ...
Balyakalasakhi (Malayalam: ബാല്യകാലസഖി; transl. Childhood Companion) is a Malayalam romantic tragedy novel written by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer ...