The year was 1967. An anthology of Tamil poems, nearly two thousand years old, dropped into English in translation. A K Ramanujam, scholar, translator, and writer had released The Interior Landscape, ...

One of the longest-surviving classical languages in the world, Tamil is spoken by over 70 million native speakers within the Indian subcontinent and across the globe. Tamil is an official language in ...

Chennai: From biographies of famous personalities such as poet Subramania Bharati to ethical texts like Naladiyar and Nanmanikadigai, as many as 500 Tamil books will soon be available in English. The ...

Tamil achieved the distinction of being the first South Asian language to have the Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology, which is treated as a Bible by medical students worldwide. Another ...

The state government of Tamil Nadu in India plans to translate 1,000 Tamil books into different world languages over the next four years through the Chennai International Book Fair. More than 50 ...

SINGAPORE - An English-Tamil glossary, the first of its kind with more than 4,000 common English terms and their corresponding Tamil terms, was launched on Saturday (Feb 3) by Senior Minister of State ...

CHENNAI: Of the nearly 1,000 memorandums of understanding (MoUs) signed at the Chennai International Book Fair (CIBF) this January to translate Tamil books into other languages, only 270 have so far ...