The Athai who Turned into an Ayah
In a 1977 black-and-white film set in Madras, a rich widow sets out to work as the ayah of her grandson – a bit like Avvai Shanmugi, except there is no big disguise involved. The
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Be Still My Beating (Tamil) Heart
Words by Lyricist YugaBharathi Be still my traitorous heart, This is heaven – inhabit it, In the spinning wheel of time, love is fiber, to be spun into yarn, O be quiet mute heart. Spoken
Curiosity-driven research, curd rice and pickle
You may be familiar with MS Blue, the distinctive shade of blue, named for the legendary Carnatic vocalist M.S. Subbalakshmi, but now “Mas Blue,” is all set to wow the world of art. “Mas” comes from the
Bionote
The poem Bionote, K.Srilata says, was written on a sort of impulse. “It was triggered by a comment I heard from a friend of mine – quite a culture-vulture himself – about another writer based in
Pey Nayanar
On a dark night, the poet Karaikaal Ammaiyar, who is supposed to have lived in the 6th century A.D., went to the crematorium — a shunned space then and now — to watch Lord
On Killing a Tree
By Gieve Patel It is premeditated murder — no two ways about it. Stanza 1 “It takes much time to kill a tree, Not a simple jab of the knife I will do it. It