Cambridge, MA. I’ve told you about my seminar on Tamil love poetry, most of it religious, in south India. In my last installment, I told you of Tirumalisai Piran, whose two great poems are both ...
History lingers through Ilham Gallery’s The Plantation Plot exhibition in Kuala Lumpur, not only in paintings, installations and photographs, but also in song. In one corner, a video installation ...
For long, V Tamilarasan had been singing a popular Tamil devotional film song without knowing it was actually a rap. “Muthai Tharu is a rap song,” says the 21-year-old Tamil rapper from Coimbatore.