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Subramania bharti

Teacher, writer, poet and a rebel, Subramanian Bharati used the power of his pen to make the mighty British Raj tremble. His songs were sung by al…

The Greatest Tamil Stories Ever Told

The Greatest Tamil Stories Ever Told showcases some of the best short fiction to emerge out of Tamil Nadu, dating from the last century to the pre…

Listen to My Case!

Author: K. Chandru

Justice K. Chandru, former judge of the Madras High Court, heard many cases in his illustrious career and passed landmark judgments on them – over…

Black Coffee in a Coconut Shell: Caste as Lived Experience

Caste, as it is experienced in everyday life, is the pièce de résistance of this book. Thirty-two voices narrate how from childhood to adulthood, …

In Those Days There was No Coffee: Writings in Cultural History

Essays on Tamil social and cultural history. focus on consumption (coffee, cartoons, literature); second section, politics of language, literature…

Where Are You Going, You Monkeys?

This is a collection of fun, imaginative, and sometimes quite racy folktales from South India. Ki. Rajanarayanan has spent three-quarters of a cen…

The Dravidian Years: Politics and Welfare in Tamil Nadu

Author: S. Narayan

From Haryana to Gujarat to Maharashtra, numerous Indian states have been witness to protests by backward classes pressing for quotas and reservati…

Who Owns That Song? The Battle for Subramania Bharati’s Copyright

A contemporary of Rabindranath Tagore and one of the greatest Tamil poets of all time, Subramania Bharati belongs to the legion of artists whose w…

Journey of A Civilization: Indus to Vaigai

Journey of a Civilization: Indus to Vaigai seeks to establish common grounds and connecting threads that link the riddles of Indology, namely the …

Silappadikaram & Manimekalai

This book is a rendering in English of the Tamil epics ‘Silappadikaram’ and ‘Manimekalai’ written by renowned Tamil poets. Silappadikaram is the s…