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Tamil

Kamal Haasan’s Sorry and the Cost of Offence

Open

Several recent cases highlight how India walks on a free speech tightrope

The Memory Gap

The case for Tamil in UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register

Being Tamil

Tracing the cultural evolution of a state

The Southern Spectacle

Tamil and Telugu films are raking in the money, impressing critics and creating fans across the country

Nowhere Man

In his novel about a Sri Lankan migrant in Australia, Aravind Adiga makes the reader care with his well-earned facts

The Language of a Simulated Storm

The national language deserves better instead of the periodic barbs of its alleged imposition

The Tamil Mind

A cultural study extending from Periyar to Cho

Perumal Murugan: Down to Earth

Tamil author Perumal Murugan makes his readers partners in the life of the peasant and the possibilities of nature

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