Singapore parliamentarians paid their tributes to Tamil translator Palaniappan Arumugum, who died on May 4 at the age of 73 after serving the Houses for more than three decades. The House fell silent ...

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 ...

“I think that most readers – and again I’m excepting the specialist reader or indeed the discriminating and sensitive reader – don’t understand what exactly is involved in a translation. They can’t ...

Forced to retire from the literary life following protests by caste-based groups against his 2010 novel Mathorubhagan, award-winning Tamil author Perumal Murugan was “resurrected” by the Madras High ...

CHENNAI: For Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma, the Japanese American who translated the Tirukkural to English, the journey to discovering Tamil and its literary treasures began when his dream of travelling to ...

CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu Textbook and Education Services Corporation will translate 600 books on a variety of subjects from other languages into Tamil over next three years to develop the language, ...