Is there a Tamil equivalent of ‘netizen’, ‘hotspot’ or ‘groupfie’? The answer would have been no until a year ago. But a Tamil Nadu government project to create a word bank now has an appropriate ...

Varsha — @ uyirmei.jpg on Instagram — paints with words placed at the tip of the brush, not figuratively at all. A Chennai-based landscape architect and graphic designer, she paints with the Tamil ...

This year we stayed overnight at a friend’s place for Thanksgiving and the next day, as we were about to leave, he popped into my hand a few books from his elegant library. All of them translations of ...