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Premium Member Poem By Kasiananthan On the Tamil Diaspora and Eelam, Trans By T Wignesan
The Parrot and the Woodpecker may turn...
    [Sung by TEnicayccal Cellappa]        Translated by T.Wignesan
 
mAnkiliyum...

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Categories: tamil, history, nostalgia, political, pain,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Master Valluvan, the Long-Misunderstood Tamil Mentor - Part Two
Part Two


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Categories: tamil, on writing and words,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Limerick Crochetes: Once Tamil Promotion Director
Limerick crochetés: Once Tamil Promotion Director

Once Tamil Promotion Director
Excised wise Japanese co-founder
Called him names like rogue thief
Set himself up as Chief
All Dravidian Tamil Editor

He posed...

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Categories: tamil, character, integrity, motivation, pride,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Master Valluvan, the Long-Misunderstood Tamil Mentor - Part Three
Part Three

Whether or not relations with the uncultured enamour
Do not seek to succour what should sour

What does it matter if you gain or lose inferiors
Who...

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Categories: tamil,
Form: Free verse
Translation- Kamba Ramayanam
The peacocks dance
at grove near the cool pond;
and the lotuses brace
lamps like raised heads;

Nimbus clouds thrum
like loud drums;
and violet lilies scrutinize
the scene with bulbous eyes;

Hushed...

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Categories: tamil, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Additional Advice To Those Would Be King From the Thiruk-Kural With Commentary
Additional free advice to those* who would be King from the THIRUK-KURAL with Commentary
[*like presidents, prime ministers, dictators of declining (falling or fallen) nations or...

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Categories: tamil, bullying, immigration, prison, religion,
Form: Epigram



Mirza Ghalib Translations
Near Sainthood
by Mirza Ghalib
translation by Kanu V. Prajapati and Michael R. Burch

On the subject of mystic philosophy, Ghalib,
your words might have seemed deeply profound
and we...

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Categories: soulmate, spiritual, tamil, truth,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Niitthaar Perumai, the Fundamental Role of the Ascetic, Canto 3 of the Thirukkural By Thiruvalluvar
Niithaar Perumai, the Fundamental Role of Ascetics, Canto 26 of the Thirukkural, the Tamil Classical Treatise on Ethics, Translation and Commentary by T. Wignesan 


[Given...

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Categories: tamil, education, humanity, life, philosophy,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Thiru-Valluvar On Praising Ladies of Their Qualities: Canto 112 - Nalam Punainthu Uraiththal
Thiru-Valluvar on Praising the Good Qualiities of Ladies: Canto 112 - Nalam Pinainththu Uraiththal

[The poet devotes the third part of his treatise, the Thiruk-Kural to...

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Categories: beauty, culture, relationship, tamil,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member The Anatomy of a Kural: Maxim 245 of the Thirukkural By Thiruvalluvar
The Anatomy of a Kural: Maxim Number 245 (taken at random) of the Thirukkural, the Tamil Classic on Ethics by Thiruvalluvar 

allal arulaalvaarkku illai valivalangum

mallalmaa...

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Categories: tamil, education, metaphor, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Couplet
With Shoes On Feet
a grab-and-run pack
a small survival sack
with one set of clothes for spouse and self
passports, a file with just few mails
an old diary with addresses to...

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Categories: tamil, death, fear, freedom, holocaust,
Form: Free verse
My City
I live in a city of  a Indian state
where you can discern refreshing greeneries, that accommodate
the kingfishers,Rollers,peacocks,snakes and white cranes
Although rice is the major...

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Categories: culture, identity, tamil,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mnemonic Devices: Rhyme and Alliteration In the Thirukkural, Canto 4, K35
Mnemonic Devices: Rhyme and Alliteration in the THIRUKKURAL, a random example: Canto 4, K35 by T. Wignesan

alukkaaru avaavekuli innaacchol naangkum
ilukkaa iyanrathu aram (refined, shorn of...

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Categories: memory, poetry, tamil,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member To What Profound Penance Owe You This Boon, O Yashotha
To what profound penance owe you this boon, O! Yashotha! Translation of Oothukkadu Venkata Subbha Iyer’s enna thavam seithanai – yashOthA by T. Wignesan

To what...

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Categories: tamil, endurance, god, jealousy, religious,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Buoyancy Burden
While I was searching a book to read in my old school
Today maybe changed somehow modernized,
There were lot of rooms,
With many of the destitute instant...

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Categories: philosophy, remember, symbolism, tamil,
Form: Verse