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...If I am Syrian, what of it? Stranger, we all dwell in one world, not its portals. The same original Chaos gave birth to all mortals. —Meleager translation by Michael R. Burch Love, how can I ca......Read the rest...

...IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY : LX - LXI The Yijing says : " If the common folk commit crimes, the fault for them shall reside with this one person (i.e., the Sovereign) himself… " Transl. R. J. Lynn......Read the rest...

...Transl. of Eric Mottram’s A Faithful Private - 4 with a Clive Bush comment on Mottram's poetry Excerpt from an article, “From space to caves in the heart recreating the collective world in Eri......Read the rest...

...Transl. of Eric Mottram’s A Faithful Private - 2 with a Clive Bush comment on Mottram's poetry Excerpt from an article, “From space to caves in the heart recreating the collective world in Eri......Read the rest...

...Florilège of distichs from the THIRUK-KURAL: K129, K102 K129: thiiyinaal shutta*pun ullaarum aaraathE naavinaal shutta vadu* (*vadu (n.) = scar, ulcer; *shudu (v.) = burn) In ......Read the rest...

...K1087 and K1089 of Canto 109 of the THIRUK-KURAL: Thagaianangkuraiththal (In the transliterations, the capital vowels stand for the repetition of the same vowel: eg., “A” for “aa”) K1087: k......Read the rest...

...Book Three of the THIRUK-KURAL on Un-Authorised (concealed) and Authorised (religion-ordained) LOVE: Cantos 109 THAGAIANANGKURAITHTHAL to 133 (Note: Love between mainly the wedded pair from the......Read the rest...

...The THIRUK-KURAL on Women who know no bounds : Canto 92 – K913, K919 and K920 (Thiru-Valluvar comes down heavily on women of the « oldest profession in the world » in this Canto 92 consigned wi......Read the rest...

...On Praising Ladies on their Qualities in the THIRUK-KURAL: Canto 112, Nalam Punainthu Uraiththal, K1114 and K1120 [Please see "introduction on the plight of young girls" in the previous post on......Read the rest...

...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 INBATHTHUPPAAL, the amor......Read the rest...

...Impartial insight into Human Nature or intellectual Snobbery in Thiru-Valluvar's THIRU-KURAL: Canto 84 - PEETHAIMAI* [Note: Throughout his oeuvre, there can be found aphorisms which broadly hin......Read the rest...

...THIRUK-KURAL on not offending the Great*: Periyaaraip Pilaiyaamai - Canto 90, K899 and K900 [* The "Great" here are indifferently the King or other learned and wise people whom the King ought t......Read the rest...

...THIRUK-KURAL on not offending the Great*: Periyaaraip Pilaiyaamai - Canto 90 K895 and K897 [* The "Great" here are indifferently the King or other learned and wise people whom the King ought to......Read the rest...

...The THIRUK-KURAL highlights the role of the AMBASSADOR* as the King's Messenger-SPY: THUUTHU, Canto 69 [*THUUTHU in Tamil translates as ENVOY and principally connotes variously as: "messenger",......Read the rest...

...THIRU-VALLUVAR discourses on the duties of the King's Ministers* in the THIRUK-KURAL: AMAICCHU - K637 and K639 [* In presentday context, read as Minister(s) of State, Secretary of State, Special ......Read the rest...