Classical Tamil Love Poetry: Ainkurunuru or Five Hundred Short Poems

By M Nazir Ali

Ainkurunuru is a collection of five hundred poems written by five different poets who lived two thousand years before. It tells you the story of the lovers, their sadness, joy, jealousies, and quarrels in verses of breathtaking sophistication and indirection. It is about the art and life of a people almost irretrievably lost, found in palm script, and restored by scholars in love with the Tamil language.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing India
• Release date: Nov 29, 2013
• ISBN: 9781482801194

M Nazir Ali

M Nazir Ali has been teaching literature in the colleges of Pondicherry for more than two decades. His poems and articles have appeared in Indian Literature and Transfire, both devoted to translations. He lives in Pondicherry, a town with a great deal of French heritage, with his wife, son and daughter. He likes backpacking through rugged mountain paths while vacationing.

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