Tuesday, June 01, 2010

News at Eleven: But as Derrida points out, all great works

like the Greek tragedies, Virgil's Aeneid, and Dante's Divine Comedy, have to survive only through their translations. Now that Tamil Sangam poetry has won a place alongside these world classics, it is imperative that it should get translated more and more into the leading languages of the world to sustain its status.

from The Hindu: An elegant translation of Sangam poems

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