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Bilingual readings at the British Council to mark Madras Day
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The Culture Café Theatre Circle and Oxford University Press present an evening of bilingual readings at 7 p.m. today at the British Council, Anna Salai.
Organised to celebrate Madras Day, the readings explore a range of Tamil literature that is rooted in the Tamil language but is Western in form — the original and the translated are juxtaposed to celebrate literature spanning a century.
When Mayavaram Vedhanayagam Pillai penned his "Prathaba Mudaliyar Charithiram", the first ever Tamil novel in 1879, the presence and the influence of the British on modern Tamil became evident. While the writing that followed developed a style of its own, it is only in recent times that translation has allowed access to some of these treasures in English.
The text has been compiled from The Fatal Rumour (1896), B. R. Rajam Iyer (translated by Stuart Blackburn), Muthumeenakshi (1903), A. Madhaviah (translated by Vasantha Surya), Sangathi (1994) and Bama (translated by Lakshmi Holmstrom).
Asim Sharma will read in English, while Pritham K. Chakravarthy, who has compiled the presentation, will read in Tamil.
For details, call 42050600.
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