an effort to present different idioms of Tamil language and literature before a global audience, Madurai Kamaraj University will establish a Malaysian Tamil Literature Research Centre in a year’s time.Vice-Chancellor R. Karpaga Kumaravel said here on Monday that 60 per cent of the work was over and “we are regularly in touch with the Malaysian government and we will see to it that it is created soon.”The...
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China has banned 1,414 works of online literature on the grounds that it was of a pornographic nature in a nationwide campaign to eradicate lewd contents from the Internet.The move is the latest in a string of drives to crack down on pornographic and lewd content on the Internet.About 30,000 web links to the banned works and 20 online literature websites were closed after scrutiny of about 4,000 literature...
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Mayor Yallappa Kurbar paying tributes to saint poet Kanakadasa on the occasion of Kanaka Jayanti in Belgaum on Thursday.Delivering a lecture on the occasion, writer Jyoti Hosur said that Kanakadasa was not only a great saint, but also a poet who gave a philosophical dimension to his “Dasa Sahitya”.Kanakadasa, who was well-versed with contemporary literature, stood against injustices and added a new...
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China has banned 1,414 works of online literature on the grounds that it was of a pornographic nature in a nationwide campaign to eradicate lewd contents from the Internet. The move is the latest in a string of drives to crack down on pornographic and lewd content on the Internet.About 30,000 web links to the banned works and 20 online literature websites were closed after scrutiny of about 4,000 literature...
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banned 1,414 works of online literature on the grounds that it was of a pornographic nature in a nationwide campaign to eradicate lewd contents from the Internet.The move is the latest in a string of drives to crack down on pornographic and lewd content on the Internet.About 30,000 web links to the banned works and 20 online literature websites were closed after scrutiny of about 4,000 literature websites...
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The Pushkar Camel Fair is one of the most colourful annual festivals in India. Starting this year, a one-day literary event is being added to its busy calendar. On October 31, the Pushkar Literature Festival will bring together such writers as Namita Gokhale, Prasoon Joshi, Pavan Varma and the Urdu poet Sheen Kaaf Nizam over seven sessions that will explore the meeting points between contemporary literature...
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Exeter University is researching how a programme in which prison offenders read classic literature can help prevent reoffending.The Stories Connect course uses stories and poems from Shakespeare, Steinbeck and Dickens among others.It is already introducing offenders at Parc Prison in Wales and Feltham Young Offenders Institution to literature.It is based on the Changing Lives programme in the US, which...
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year's Nobel laureate in literature is preoccupied with oppression and the struggle to escape it....
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Periyar University organised a seminar on Creative Literature of K. Vezhaventhan, chairman of Ariviyal Tamil Mandram, here recently.Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Vezhaventhan called upon the student community to take more interest in learning Tamil literature.More students should come forward to learn Tamil language and spread awareness among people on its rich literary heritage, he added.There should...
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Department of Sanskrit, Calicut University, will organise an international seminar on ‘narrative techniques in Indian arts and literature’ on January 7, 8, and 9. Scholars from Italy, Poland, Germany, Russia, Czech Republic and the Netherlands will attend the seminar. C. Rajendran, Dean of Languages Faculty and convener of the seminar, said that the seminar would focus on narrative techniques developed...
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