blaft, to random
@blaft@mastodon.social avatar

A few stories have been moving into Indian languages recently. Novelist Hansda Sowvendra Shekar translated "Paavai" (from Manickavel's 1st collection, Insects Are Just Like You and Me Except Some of Them Have Wings) & published it in in last month, and Appadurai Muttulingam has a translation of "The Statue Game" in .

https://www.andhimazhai.com/literature/short-stories/silai-vilaiyattu

Great to see this happening!

ncoca, to Osaka
@ncoca@social.coop avatar

There's an festival???!!?!?!

WOW!

https://osakatamilfilmfestival.jp/

tshrinivasan, to random Tamil
@tshrinivasan@mastodon.social avatar

டொரண்டோ பல்கலைக் கழகம் ஸ்கார்புரோ வளாகத்தின் நூலகக் குழுவுடன், கணியம் அறக்கட்டளை இணைந்து
சோவியத் ரஷ்யா மின்னூல்களை வெளியிட்டுள்ளோம்.

இலவசமாகப் பதிவிறக்கம் செய்யலாம்.

https://tamil.digital.utsc.utoronto.ca/61220/utsc79617

அறிக்கை -
https://kaniyam.com/releasing-tamil-books-from-soviet-publishers/

#SovietRussia #Tamil #Ebooks #scanning #USSR

icg937, to japanese Spanish
@icg937@mstdn.social avatar

That moment when you're learning , and you wonder "How to say 'United States' in Japanese?", and someone answers "アメリカ". Son of a b*tch, I didn't wonder how to say , I wondered how to say :ablobcatgooglymlemjumping: 🤡

icg937,
@icg937@mstdn.social avatar

More ways to say or o or other variants in , and :

  • Mwanamume uliyezungumza naye - una uhakika alikuwa Mmadola?
  • जिस आदमी से आपने बात की - क्या आप निश्चित हैं कि वह राज्यन था?
  • நீங்கள் பேசிய மனிதர் - அவர் நாடுகலியர் என்று உறுதியாக இருக்கிறீர்களா?
blaft, (edited ) to 13thFloor
@blaft@mastodon.social avatar

are available from the Blaft website, from Smashwords, or from the muchtoolarge retailers. Can we interest you in a supernatural in English ? from the state of on India's border with Myanmar? Bonkers slipstream short fiction from Kuzhali Manickavel? An encyclopedia of and ?

https://www.blaft.com/collections/ebooks

https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/blaft/newest#published

altlife, to art
@altlife@me.dm avatar
indianewswatch, to srilanka
@indianewswatch@kolektiva.social avatar

‘War? In this land? / Who told you?’: There’s a new anthology of Sri Lankan poetry in translation

Excerpt from ‘Out of Sri Lanka: Tamil, Sinhala and English Poetry from Sri Lanka and its Diasporas,’ edited by Vidyan Ravinthiran, Seni Seneviratne, and Shash Trevett.

https://scroll.in/article/1062155/war-in-this-land-who-told-you-theres-a-new-anthology-of-sri-lankan-poetry-in-translation

blaise, to Jewish
@blaise@hachyderm.io avatar

Many years ago, I had a tutor in Palo Alto. She had two PhDs and was a pandit in (I discovered this later, she never mentioned it). Her husband was nearly as distinguished (their son had not yet won the prize for chemistry.

Across the street lived her daughter and Ashkenazi American husband, both professors.

🧵

Private
AnnalesHSS,

How did a Portuguese become a saint, whose worship is still strong today?

In a stunning fine-grained, , Margherita Trento (EHESS) weaves together all the threads of the and of a Jesuit in the early-modern encounter in the south of the subcontinent.

👉 "Martyrdom, Witnessing, and Social Lineages in the Tamil Country (17th-18th c.)": https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/annales-histoire-sciences-sociales-english-edition/article/abs/martyrdom-witnessing-and-social-lineages-in-the-tamil-country/8C80008A9F920E96A26AFD64CCB77A83

@histodons

georgetakei, to random

White supremacy, racially motivated hate crimes, and the murders of racial, religious and sexual minorities don’t happen in a vacuum. They are encouraged, given life, and ultimately driven by leaders who knowingly deploy the terror to advance and increase their own power.

rameshgupta,
@rameshgupta@mastodon.social avatar

@georgetakei

Not limited to #white #supremacy.

#Tamil language bigots like MK #Stalin, CN #Annadurai, TT #Krishnamachari, Periyar EV #Ramasamy, and #Maraimalai #Adigal indulged in #linguisticCleansing to Make Tamil Pure Again and hasten the extinction of #Sanskrit.

They engaged in #militant rhetoric, such as language #imperialism and #enslavement, leading their followers to death by #selfImmolation, #poisoning, and #rioting while they themselves stayed away like #Trump did on #Jan6.

#India

indianewswatch, to history
@indianewswatch@kolektiva.social avatar

Interview: Prof Ganesh Devy on attempts to distort history and his battle to preserve it

Eminent linguist and historian Prof. Ganesh Devy spoke to The Federal during his recent visit to Chennai for a discussion on the book, 'Indians: histories of a civilisation'.

In this freewheeling chat, the historian talks about this book of which he is one of the editors; he also touches upon the central government's attempts at rewriting history and on the imposition of Hindi. Placing Tamil language's heritage in the global context, Prof Devy argues why the BJP government's approach towards language is dangerous and needs to be countered.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eth-mRAzDr4

rameshgupta,
@rameshgupta@mastodon.social avatar

@indianewswatch

Article 343(1) of the Constitution of (adopted in 1950) says is an official language of the Union.

Who is rewriting history?
Why go back only 12000 years or only 15000 years? Why not go back to the time man was a monkey and grunts were the natural language?

rameshgupta,
@rameshgupta@mastodon.social avatar

@indianewswatch

How does a LANGUAGE people? Are we enslaved by ?

of predates independence of . started Thanith Tamil Iyakkam (Independent Tamil Movement) in 1916.

Putting Tamil hostility toward under umbrella of is deceptive & distracting.

Real goal of Tamil language has ALWAYS been to strip out & exclude ALL INDIGENOUS languages, including , from Tamil.

rameshgupta,
@rameshgupta@mastodon.social avatar

@mykhaylo @indianewswatch

propaganda is following propaganda, and is just as cancerous.

Current Chief Minister of () got his name from his dad who was mourning the death of leader Joseph Stalin.

Imagine naming one's own child after a murderous who shook hands with under the during WWII.

That's the power of Soviet propaganda.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._K._Stalin

indianewswatch, to india
@indianewswatch@kolektiva.social avatar

The history of anti-Hindi imposition movements in Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu’s stance against the Three-Language Policy goes all the way back to the pre-Independence era.

#TamilNadu #AntiHindiAgitation #history #hindi #HindiImposition #DravidianMovement #ThreeLanguagePolicy #DMK #periyar #EVRamasamy #CNAnnadurai #congress #history #india

https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/history-anti-hindi-imposition-movements-tamil-nadu-102983

rameshgupta,
@rameshgupta@mastodon.social avatar

@indianewswatch
continue to each other just as before . Learned NOTHING from fights that opened door to . blames for as if Indians had no agency of their own. did not need to a country that was already divided along and lines.

Is the preventing anybody in from learning or is it just that they can't stand ?

ncoca, to Japan
@ncoca@social.coop avatar

So has now been released in with a dub.

This is after it was released in with Japanese subtitles.

This means that the highest grossing movie of all time has yet to be screened to the public, in Japan, in its original language .

iammannyj, to indiegames
@iammannyj@fosstodon.org avatar

Indie game Venba serves up Tamil cuisine and family's heartfelt story of life in Canada

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/venba-game-review-1.6917108

eggplantshow, to gamedev
@eggplantshow@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar

New episode! 🎙️🍆

121: Developing Your Taste with Abhi (Venba)

We're joined by Abhi to discuss Venba - Visai Games' short narrative cooking game about family, love, and loss. We discuss uniting narrative and gameplay, making a very personal game in a commercial industry, and creating a cooking experience with its own distinct flavor.

Links to listen and show notes here: https://eggplant.show/121-developing-your-taste-with-abhi-venba

testing, to literature

from pritham chakravarthy's old blog: a translation of a short story by charu nivedita

testing, to random

no secret: my love for charu nivedita before he went astray

testing, (edited )

charu nivedita's transgressive novel zero degree was fabulously translated by pritham chakravarthy, and published by @blaft in 2008

though charu nivedita has always been critical of the english translation, as he thought it insufficient because it was not a lipogrammatical translation inspired by oulipo, it is due to pritham chakravarthy and blaft that he became an internationally renowned author

abishek_muthian, to mastodonindians

Daughter of daily wager scored 600/600 in the 12th grade board exams in Tamizhnadu.

Thank goodness she studied commerce, Because she wouldn't probably have translated this success on NEET (Medical Entrance Test) if she had chosen science.

Because, Entrance test coaching are for the privileged and hence Tamizhnadu people & govt. opposes NEET for social equity.

https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/tamil-nadu-daily-wager-s-daughter-scores-600-600-in-class-12/ar-AA1aUPrB

@mastodonindians

matratype, to random
@matratype@typo.social avatar

This year has been a reminder to tend to the little spaces on the internet I call my own with more care, starting with https://indiastreetlettering.com/.

I set up this website years ago to collect photographs I take of street lettering around the country, but I’ve been terrible at keeping it up-to-date. That changes now. And if I can keep myself motivated, I’ll share a picture from it here every week 🤞🏼

matratype,
@matratype@typo.social avatar

When I visited Chennai five years ago, I spent a morning photographing signs for hardware stores in George Town. Among them was this one for Quality Machine Tools, which featured the most delicious, high-contrast Tamil lettering.

📍 George Town, Chennai
📅 March 2018
🔗 https://indiastreetlettering.com/quality-machine-tools/

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