Next Nobel Prize for Indian literature?
Which Indian language will have the distinction?
Kannada or Bengali, Malayalam? Tamil has no chance! So too Hindi & others!
As I finished writing on Tagore and Yeats my thoughts turned to contemporary Indian literature.
The Indian language literature. One of my recent preoccupations has been to promote Tamil, my mother tongue, its current literature to reach an all Indian audience, if not an international audience.
The Tamils are very proud people, proud about their 2,000 odd years of ancient literature, Tamil being a classical language on par with Sanskrit and other languages.
Yet, the current Tamil literary scenario leaves one rather bewildered if not down right sad and angry at once. The Dravidian politicians and their henchmen, some of these are poets, film poets and others and also the Tamil scholars are all thoroughly brain-washed by selfish interests in the political arena.
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