Lately, whether you step into a modern café or scroll through social media, you can see people travelling back into memory in remarkable ways. Young women and men who were toddlers at the turn of the millennium now wear cargo pants slung…
We present here for our readers the appendix to Tharkanam – Zen Manam by V. Amalan Stanley, forthcoming from Tamilini. Drawn from Ajahn Amaro’s Sirupadagu – Maamalai: Iyalgira Mahamuzhumai Kuritha Theravada Sinthanaigal, which explains the shared outlook of Buddhism’s three schools—Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana (Tibet)—this appendix is offered in condensed form to aid readers’ understanding of Tharkanam – Zen Manam. ‘Often…
“I go in search of myself. It is in this search that my essence lies. The path I walk in the course of my search belongs to poetry.” These are words Pramil wrote in one of his reflections. The journey along the path of the arts is a journey towards essence. That is both the nature and the purpose of art. This foundation, shared by all the traditional Indian arts, in the Tamil land, in the modern age, as the modernist outlook and aesthetic entered the art of the novel…