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Tamil literature is a collection of literary works from a tradition spanning more than two thousand years. It covers various topics, periods and styles, from the ancient Sangam literature to the modern Tamil literary movement.
KS Maniam was born in Bedong, Kedah in 1942, of Tamil origin and from a poor family; his father was the launderer of a hospital and to feed his family, also had to work in a rubber plantation near Bedong. After a year in a Tamil school, he attended an English school. [1] Maniam had been writing from his early teens.
The Consortium points out that Unicode Tamil is now implemented by all major operating systems and web browsers, and maintains that it should be used in open interchange contexts, such as online, since tools such as search engines would not necessarily be able to identify or interpret a sequence of Unicode private-use code points as Tamil text ...
The Jaffna Public Library was a major library in Asia with over 97,000 books and manuscripts, mostly in Tamil. It was destroyed by a mob of Sinhalese rioters with police and government support in June 1981, as part of ethnic cleansing against Tamils.
A collection of eighteen poetic works in Tamil, mostly from the post-Sangam period. The term pathinen keel kanakku noolgal means "eighteen lesser books" in Tamil.
The Voynich manuscript is a 15th-century codex with unknown script and meaning, possibly written in Italy. It contains illustrations of plants, stars, people and recipes, and has been studied by codebreakers and cryptographers without success.
Azhagi is a software that allows users to type in Tamil, Hindi and other regional Indian languages using an English keyboard. It was developed by B. Vishwanathan and has won several awards and recognition for its user-friendly and innovative features.
Explanation for Mangulam Tamil Brahmi inscription in Mangulam, Madurai district, Tamil Nadu dated to Tamil Sangam period c. 400 BCE to c. 200 CE. Left: Tampiran Vanakkam ( Doctrina Christum ) was the first book in Tamil, printed on 20 October 1578.