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Tamil poetry

Tamil has the longest continuous literary record of any Indian language — Sangam poetry predates most of what survives elsewhere by centuries — and a modern prose tradition that arrived late and then moved very fast. What collects here runs from the historical epics that everyone's grandmother read in weekly instalments to the spare, difficult fiction of the Tamil New Wave.

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