Chennai: Google translates the Tamil sentence ‘oru paati vadai suttu vitru vandhar’ as ‘one grandmother was shot dead in a town’, when it should be ‘a grandmother made vada (a snack) and was selling ...

SINGAPORE - An English-Tamil glossary, the first of its kind with more than 4,000 common English terms and their corresponding Tamil terms, was launched on Saturday (Feb 3) by Senior Minister of State ...

Of the five novels shortlisted for the inaugural JCB Prize for Literature, two were translations, and one, Benyamin’s Jasmine Days, was the winner. The other was Perumal Murugan’s Poonachi: Or The ...