author, poet, teacher, and performer
I was honored to offer a talk in English and Tamil as the chief guest for the 2021 Awards Ceremony of the Tamil Literary Garden online on June 11, 2022.
Turn on subtitles for English translations of the Tamil sections.
You can also watch the complete Awards Ceremony here:
I invite you to learn more about my translation of the Kural as well as my translation of Avvaiyar, being issued in a second edition in 2022 by Red Hen Press.
I was delighted to discuss compassion, poetry, the Tirukkural, leadership, voice, silence, and much more with the wonderful Chloë Goodchild on her VOCE Dialogues Podcast.
You can listen to the podcast by way of this link:
Chloë is the founder of The Naked Voice, a pioneering experiential vocal training programme, providing a sound awareness toolkit of conscious core practices, music, audio-books and spoken meditations that empower you to find and to embody your authentic voice.
I was delighted to speak with Shruti Dixit on her podcast for the New Books Network about my new translation of THE KURAL: Tiruvalluvar’s Tirukkural.
You can listen to the podcast by way of this link:
Shruti Dixit is a PhD Divinity Candidate at CSRP, University of St Andrews, researching the Hindu-Christian Dialogue in Apocalyptic Prophecies.
THE KURAL: Tiruvalluvar’s Tirukkural was recently reviewed in Kajal Magazine.
You can read the full review on their website:
My thanks to Naheed Patel and Kajal Magazine for the reflections.
Read why I decided to translate the Kural in this excerpt from my preface on Beacon Broadside: A Project of Beacon Press.
You can read the excerpt on the Beacon Broadside website: https://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2022/01/how-i-embarked-on-a-literary-translation-of-the-kural-the-classical-tamil-masterpiece.html