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Professor A A Manavalan (1935-2018) taught in the Tamil Language Department of University of Madras, Chennai, and retired as Professor and Head. He was proficient in Telugu and Hindi also. His doctoral research was on the epic poetry of Kamban and Milton. He was a Visiting Professor for Comparative Literature in the Universities of Indiana, Columbia and New York, USA, under the Indo-American Cultural Exchange programme (1988-89). He has published research works on Tolkappiyam, Tamil Bhakti Literature, twentieth-century literary theories, comparative literary studies in epics, Sangam Tamil Literature, and world Tamil literary history. The book translated here, Ramakaathaiyum Ramayanangalum (vol. 1), published in Tamil in 2005 by the Institute of South Indian Studies, Chennai, was awarded the Saraswati Samman by the KK Birla Foundation, Delhi, in 2011.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The story of Rama has been a part of our lives for ever and will probably continue to be so\u2026. But most of us are unaware that the story has as many variations as there are versions. In the author\u2019s own words Valmiki\u2019s Ramayana has taken several \u2018incarnations\u2019 due to the efforts of many great writers who wanted to bring the story to their own people in their own language. In his book, Professor AA Manavalan, an eminent scholar in the field of comparative literature, has painstakingly made an intensive and analytical study of the Rama story in 48 languages including the folk tradition. Professor Manavalan\u2019s main focus is on how the receiving language\u2019s rendering could make a greater impact than the original in the popular imagination of the people. Ramayana – A Comparative Study of Ramakathas, an English rendition of Ramakaathaiyum Ramayanangalum, presented by CT Indra and Prema Jagannathan, captures the thematic purpose of Prof AA Manavalan\u2019s Tamil original and creates a forum \u2018to discuss whether Ramayana is an ethical text or an ideological text\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[1121,624,345,446],"product_tag":[1857,384,425,491,625],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kapot.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/40237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kapot.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kapot.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kapot.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kapot.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kapot.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kapot.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=40237"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kapot.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=40237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}