From: sundar@indigo1.hsis.uci.edu (M. Sundaramoorthy)
Subject: TAMIL LITERARY SOCIETY
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 13 Oct 92 01:15:23 GMT

                            TAMIL LITERARY SOCIETY
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	This is a forum within SOC.CULTURE.TAMIL to discuss and promote 20th
	century Tamil Literature.

	This will include: 

        (1). Original works by the netters - like poetry, short stories etc.
        (2). Translations of poetry, short stories etc. by Tamil authors.
        (3). Reviews of Tamil novels, short story and poetry collections.
        (4). Critical essays - originals by netters and translations.
        (5). Perspectives on Modern Tamil Literature -  history, style, trend
             etc.
        (6). Discussion on related subjects like theatre and other art forms.
        (7). News clips on literary meetings, awards etc.
        (8). Interviews with writers and artists - conducted by the netters
             or taken from magazines.

	The articles will be edited and posted in SCT in a magazine format
	during the first week of every month. 

	The size of the issue will be about 15 to 20 pages. 

	The original contributions by the netters are encouraged as much as
	those by Tamil authors.

	The short stories may be submitted in translation. However, it is
	suggested to submit poetry in Tamil in transliteration, preferably
	accopmanied by the translation.

	Since ADAMI transliteration scheme seems to be popular among the 
	netters, it is suggested to type in the articles as close to ADAMI as 
	possible.  

	When submitting a short story or a summary of a novel, it is suggested
	to include excerpts for about a page from the original Tamil work,
	such that the readers can have a feel for the style, power of
	expression etc of the original author.

	Articles received till 25th day of every month will appear in the
	following issue.

	The issue will be balanced with articles of different type and 
	contributors, even if more of particular kind of articles (say
	poems) or from particular netter are received. The remaining will
	be included in the subsequent issues.  
 
	As a regular feature, there will be a profile of an author in every
	issue and the name will be announced in the previous issue, such
	that the netters can send whatever the information they know. The
	netters are also requested to suggest the authors for forthcoming
	issues. The first profile will be Na.Pitchamurthy, a pioneer
	of 'pudhu_k kavithai' in Tamil. Any information on him is welcome. 

	This announcement will be posted every month and will include
	any new suggestion by the netters. 

	Of course, the success of this venture will be in the hands of the
	input from the contributors and the feedback from the readers. 

	There may be a small editorial board with about five people to 
	work on this. From the response I received I like to suggest the 
	following names:

	(1). Arul Suresh, (2). Vigneswaran, (3) Sundara Pandian (4)
	Ramesh Vaidyanathan and (5). M. Sundaramoorthy.

	We need not be strict about this. Probably we can keep changing
	the people depending upon the interest and avalilability of time for
	the individual netters. 

	I look forward to the contributions from the netters and the first
	issue will be hopefully appearing in SCT during the first week of
	November.   

	Sincerely,
	M. Sundaramoorthy
	sundar@indigo1.hsis.uci.edu
	sundar@esv1.hsis.uci.edu 

P.S: 	  I received some useful information regarding creating PostScript
	  output. Any help to adopt the software on IRIS Indigo system will be 
	  appreciated. If and when succesful, the issues will be provided
	  in PostScript files with Tamil fonts. Please let me know if anyone
	  can help me.  

      
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