Tamil writer Cho. Dharman has won the 2019 Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel Sool, depicting the life of the ordinary people, traditional knowledge, agricultural practices and water management.

Dharman’s stepmother helped with the children, but it became too much for her after the second child was born, according to court documents. Kamalakannan moved with the kids to be closer to her ...

When Cho Dharman’s ‘Koogai’(The Owl) appeared in Tamil in 2005, the novel threw up disturbing images of the ‘karisal’ (black cotton soil) region of southern Tamil Nadu. CHENNAI ...

Congress MP and writer Shashi Tharoor, playwright Nand Kishore Acharya and Tamil writer Cho Dharman are among 23 writers chosen for the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award 2019. Tamil writer Cho ...