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An independent imprint from Kuwait and Tamil Nadu. Contemporary Indian novels, humour, and the Tamil classics in faithful new editions.18 books available now
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Novels
Contemporary Indian lives, with all their private choices and public consequences.
Fair Value
Two people build a business and a marriage from nothing, then confront the difference between a market price and an honest worth.
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The Aisle Between
A Bombay bookshop meeting begins a fifty-year marriage across families, languages and cultures, through births, losses and the work of staying together.
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The Seed Vault
After four failed monsoons, a seed keeper hears competing village petitions for one sack of drought rice and must decide who receives it.
Painted chapters in the appThennur World & the Armchair books
Small-town life, armchair opinions, and the everyday business of being human.
Infinite Laughter, Endless Bargains
A Gujarati dealer and a Marwadi bargain their way through jokes and adventures in everyday English.
The Emerald cycle
Love and longing in stories drawn from the Thirukkural’s Kāmattuppāl.
The Quiet Symphony of Secret Love
Stories of first glances, unspoken signs and secret meetings bring the Thirukkural's verses on love before marriage into Tamil Nadu lives.
Painted chapters in the appEternal Whispers of Love — Part 1: The Quiet Strength of Marital Love
Stories of marriage, separation, loneliness and memory bring the Thirukkural's marital verses into ordinary Tamil households.
Painted chapters in the appThe Quiet Strength of Marital Love — Part 2
Stories of dreams, longing and lost composure follow the Thirukkural's marital verses through the lives of Tamil households.
Painted chapters in the appThe Quiet Strength of Marital Love — Part 3
Stories of unspoken messages, quarrels and reconciliation embody the closing love verses of the Thirukkural in Tamil Nadu settings.
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Emerald Flowers
Two hundred and fifty stories bring the Thirukkural's love couplets into the lives of couples across ancient Tamil country.
Painted chapters in the appLa Sinfonía Silenciosa del Amor Secreto
A Spanish-language volume of love stories belongs to the fiction cycle inspired by the Thirukkural.
Tamil classics, in Tamil
The Tamil canon, with its meaning brought into view for readers today.
Thirukkural: Meypporuludan — Thoguthi 1
The opening Thirukkural volume presents the section on virtue, covering couplets 1–380 in Tamil.
Thirukkural: Meypporuludan — Thoguthi 2 / திருக்குறள்: மெய்ப்பொருளுடன் — தொகுதி 2
The first Porutpaal volume covers governance, education, wisdom and diplomacy through Tamil verses, word meanings, direct meanings and commentary.
Thirukkural: Meypporuludan — Thoguthi 3 / திருக்குறள்: மெய்ப்பொருளுடன் — தொகுதி 3
The second Porutpaal volume explores nationhood, friendship, citizenship and character through Tamil verses, word meanings, direct meanings and commentary.
Thirukkural: Meypporuludan — Thoguthi 4 / திருக்குறள்: மெய்ப்பொருளுடன் — தொகுதி 4
The Thirukkural section on love explores union, separation, longing and reconciliation through Tamil verses, word meanings, direct meanings and commentary.
Auvaiyar: With True Meaning / ஔவையார்: மெய்ப்பொருளுடன் — முழுப் பதிப்பு
Auvaiyar's five ethical works appear with original Tamil verses, word meanings, contemporary meanings and commentary connecting them to daily life.
Thirukkural: Meypporuludan — Muzhu Pathippu / திருக்குறள்: மெய்ப்பொருளுடன் — முழுப் பதிப்பு
All 1,330 Thirukkural couplets appear in one Tamil volume with the original verses, word meanings and commentary.
Thiruvachakam: Meypporuludan — Muzhu Pathippu / திருவாசகம்: மெய்ப்பொருளுடன் — முழுப் பதிப்பு
Manikkavasagar's devotional work appears in a complete Tamil edition with all 661 verses, word meanings, direct meanings and commentary.
The True Purport
English translations and commentaries that stay close to the Tamil originals.
Thirukkural: The True Purport — Complete Edition
All 1,330 Thirukkural couplets appear in English with transliteration and commentary, opening Tiruvalluvar's moral vision to a continuous reading.
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Simha Foundry is an independent imprint rooted in Kuwait and Tamil Nadu. Its shelves bring together contemporary Indian fiction, humour, and faithful new editions of the Tamil classics.
Its founder, Krishna Prasad Sundaram, grew up in Coimbatore. A former professor of computer science, he has spent more than two decades in information technology and works in enterprise data management.
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