mAllai mAttu, 2023
Double accordion book, handmade papers
The first of 11 palindrome verses written in the 7th C by the Tamil poet
Thirugnanasambandar. This kind of palindrome verse is categorized as a mAllai mAttu
(மாலை மாற்று), an exchanged or reversed garland.Reads in 8 directionsTranslations into modern Tamil and English by Kamakshi NarayananMirrored text