One day the scholar/poet A.K. Ramanujan was sifting through stacks of uncatalogued books in University of Chicago's library. He stumbled upon an anthology of around 400 classical Tamil poems that deal with love and separation, the Kuruntokai. The Kuruntokai itself is a part of a larger work, the Ettutokai, which consists of 2,371 poems by around 470 [...]