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Ancient to the Future

How director Mani Ratnam managed to adapt Ponniyin Selvan, a 2,500-page serialized historical epic and one of the bestselling Tamil novels of all time

Ancient to the Future

R. Emmet Sweeney
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We ask our amiable readers to kindly disregard the present, and climb into the boat of imagination, that we may take a little journey across time, unmarred by beginnings and endings.

—Kalki Krishnamurthy, Ponniyin Selvan, volume 1: Fresh Floods (translated by Pavithra Srinivasan)

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