[poetry] Akam ({indic|lang=ta|indic=அகம்|trans=akam}) is one of two genres of Classical Tamil poetry which concerns with the subject of love, the other ({indic|lang=ta|indic=புறம்|trans=puṟam}) concerns the subject of war. It can also be translated as eroticism and heroism. It is further subdivided into the five thinai. ...
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(from the article `South Asian arts`) In the Tolkppiyam and the anthologies, poems are classified by theme into akam (`interior`) and puam (`exterior`), the former highly structured love ...
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