The ongoing language war is a manufactured controversy designed to divide India along regional lines. The claim of “Hindi ...

Once reserved for the warrior caste, the ‘prestige’ associated with the act of Sati led to its proliferation. Until the ...

The confrontation over the National Education Policy (NEP) between the Tamil Nadu government and the Centre is setting the stage for the 2026 electoral battle in the state. While the Centre has ...

The three-language formula under the PM Schools for Rising India (PM SHRI) scheme that sets out to establish more than 14,500 exemplar schools has triggered a row between the Centre and the Tamil ...

Tamil superstar Vijay will today mark his party Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK)'s first anniversary with a grand public meeting at a private resort in Mamallapuram, a beach town near Chennai. The ...

Tamil Nadu's Stalin government replaced the rupee symbol with a Tamil letter for the state budget, sparking criticism from Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and BJP leaders. They argue ...

Online Tamil panchangam in Tamil and English for any place and any date between 1900 and 2050. This panchangam gives accurate information about the 5 attributes of the day, viz., nakshatram, tithi, ...

For over 20 years, archaeologists in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu have been unearthing clues to the region's ancient past. Their digs have uncovered early scripts that rewrite literacy ...

Tamil cinema has set the stage for a box-office battle with NEEK (Nilavuku En Mel Ennadi Kobam), directed by Dhanush, and Dragon, starring Pradeep Ranganathan. While NEEK offers a slice-of-life ...

While it is true that sati gave rise to lurid, often ridiculous propaganda in the colonial period—foreigners, part scandalised, part transfixed by it, gave it many strange origin myths—it was ...

In 1789, Benjamin Crowninshield, an American, wrote about a 'sati' in Bengal, jotting down details on the woman’s posture, the way Brahmins advised her to place her hands and so on. While he ...