It is a cool December morning as my car races towards Tirupungur, Nagapattinam District. We have lost our way twice and as the day advances, I get increasingly anxious. If I don’t reach before the mid ...

Sridevi Nrithyalaya’s dance production, ’Siva Nava Bhakthi’ premiered at Vani Mahal, T. Nagar.

All Hindus have the right to freely enter a temple. But Nandanar, a Dalit saint in 8th century Tamil Nadu, was not allowed this basic right until extraordinary events enabled it. Though India is home ...

Twenty-five years is not a long time in the Hindu scheme of things. Think of Amba’s years of austerity so that she could be reborn to take her revenge on Bhishma in the Indian epic “Mahabharata.” But ...

Of all the silent and talking film versions of the Gopalakrishna Bharathiar’s immortal musical, ‘Nandan Charitram,’ the most successful one was the S. S. Vasan - Gemini Studio production of 1943, ...

In Rajiv Menon’s Sarvam Thaala Mayam, which is being streamed on Netflix, Johnson (Kumaravel), who crafts percussion instruments for a living, asks his son, Peter (GV Prakash), to deliver a mridangam ...

In a world that seems to be growing more intolerant, I still have hope that things will change. History shows us they always do – whenever oppression, bigotry and prejudice became common, arts, music ...

The year began, not with festivities, but with a festival. Every year my mother announces Thiruvathirai, and every year I stop myself from asking, ‘What’s that?” This time, to remind myself what the ...

Acharya Deepa Narayanan Sashindran and the Kuchipudi Parampara Foundation presents Nandanar Charitam, a Kuchipudi art performance. The tale focuses on two boons attributed to Nandanar who, hailing ...

Tension prevailed in the temple town of Chidambaram on Wednesday afternoon after over 450 CPM cadres led by MLA K Mahendran attempted to storm into the Chidambaram Nataraja temple in a bid to open the ...