“She watched and waited as you emerged into this world”. These were grandmother Saraswathi’s words to me, as I was preparing for my arangetram. I was an excited nine-year-old who loved to dance and ...

India’s Great Nicobar megaproject threatens indigenous languages, ecology, and survival. A hidden linguicide unfolds amid “development.” Read why it matters now.

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Karthigai Deepam is an old Tamil Nadu lamp festival. People worship Lord Shiva and Lord Murugan on the occasion. They set clay lamps in every room so the house glows with light and prayer. One lamp in ...

The beauty of love songs, especially love songs in country music, is the feelings they evoke years, and sometimes even decades later. These three country love songs came out in the 1970s, but still ...

CHENNAI: The towering Raja Gopuram of Sri Uthira Ranganathar Temple, draped in pale green protective sheets, slowly starts emerging from the horizon. Zoom in, the dullness of the sheet is in stark ...

A lot of 1970s music was just good old-fashioned fun, while some of it was disturbing beyond all measure. One 1970s classic rock song tackled a deeply upsetting subject. However, it spoke about a ...

Palani Digambaram is not a politician known for grandstanding or abstract theorizing. As Deputy Leader of the Tamil ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Fleetwood Mac's "Silver Springs" debuts on a pair of Billboard ...