Performing Grandpa’s Last Rites
A year after his passing, my family traveled to Varanasi to visit the famed Vishwanath Temple and ceremoniously deposit his […]
Culture: Chennai’s 2020 Kolam Contest
A photographic essay of the kolam contest held during Mylapore’s eighteenth annual Sundaram Finance Cultural festival By Balakumar Muthu RECENTLY
India: Music as an Expression of Soft Power
The annual Chennai Music Season is a prime driver by which India’s sophisticated musical tradition influences culture on a global
The Best Keeps Getting Better
BY ANANTHA KRISHNAN It’s the middle of December and the festival of music and dance that I have come to
The Globe Trotting Lord of Dance
BY MEERA VAYAPOOREE His powerful & dynamic dance performances have made him one of Bharata Natyam’s most important modern-day, international
Teaching with Zest and Zeal
BY KESAVA MALLIA Chanting mantras brings peace and prosperity, power and great fortune. May the whole world become prosperous, ”
God’s Slave
BY KESAVA MALLIA March 20, 1968: it was a dark day indeed for the priest at the Ratnagiri Hill Temple,
Chariot of the Gods
Stephen Parmley, Sunithi Narayan and Barbara Goodbody The crowd’s energy builds as the priest begins the recitation of sacred mantras.
Brick, Mortar Not Enough
By GOWRI SHANKER, CHENNAI Samy, as Tiru Tiruvanmiyur Ramasamy Chinnathamby is popularly known, is exceptional. How else would you describe