Chennai

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

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

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