Culture: Chennai’s 2020 Kolam Contest
A photographic essay of the kolam contest held during Mylapore’s eighteenth annual Sundaram Finance…
India: Music as an Expression of Soft Power
The annual Chennai Music Season is a prime driver by which India’s sophisticated musical…
The Best Keeps Getting Better
BY ANANTHA KRISHNAN It’s the middle of December and the festival of music and…
The Globe Trotting Lord of Dance
BY MEERA VAYAPOOREE His powerful & dynamic dance performances have made him one of…
Teaching with Zest and Zeal
BY KESAVA MALLIA Chanting mantras brings peace and prosperity, power and great fortune. May…
God’s Slave
BY KESAVA MALLIA March 20, 1968: it was a dark day indeed for the…
Chariot of the Gods
Stephen Parmley, Sunithi Narayan and Barbara Goodbody The crowd’s energy builds as the priest…
Brick, Mortar Not Enough
By GOWRI SHANKER, CHENNAI Samy, as Tiru Tiruvanmiyur Ramasamy Chinnathamby is popularly known, is…