Tamil culture, history and language are essential for the future of India and are needed to be respected, said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on who is in Madurai to attend the traditional bull-taming ...

India, Sept. 28 -- Where stone towers rise in resilience and poetry outlasts empires, Tamil Nadu emerges as the living heart of the Dravidian world. Its legacy is etched not only in temples and song, ...

Author Nirmala Lakshman first fell in love with literature from the Sangam Age — a period in ancient South India that lasted from approximately 300 BCE to 300 AD — when she read poet AK Ramanujan’s ...

In 1577, nearly one-and-a-half centuries after the invention of the movable type printing press by Johannes Gutenberg, Tamil became the first non-Roman language to get printed. Doctrina Christam ...

Whether the Tamils were the original inhabitants of India or wanderers who came from the Indus Valley is not a settled question, said Nirmala Lakshman, author of The Tamils: A Portrait of a Community ...

CHENNAI: Chief minister M K Stalin said BJP and RSS were trying to erase the rich history of Tamil Nadu everyday despite abundant scientific evidence to back its glorious past.“When it comes to ...