Through January, protesters gathered in huge numbers at Chennai’s Marina beach demanding that jallikattu — the sport that displays the virulent masculinity of the Tamil male — be made legal. While ...

In 'The Tamils', Nirmala Lakshman blends history, research, and personal insight to offer a rich, expansive look at Tamil society and culture.­ Photo: Thamotharan B Nirmala Lakshman, the publisher, ...

Identity. This one word can be said to drive our entire race, from the richest to the most oppressed. It is the fight for identity that forms the plot of the upcoming Karunaas-starrer Aadhaar, which ...

Oxford Tamil Society, a first-of-its-kind student organisation for people from the Tamil diaspora at the University of Oxford, has been ushering in a chapter of inclusivity and diversity CHENNAI: The ...

A political row has erupted in Tamil Nadu after 'Vande Mataram' was played before 'Tamil Thaai Vaazhthu' at CM Joseph Vijay's ...

The rich repository of Tamil heritage and culture has largely remained invisible to the wider world, said Nirmala Lakshman, Publisher and Chairperson of The Hindu Group of Publications, speaking at a ...

For C. Joseph Vijay, May 10 was meant to be the symbolic beginning of a new political chapter. The actor-turned-politician, ...

Bharatiya Janata Party leader Tamilisai Soundararajan on Thursday said Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin and his son, Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin, are diminishing the identity of Tamil ...

Tamil culture in Singapore is a hybrid culture, says Ms.Malini Radakrishna who is pursuing a PhD with Auckland University of Technology. Her research title is: How ethnic Indian creative workers ...

The 59-year-old actor-turned-politician has emerged as a lone political figure focused on Tamil nationalism, language pride and identity.