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Beyond the sabhas: Art meets activism
January 27, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
Third edition of Urur Olcott Kuppam Vizha democratises art forms & bridges gap between city and fishing villages Carnatic concerts by the beach, gaana in the sabha, choir music at the railway station – the…
January 27, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
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Boosting Tamil Nadu’s agriculture: Case for private investment
January 24, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
‘Land too fragmented in TN, needs to be agglomerated’ With a 62% deficit in the north-east monsoon, Tamil Nadu has been declared a drought affected state. Dr K Ramasamy , vice-chancellor of Tamil Nadu Agricultural…
January 24, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
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How to bring back Chennai’s green cover
January 24, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
Right planting methods will help reduce pollution The damage that cyclone Vardah caused to the green cover of Chennai can be taken as a lesson to rectify past defects and improve on future tree plantation…
January 24, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
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The monkey cap and a shivering Bengali
January 16, 2017, 10:02 AM IST
Kolkata is known as the ‘city of joy.’ But as winter approaches and temperature dips a bit, on those days, joy simply just goes out of the window. Reason is, all across the city of…
January 16, 2017, 10:02 AM IST
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Appwardly mobile
November 26, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
The neologism ‘webtrovert’ captures the split personality of social media addicts Ashish N, who works in a top IT company, has just been thrown out of his ‘official’ group. A typical techie, whose day begins…
November 26, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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Stage fright
November 26, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
Toxic chemicals in their makeup are affecting the performance and threatening to cut short the careers of many kathakali artists The thirasheela falls to re veal vividly-painted faces, as vandana shlokam and kelikottu resound in…
November 26, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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Burden of the body
November 26, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
One-act plays by women dare the audience to shift their gaze from performer to performance The actor is alone on stage, and the onus is on her to keep the silhouettes in the dimly-lit hall…
November 26, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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In Tamil literature, bitter rivalries echo state politics
November 25, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
Mags Uyirmmai and Kalachuvadu are poles around which controversies revolve In Tamil Nadu, literary publications – dubbed as ‘little’ magazines -have not just given a platform for writers but also a medium through which cliques…
November 25, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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Sari, favourite still, but in the wardrobe
November 25, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
When Indian architect and researcher Madhavi Indraganti alternately outfitted a $100,000 mannequin with saris and salwar-kurtis in a climate chamber in the US to study its insulation levels, her findings showed that the sari was…
November 25, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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Balamuralikrishna’s renditions evoked ecstasy in audience
November 24, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
So much has been written about M Balamuralikrishna’s idiosyncrasies, his demeanour, his love of cars, and love of good food. But, less has been spoken about the quirks that defined his music and his distinct…
November 24, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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‘I play by rules, Officials rivals don’t’
November 24, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
Mining baron denies allegations of plundering minerals, terms It conspiracy Acting on a PIL, the Madras High Court on Monday asked mining baron S Vaikundarajan to provide information on monazite mining in his quarries. Unfazed…
November 24, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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Time Dravidian rivals buried the hatchet
November 21, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
The Madras high court’s recent observation expressing concern over the prevailing politics of hate in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry vis-à-vis a fair degree of political tolerance in northern states, may have been a timely reminder…
November 21, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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On Facebook, writers turn trolls to market themselves
November 21, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
Social media a double-edged sword: Helps writers build fan base, but controversies have potential to end fertile careers too The Tamil literary world got a jolt when a defamation suit was filed against ‘Arutperun jothi’…
November 21, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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Theepori’s exit: Dousing the fire of ribald political oratory
November 15, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
Arumugam’s death marks shift; younger leaders shun sexual innuendo B Venkatesan’s literary novel, ‘Bagirathiyin Mathiyam’ (Bhagirathi’s Afternoon) opens with the documentary description of DMK’s star orator Theepori Arumugam’s speech in Madurai in 1974. Venkatesan says…
November 15, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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Madras’ milieu beheld from the eyes of a dewan
November 15, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
Although not a diarist in the strict sense, Nemali Pattabhira ma Rao, the dewan of erstwhile Cochin State, did maintain a personal diary . It was a small notebook bound with red hardcover with a…
November 15, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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Don’t fall for the MRP trap, ask for a rebate first
November 14, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
A recent piece in this newspaper analyzing the absurdity in the vast difference between the factory gate price and the Maximum Retail Price (MRP) of fireworks got me thinking about the failure of the MRP…
November 14, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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His pen breaks moulds, bleeds for the oppressed
November 14, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
Manushyaputhiran says poetry should be a social activity free from elitism When he moved from his village in Trichy to Chennai in 2000, Manushyaputhiran was full of apprehensions, thanks to the negative stories he had…
November 14, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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Stunt accident left him hairless and with plenty of roles
November 11, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
Actor A Rajendran’s completely bald head, lack of eyebrows and shaven look is unmistakable, almost impossible to forget. But that trademark look, says the 59-year-old, is the result of a stunt gone wrong 12 years…
November 11, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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Lyrics not mere musical fillers but strong devices that tell a story
November 11, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
Right blend of context, rhythm and diction in Bob Dylan’s poems makes him worthy of Nobel “Half a pound of tuppenny rice, Half a pound of treacle. That’s the way the money goes, Pop! goes…
November 11, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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Why automobile giants are shying away from Tamil Nadu market
November 9, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
Bottlenecks in decision-making & poor showing in ease of doing business ails industry It was once heralded as the Detroit of the south. With big ticket automobile investments flowing into the Oragadam-Irrungattukottai-Maraimalainagar belt and the…
November 9, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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