I grew up grasping the beauty of big Tamil words from the films of Sivaji Ganesan. I learnt from him that enunciating language with proper diction, delivery and dialect adds to a performance. The ...

Tamil language schools are sprouting up across the country with the help of California Tamil Academy, teaching Tamil language and culture to children growing up in America. Related: Asian Immersion ...

Explore Periyar's controversial views on Tamil as a "barbaric language" and their implications for cultural identity and ...

At a time when there is a debate on the antiquity of Tamil, poet Vairamuthu has come out with a work that seeks to establish the ancientness and the literary glory of the language. Instead of ...

Tamil isn’t just a language, it is an important identity of Tamil culture. The Sangam age literary work ‘Kalithogai’ has references to Lemuria continent, where it is mentioned as ‘Karodaiyaaru’. It ...

Why Tamil Nadu will never compromise on its two-language policy? Speaking at a recent media conclave in Chennai, Tamil Nadu’s ...

About two years ago, an English academic and his student, both interested in Tamil literature, attended a talk at Kalakshetra, the art hub of Chennai, by an Israeli scholar who has written a biography ...