THANJAVUR: In the quiet corridors of Thanjavur, where centuries-old wisdom rests between brittle palm leaves and fading paper ...

VELLORE: The 99th birth anniversary of Tamil lyricist and poet Kannadasan was celebrated by Vellore Kamban Kazhagam in ...

A pro-Tamil party and a steadfast supporter of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the NTK has been demanding that the ban on toddy be lifted.

Island writer, poet, and translator Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma was recently honored in India with the 2025 Ancient Tamil Literature Promotion Award. He received the award in January at the Chennai ...

That speaker was Poet SD Sundaram, Tamil film lyricist, actor, dialogue-screenplay writer, and director of films as well as stage plays. SD Sundaram (henceforth referred to as Sundaram) was born on ...

The book brings out the fundamental fact that Tamil is more than just a language. It is part of the identity and pride. The ancient Sangam poetry, Thirukkural and poems of Avvaiyar and Bharathiyar ...

And in 2020 during her budget speech, she quoted from Thirukkural and also the verses sung by celebrated Tamil poet Avvaiyar. From Thirukkural she quoted the couplet “Piniyinmai selvam vilaivinpam ...

Avvaiyar, an ancient Tamil poetess, bemoans the loss of her friend, a local king, remembering his generosity in sharing his drink. After all, socialising and conducting business often involved ...

Come home to the Indian subcontinent and we find Avvaiyar, a Tamil poet of the third century, who interestingly was a people’s poet, roaming across the length and breadth of the land, as legend ...

NAGAPATTINAM: Chief Minister MK Stalin on Wednesday virtually laid the foundation stone for a memorial dedicated to Sangam-era poet Avvaiyar in Thulasiyapattinam village near Vedaranyam in the ...

But if you notice, even at that point of time, when, in the ADs and BCs, the whole cultural structure was all built by men, despite that, people like, Avvaiyar came up. Despite the large number of ...