The 900-year old Belur Chennakeshava Temple is one of the greatest treasure-houses of Indian art, architecture and sculpture, all of which was accomplished by the motivation of Sanatana piety. This es ...
How Jawaharlal Nehru's lifelong obsession for seeking validation from the White Man enabled large scale conversion activity by Christian missionaries in India
The daily routine and conduct of Nalla Pillai, the schoolmaster of Kelambakam offers an extraordinary glimpse into a one-man institution of nation-building, which has now become extinct.
A brief history of the liquor industry in the 17th Century Mughal Empire and its interactions with the European trading merchants reveals a rather stark picture
Maha Vaidyanatha Sivan's untimely death was a huge blow for his brother, Ramaswami Sivan. He wrote an unfair book castigating greats like Patnam Subramania Iyer in order to uphold his own death brothe ...
