The march of regional and English dailies to Tier II and III towns and cities continues this year as well. The focus shifts to the South this time, Tamil Nadu to be specific. It is learnt that The ...

Did you know that Tamil was the first Indian language to go into print? Come October, the Roja Muthiah Research Library in Taramani, Chennai, is gearing up to open a Museum of Print Culture that aims ...

The Centre’s Kashi Tamil Sangamam 4.0, an initiative celebrating the traditional and civilisational links between Tamil Nadu and Kashi, will begin in Varanasi on December 2. The fourth edition of the ...

Though printing technology came to India with the arrival of Portuguese at Goa in the middle of the 16th Century, it found resurgence in the early 18th Century at Tharangambadi, a coastal town in the ...

Andaman beaches to get around 150 shacks to become more livelier ...

Oddly, the next significant period in Tamil print culture isn't until the 1920s, with the rise of the novel, especially the crime and detective novel that the Tamil public heartily (even though middle ...

This edition marks the government’s strongest push so far to seed Tamil instruction outside Tamil Nadu and normalise ...

Documented history refers to Vocabulario Tamulico com a significa am Portugueza compiled by Antão da Proença printed in Goa in 1679 as the oldest Tamizh–Portuguese dictionary. Constanzo Giuseppe ...

CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu Textbook and Educational Services Corporation has revived a seminal work of Tamil history and literature. The Tamil Kalai Kanchiyam, an encyclopedia produced through the effort ...