Nobody knows the history, but every year Irulars from everywhere gather to celebrate their culture and traditions on Mahabalipuram’s shores

The search for modern names, the wish to be different and the need to kill caste markers have led to more Tamil kids now with Sanskrit names

Chennai autos have a striking sound. The beats may differ but the instrument is the same in the hands of Chintadripet’s ‘percussionists’

Kamal Haasan gives Gandhi’s khadi a modern spin with KH House of Khaddar, hopes to make freedom fabric fashionable

Political will, inclusive and collaborative approach a must for empowerment of Adivasis, says K Krishnan who works for tribal development

From a young age, Anbarasan was interested in the folk arts. He earned a living from his performances and funded his education. Now a teacher, he is trying to keep the traditional performing arts of the villages from dying out by training children.

Even robots are programmed not to harm humans, but we are failing to teach ethics to our children, poet Indiran says.

An ayurvedic prescription to cure her son’s cough led this mom to go in search of pure honey near her hometown on the foothills of the Nilgiris. There she discovered pure, unadulterated honey collected by the tribal people. Soon, she tied up with them to market the raw forest honey that they collected.

A techie who quit his job to travel across India, Siva Prakash from Madurai is back in his home state after 200 days with a wealth of experience. The most important among them, he says, is that travel opens the mind and destroys stereotypes about people.

Poet and freedom fighter Subramaniya Bharathi, as we know, was also a journalist. His reports on the devastating 1916 floods in Puducherry were recalled on inmathi.com during the Chennai floods last November. Bharathi was a keen journalist who had a vision about the profession and its...