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Drop it like a hot potato: Boiled good, french fries bad
Is potato good for health or not? Some vouch for the potato’s health benefits such as being able to prevent cancer. But others say the tuber is anything but healthy. So, which is it? Potato, one of the world’s important food crops, is a perennial plant belonging to...
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Nilangaraiyan refers not just to a posh area on ECR but chieftains of ancient Chennai
Inscriptions of Chennai in the 13th century make frequent references to certain chieftains or officers called Nilagangaraiyans and their philanthropic activities. They seem to have been intimately connected with Chengalpattu district as a whole, and their activities...
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Some forest tribes celebrate Pongal to honour elephants
The Pongal festival ingrained in the popular imagination conjures up images of cooking rice in an open fire, buffaloes and cows being decorated and celebrated and people meticulously arranging sugarcane, turmeric leaves, flowers and other paraphernalia. In tribal...
Why TN kids have poor basic learning skills as per ASER
Educationist Dr Balaji Sampath in an interview with inmathi.com as part of its ‘Vaerkaanal’ (Finding Roots) programme, sheds light on why Tamil Nadu primary school students have fared poorly in learning and arithmetic in the survey of the Annual Status of Education...
Hard climate ahead for a few years: What TN can do
After several years of water prosperity through the monsoon months, the alarm has been sounded globally that some periods of 2023 and all of 2024 could bring unpredictable climate due to the return of the El Nino phenomenon — extreme heat, drought, and in some...
As a child, Palani Subbudu watched, learnt, like Ekalaivan
Mridangist Palani Subramaniya Pillai came from a family of stalwarts. His father Palani Muthiah Pillai was seeped in the Pudukottai style of mridangam that had by then blossomed into a distinct school. Muthiah Pillai was an exponent of its thavil-inspired laya, depth...
Promising jallikattu bull tamer Arvind Raj gone too soon
As the winter sun was gradually turning intense in the sky, it seemed like everything was falling into place for 25-year-old Arvind Raj on Monday. The annual Pongal jallikattu was gaining pace and it was his home turf, as the youngster hailed from Palamedu village. ...
Why did Bharati hide in Puducherry for 10 yrs?
Born in Puducherry, historian Dr J B Prashant More developed an interest in the life of iconic Tamil poet Subramania Bharati, who stayed incognito in Puducherry from 1908 to 1918. More has written books on the life history of the poet in French, English and Tamil....
MGR crafted his style on Douglas Fairbanks, Errol Flynn
The acronym MGR still inspires awe even after 35 years since the demise of the Tamil cultural icon Maruthur Gopalamenon Ramachandran (1917-1987). MGR lives on in Tamil cinema and politics. His stellar 42-year-long film career from 1936 to 1977 went hand in hand with...
Promising jallikattu bull tamer Arvind Raj gone too soon
As the winter sun was gradually turning intense in the sky, it seemed like everything was falling into place for 25-year-old Arvind Raj on Monday. The annual Pongal jallikattu was gaining pace and it was his home turf, as the youngster hailed from Palamedu village. ...
Posters sans heroines expose filmdom’s male chauvinism
Recently wall posters carrying the faces of Ajith and Vijay appeared all over the state to promote their much-hyped Pongal films Thunivu and Varisu. Not only in posters but also in ads published in dailies, banners and even on social media, the macho heroes alone...
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