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Aalavandhan was ahead of its time then; how about now?
After Rajinikanth re-released his 2002 film Baba in 2022, which unfortunately became a damp squib again, like 20 years ago, his peer Kamal Haasan is set to come back with a digitally toned-up version of his 2001 film ‘Aalavandhan’, also a box-office dud back in the day. The film’s producer...
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 the family known as...
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 villages of the Western Ghats,...
Her choice: How Jamuna didn’t become a Savitri
This story was published in 2018 'Mahanati' Savitri continues to be in the news, perhaps for the reason that she was the greatest female actress of an era in which the 'superstar' tags were alien, or perhaps for the ugly fight between siblings taking pot-shots at each other to keep their...
What controversy? Pathaan just a good ole spy-thriller
Hindi film Pathaan was in the eye of a storm before it hit the screens. The saffron bikini heroine Deepika Padukone wore dancing with hero Shah Rukh Khan had got on the nerves of the saffron brigade, which tried its best to protest against the film’s screening. However, the film saw the light...
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 Report (ASER). Sampath is the...
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 northwestern states of India,...
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 in rhythm, according to...
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 his enormous political...
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. Arvind was one among the...
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