As a seat of ancient Tamil glory with a thousand-year heritage, the composite district of Thanjavur should have received the highest attention from latter-day governments, but except for the Brihadeeswara Temple complex, a UNESCO heritage site of international importance, it is just another...
Epigraphist and archaeologist S Ramachandran has written widely on epigraphy – notably on the upper cloth revolt and the Tranquebar manuscripts, among other topics. His discovery of an anchor, midsea at Tranquebar, with the help of fishermen is considered a milestone in oceanic archaeology....
Ponniyin Selvan sticks to the script. It's less a Mani Ratnam movie and more a faithful adaptation of Kalki's novel. Raja Raja Chozhan was a glorious emperor, about whom Kalki wrote a well-researched story Ponniyin Selvan in the early 1950s – serialized in the Kalki magazine for nearly...
Parthiban Kanavu and Raja Raja Cholan, two Chola themed movies, proved to be duds in the box office. Boasting of big stars, big writers and grand themes, they came a cropper. And some of the elements that proved to be the nemesis of those films are there in Ponniyin Selvan too. Ponniyin Selvan...
