From Kautilya and the Thirukkural to the Mahabharata, India’s strategic culture reflects a civilisational tradition of ...

From Kautilya and the Thirukkural to the Mahabharata, India’s strategic culture reflects a civilisational tradition of restraint, flexibility and calibrated force that cannot be judged by Western war ...

Tamil politics, dominated by larger-than-life former film stars, has kept me tethered to my mother tongue. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Chief Justice Parinda Ranasinghe. Today, as I bid farewell from this Court, I do so in the presence of his son, the Honourable Attorney General, Parinda Ranasinghe Jr. Public life rarely offers such ...

One of history’s most terrifying moments — The Cuban Missile Crisis — dissolved because Robert Kennedy understood that language can prevent destruction, that of diplomacy. In today’s world, the term ...

Critics argued that the Indian concept of time, cyclical and infinite, prevented long-term strategic planning. However, this criticism suffers from a blind spot, as it judges Indian strategy by ...

CHENNAI-Musical prodigy Lydian Nadhaswaram, who is ready to present his masterpiece ‘The Thirukkural 1330 – Musical Ethos’ to the world, has expressed his deepest gratitude to the over 1000 singers ...

Popular Tamil poet and acclaimed film lyricist Vairamuthu has been conferred the Jnanpith Award, the pinnacle of honour (also considered as Nobel Prize) for Indian literature.

The Sangam ethos, dated to the centuries BCE and likely deeper into time, was anchored in the immediacy of life, as we discussed earlier in the Akam and Puram context. Its poetry revolved around Inbam ...

Thousands of newly released emails tied to Jeffrey Epstein are raising disturbing new questions about who he may have really been working for. The documents repeatedly reference Vladimir Putin and ...

The timeless wisdom of Thirukkural is set to break new ground. The Central Institute of Classical Tamil (CICT) has commissioned its translation into four medium and minor Dravidian languages — Kurukh, ...