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    Chitra Pournami: Tamil epic heroine Kannagi’s idol portion missing for 50 years

    Pramila Krishnan
    12 May 2025 10:40 AM IST

    The upper half of the Kannagi idol, handed over to the DMK government for restoration in the 1970s, has remained missing; on Chitra Pournami (May 12), devotees to worship recreated idol

    Recreated Kannagi idol during the Chitra Pournami festival, which falls on May 12
    Tamil Nadu
    Garm Hava
    Films

    10 films that look at India-Pakistan relations with a different lens

    9 May 2025 10:32 AM IST
    Chithirai festival at the Meenakshi temple in Madurai
    Features

    How history, mythology, culture converge at Madurai's Chithirai festival

    8 May 2025 3:52 PM IST
    The Piprahwa Gems
    Features

    Piprahwa Gems: Sotheby’s halts sale of Buddha’s jewels; can India get them back?

    8 May 2025 6:30 AM IST
    G S Amur: The writer-critic who opened Kannada literature to the world

    G S Amur: The writer-critic who opened Kannada literature to the world

    8 May 2025 6:30 AM IST
    The Last of Us

    How The Last of Us turns an apocalypse into a meditation on care, moral survival

    6 May 2025 8:30 AM IST
    Why Chennai

    Will Chennai’s butter biscuits melt away under pressure of packaged snacks?

    4 May 2025 9:10 AM IST
    Indian teenagers

    How virtual world is driving India’s teenagers to anxiety and depression

    4 May 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Palestine

    Delhi exhibition showcases works of global artists in solidarity with Palestine

    3 May 2025 7:21 PM IST
    mayonnaise

    Why Tamil Nadu’s ban on raw-egg mayonnaise over health risks misses the point

    1 May 2025 4:40 PM IST
    Chef Shun Sato-Japanese-food

    Chef Shun Sato interview: What India can learn from Japan’s minimalist cuisine

    1 May 2025 2:20 PM IST
    Banu Mushtaq, author of Hearth Lamp

    How Kannada writer Banu Mushtaq shines a light on Muslim women’s struggles

    30 April 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Phule-Ananth-Mahadevan

    Ananth Mahadevan interview: ‘I want my films to speak the language of global cinema’

    27 April 2025 6:30 AM IST
    The Sky is Dirty-Spacejunk

    The Dirty Sky: Filmmaker OP Srivastava on why space junk is earth’s next big crisis

    26 April 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Magen David (Shield of David) synagogue

    What Kolkata’s synagogues reveal about the City of Joy’s Jewish heritage

    Ranjita Biswas
    24 April 2025 11:00 AM IST

    Though the number of Jews living in Kolkata has dwindled over the years, after descendants of early settlers migrated to Israel in 1948, the city...

    Jeyamohan talks about his memoir, Of Men, Women and Witches

    Jeyamohan interview: ‘Devastated by my mother’s death, I found refuge in writing’

    23 April 2025 2:01 PM IST
    Bookstores

    World Book Day: Bookshops in India will vanish unless government steps in

    23 April 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Latika Katt

    How Latika Katt chiselled a bold, modernist language for Indian sculpture

    20 April 2025 6:30 AM IST
    AI in films

    How Artificial Intelligence is shaping the future of Indian filmmaking

    19 April 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Food-FOMO-Restaurant booking

    How to eat out in Bangalore without losing your mind (or the table)

    17 April 2025 5:56 PM IST
    Parvathi Nayar

    Parvathi Nayar on how art helps us think about what it means to be human

    15 April 2025 9:08 PM IST
    Vivek Anchalia-Naisha

    Vivek Anchalia on Naisha, a full-length AI-powered film, and use of AI in filmmaking

    13 April 2025 7:30 AM IST
    Feminist Manifesto: Expat Malayalis’ play wins hearts at Thrissur theatre festival

    Feminist Manifesto: Expat Malayalis’ play wins hearts at Thrissur theatre festival

    12 April 2025 8:26 AM IST
    HeartLamp-DeepaBhasthi-Banu Mushtaq

    Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp makes it to International Booker Prize shortlist

    8 April 2025 10:38 PM IST
    Alpana-Bengal-floorart

    How Alpana, the floor art of Bengal, became a part of its culture milieu

    7 April 2025 11:00 AM IST
    Manoj Kumar

    Manoj Kumar obit: How the actor-filmmaker gave patriotism a face on screen

    5 April 2025 9:24 AM IST
    Kannada films, Sati Sulochana, Talkie

    The return of Sati Sulochana, the first Kannada talkie

    30 March 2025 8:02 PM IST
    DocuBay, The Dupatta Killer, Mahanand Naik

    Tracing the lives, hopes and end of the victims of The Dupatta Killer

    28 March 2025 2:12 PM IST
    Voice For The Voiceless, The Dalai Lama

    The Dalai Lama on how he fled his home in Lhasa after Chinese oppression

    27 March 2025 2:21 PM IST
    Hindu Nationalism in South India: Why a saffron surge is building in favour of BJP in Kerala

    Hindu Nationalism in South India: Why a saffron surge is building in favour of BJP in Kerala

    27 March 2025 10:47 AM IST
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