I grew up grasping the beauty of big Tamil words from the films of Sivaji Ganesan. I learnt from him that enunciating language with proper diction, delivery and dialect adds to a performance. The ...

At a time when there is a debate on the antiquity of Tamil, poet Vairamuthu has come out with a work that seeks to establish the ancientness and the literary glory of the language. Instead of ...

Tamil language schools are sprouting up across the country with the help of California Tamil Academy, teaching Tamil language and culture to children growing up in America. Related: Asian Immersion ...

Tamil isn’t just a language, it is an important identity of Tamil culture. The Sangam age literary work ‘Kalithogai’ has references to Lemuria continent, where it is mentioned as ‘Karodaiyaaru’. It ...

About two years ago, an English academic and his student, both interested in Tamil literature, attended a talk at Kalakshetra, the art hub of Chennai, by an Israeli scholar who has written a biography ...

Wherever you go in Sri Lanka, you will find Tamil. Its status as one of the official languages means it is on the currency, official signage and government notifications. Almost one in four Sri ...