In the absence of a Rosetta Stone-like artefact – which helped scholars decode Egyptian hieroglyphics – and a lack of bilingual texts, making sense of the Indus script remains a big challenge.

BJP dispensation’s move to make Sage Agasthyar the KTS 3.0 focus has been seen by the Dravidian camp as a fresh bid to ...

She also highlighted the journey of Italian Jesuit priest, Roberto de Nobili, to India as an example of assimilation. “He ...

In The Tamils, author Nirmala Lakshman draws from a wealth of historical information, original research, and her own keen ...

The Cholas were a powerful south Indian dynasty known for military conquests, grand temples and shaping global trade and ...

CHENNAI: On the second day of the Chennai International Book Fair, Sahitya Akademi Award-winning writers Imaiyam and AR ...

CHENNAI: A juvenile white-rumped vulture, a critically endangered species listed on the IUCN Red List, was electrocuted near ...

The 26-year-long civil war between the Sri Lankan government and the LTTE officially ended in May 2009 after claiming around 70,000 lives and displacing four times as many. Both sides committed a ...

The history showed that ruling parties win bypolls in the state by orchestrating 'regrettable politics' in an anti-democratic ...

CHENNAI: In a tragic incident, a one-year-old juvenile White-Rumped Vulture, a critically endangered species listed on the ...

Historian Anirudh Kanisetti’s new book, Lords of Earth and Sea: A History of the Chola Empire, is filled with revelations ...

(From left) David Davidar, publisher, Aleph Book Company; Gopalkrishna Gandhi, former West Bengal Governor; V. Vedachalam, ...