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Filled with titbits: Tamilar Nidhi Nirvakam: Thonmaiyum Thodarchiyum is a valuable collection of articles and speeches by experts in a host of disciplines. It was released by Chief Minister M.K. Stalin in the presence of Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu, Principal Secretary (Finance) T. Udhayachandran, and Chief Secretary N. Muruganandam. One hundred years ago, petrol was sold for ₹0.25 … Read more
This year, India might receive an ‘above normal’ monsoon for the second year in a row, according to the first monsoon forecast for 2025 by the India Meteorological Department (IMD). The country is likely to receive about 105% of the long period average (LPA) rainfall this year with an error margin of ± 5%. The … Read more
Banu Mushtaq begins by reading aloud a story from her International Booker-nominated short story collection, Heart Lamp, titled “The Arabic Teacher and Gobi Manchuri.” The story is about a lawyer who hires an Arabic teacher, who is very fond of Gobi Manchuri, for her two young daughters, and a series of unexpected events that ensue … Read more
Forging a new bond in research, the University of Wolverhampton in the United Kingdom has recently opened a new centre on the campus of Bangalore City University. Born from a two-and-a-half-year vision shaped by professors of the universities, the Wolverhampton-Bengaluru Centre for Research and Innovation (WBC) is a testament to what happens when academic ambition … Read more
Opening a cafe is a dream for many, but sustaining a restaurant business in Bengaluru is not an easy task. The city leads the way in food trends and hip new restaurants. However, it is a different story if you dig deeper. It is not all smooth sailing, especially in light of the new price … Read more
About a month ago, residents of Maduvanahalli in Kollegal taluk of Chamarajanagar district witnessed the bizarre sight of a youth perched on the higher reaches of a metal structure supporting the overhead high-tension cables passing through the village. Notwithstanding the cries of his mother and pleas by other villagers, who had gathered beneath, cautioning him … Read more
Mario Vargas Llosa, who died at 89 on April 13, 2025, was once described by John King, his translator and editor, as “art critic, football commentator, film buff, polemicist, political essayist, literary critic, playwright, chronicler, short story writer…” Llosa’s Nobel Prize was a couple of decades in the future then; so too were half his … Read more
Almond-shaped eyes, aquiline features, elongated faces with defined chins and noses, earthy tones, panoramic landscapes and stylised clouds — these are some of the things that set apart Kishangarh paintings from the other miniature traditions of India. Drenched in bhakti and sringara rasas, these miniatures originated somewhere around the 17th Century in Kishangarh in Ajmer, … Read more
Vasanthan Selvam, Chief Executive Officer, Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India, at the milky mushroom cultivation and incubation centre, a startup industry, at Horticulture College and Research Institute, Periyakulam. in Theni district. | Photo Credit: G. KARTHIKEYAN A recent LinkedIn post on Theni having more than 150 startups kicked up a flurry of comments on the … Read more
A curious phenomenon has always plagued the Star Wars fandom. It’s this frustrating reverence for rebellion and the fantasy of resistance neatly repackaged for family-friendly consumption without the stomach for reality. But in the third episode of Andor’s second season, showrunner Tony Gilroy commits an act more transgressive than anything we’ve witnessed so far from … Read more