Tag Results: Tamil Nadu
Snapshort Histories
Mahabalipuram: The Temple that Rose from the Sea
Archaeologists carried out excavations on a site unearthed after the 2004 tsunami in Tamil Nadu and they have been astounded...
Amazing India
Tamil Nadu’s Olakaneswar: A Pallava Temple or Lighthouse?
They are sentinels of a bygone past. Lighthouses have something romantic and other worldly about them and a few like Olakaneswar, a lighthouse built by Pallava kings in early 600 CE, truly stand out
Amazing India
Manapad: India’s ‘Little Jerusalem’
On the windswept coast of Tamil Nadu is a fishing village believed to hold a fragment of the cross on which Jesus was crucified. Catch the fascinating story of Manapad, a pilgrimage site that’s fast attracting pilgrims of a different kind
Living History
Puducherry’s Cafes: How Cultures Met Over Food
They may be cool and hip now but Puducherry’s cafes once facilitated a fusion of French and Indian cultures, which was crucial to the coloniser’s ambitions in India. Read all about the politics of the palate in this former French enclave on the east coast.