Vijay’s films are predictable. The hero wins against all odds. The villain(s), no matter how powerful, will lose. Generously ...

The remarks that the Governor of Tamil Nadu, R.N. Ravi, made last week, on Aryan-Dravidian differences being geographical and not racial, offer remarkable insights into the contemporary political ...

South Asia, reaching from Afghanistan in the west and Bangladesh in the east, is home to at least six hundred languages belonging to six large language families, including Dravidian, Indo-European, ...

DMK's TKS Elangovan says the Dravidian movement began for Hindus sidelined as Shudras and Panchamas, opposing Manu-Dharma's ...

Tamil Nadu appears to be in the middle of a political earthquake on Monday as actor-turned-politician Vijay’s Tamilaga Vettri ...

There’s a founding paradox at the heart of the Dravidian movement, in its very name. Like the word ‘Hindi’ is Persian in ori­gin, the word ‘Dravidian’ is actually Sansk­rit. For a concept that’s taken ...

Dravidian iconography has a dissident beginning and has gradually evolved. Rajarajan’s monument, named after the king himself, stood as a symbol of both resistance. Kannaki represents a powerful ...

Vijay’s TVK has shaken Tamil Nadu’s long-standing political balance, pushing the DMK and AIADMK into an unexpected three-way contest. What was once a predictable Dravidian cycle now faces its biggest ...

In June, the Reserve Bank of India in its bulletin issued a warning over the deteriorating fiscal condition of state governments due to rising expenditure on “freebies”, or government sops. In August, ...

In other parts of India, caste and religion are primary identities. But what is unique and complex to Tamil Nadu is its linguistic identity, which is undergoing a major transformation. It is unique ...

The origin of the Dravidian language family, consisting of about 80 varieties spoken by 220 million people across South Asia, can be dated to about 4,500 years ago, based on new linguistic analyses.

The Dravidian language family, varieties of which are spoken by 220 million people across South Asia, is crucial in understanding the prehistory not only of the subcontinent but of Eurasia as a whole ...