Penn veeram (women’s strength) is a trope that poet Subramania Bharathiyar often wove his beautiful prose around. The complex psyche of women has always been a point of interest to the legendary poet.

The Indian War of Independence — 1857: The seminal work by V D Savarkar is described as “a step-by-step account of the uprising of Indian Hindus and Muslims against the ruthless British rulers”. It ...

He walked in the street with his arm around his wife, Chellamma. In the conservative early 20 th century, this was seen as public, explicit display of a man’s affection for his woman—a cardinal sin.

THOOTHUKUDI: In a precautionary measure, the Bharathiyar Archives functioning on the Ettayapuram Mahakavi Manimandapam campus has been closed temporarily, after the poor condition of the building ...

A deep sense of nostalgia and pride pervades the century-old building on Thulasinga Perumal Koil Street, close to the Parthasarathy Swamy Temple at Triplicane. Subramania Bharathiyar, one of the ...

PUDUCHERRY: In an event at the Botanical Garden in Puducherry, Lieutenant Governor Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan unveiled a Bharat Mata statue, a design originally conceived by Subramaniya Bharathi, ...

Madurai: A statue of renowned Tamil poet and freedom fighter, C Subramania Bharathi, was inaugurated at the Madurai Kamaraj University (MKU), on Monday to observe his 141st birth anniversary. Tributes ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is ...