Actor-turned-politician Vijay took oath as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu on May 10 in a dramatic moment that quickly ...

Off-script oath drama: Vijay added personal pledges during his swearing-in, leading the governor to halt and direct him back to the official oath text. Historic political shift: The ceremony marked ...

Want to see how your name might look in Tamil-Brahmi or Vatteluttu? Here’s an app that can convert the present Tamil script into its ancient epigraphic counterparts of Tamil-Brahmi and Vatteluttu.

It was Iravatham Mahadevan’s ‘Early Tamil Epigraphy’ that opened doors to Tamil-Brahmi, the earliest script for old Tamil. But it was only after the development of a Unicode font that the script ...

TVK's rise is historic, but also incomplete. The party has momentum, support, and a strong leader. What it still needs is a ...

CHENNAI: Marking the birth anniversary of noted epigraphist Iravatham Mahadevan, ‘Tamizhi’, a documentary film on evolution of Tamil script was screened at Roja Muthiah research library on Wednesday.

When R. Udhayakumar a research scholar of Government Arts College, Melur got a call from Tamil teacher Balamurugan from Andipatti about an age-old stone structure that resembles a grinder, he did not ...

A centrepiece of The Hindu Lit For Life, to be held on January 17 and 18 in Chennai, will be a workshop on ‘How to read and write Tamil-Brahmi and Vattelluttu scripts’. Conducted by award-winning and ...

Apart from harboring 780 languages, India is also home to a large number of scripts which have been lost while some are on the brink of extinction. One of the many almost forgotten ones is called ...