ReMindful

     

        For a week, Mylapore fills with thousands of devotees celebrating Panguni Utsavam, a South Indian festival said to be a day for d...

    Some of my students took me to Superstar Pizza, a shrine to actor Rajinikanth, who, like several other previous and current cinematic...

                        Dancing to Tamil filmie hits. Cruising the countryside, as Illyaraja and S. Janaki croon vintage love duets fille...

   

       Spent a weekend in Coonoor, a hill town in Tamil Nadu enveloped by terraced tea plantations tucked into the Nilgiri mou...

  Collecting garbage for the kolam (Courtesy of the Hindu)     In the works for two years, “DAMned Art” would bring thousands o...

       Should have bet on Powder Puff. Ridden by C. Umesh—resplendent in pink and blue silks—Powder Puff caught my fancy. At least, her n...