Simplicity hallmark of Travancore royal family

Uthradam Tirunal Marthanda Varma, head of the royal family of erstwhile Travancore, has said that Swathi Tirunal's reign was a period of transition.His reputation as a patron of cultural ac...

Preeti N Kumar It is the royal composer-scholar Swathi Tirunal Maharaja (1813 to 1847 A.D), who earned a great deal of popularity after the Music Trinity-divine and saint composers Thyagaraja, Muthuswamy Dikshitar and Shyama Sastry. He was well ...

Source: Leader The 2013 Baby & Toddler Show is on at the Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton from April 12-14. The Baby & Toddler Show features Australias leading parenting experts, amazing shopping and live entertainment for your little ones. Get ...

Kerala faces the imminent threat of being invaded by the coconut leaf beetle, a destructive pest that has blighted the crop in several countries bordering India. The Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR) is closely monitoring the invasive ...

"You mean Thomayaar koil? Straight ahead!" replies an auto-rickshaw driver as we stop at Thiruvithamcode in Kanyakumari district to ask for directions to the heritage church that is popularly known as Arapally. The church is believed to have been ...

Etched in stone, Yusuf Arakkal's muses stand magnificently across the globe a six-inch tall dancer from Mohenjo-daro in Delhi, The Three Graces of Rubens in Madrid and Venus de Milo in Paris. There are other muses too, in flesh and blood. Let that ...

Over a century ago, a group of siblings cast a spell on the music and dance of South India. Utpal K Banerjee recently attended the Varnam Festival at IIC, which paid tribute to the genius of the Tanjore Quartet The early 19th century was a creative ...

'When the sword of rebellion is drawn, the sheath should be thrown away' goes an old English saying. Perhaps the adage encapsulates the short but eventful life of Velu Thampi Dalawa, the 19th century prime minister of erstwhile Travancore and ...

Kerala News: The highest honour awarded by the Government of Kerala in the field of music, the prestigious Swathi Puraskaram, was on Friday presented to Carnatic music maestro V Dakshinamoorthy. Chief Minister Oommen Chandy gave away the award to ...