R ARELY CAN a spoonful of rice have caused such a stir. When M.K. Stalin, chief minister of Tamil Nadu, addressed the south Indian state’s legislature on September 9th, he celebrated a musty sample of ...
Archaeological investigations at Keeladi, Porunai, and other sites, together with scientific analyses of the materials unearthed, have couched Tamil Nadu’s rich and diverse heritage within a broader ...
For historians, the implications are immediate. They reveal how ancient traders from the subcontinent interacted with the ...