The march of regional and English dailies to Tier II and III towns and cities continues this year as well. The focus shifts to the South this time, Tamil Nadu to be specific. It is learnt that The ...

Though printing technology came to India with the arrival of Portuguese at Goa in the middle of the 16th Century, it found resurgence in the early 18th Century at Tharangambadi, a coastal town in the ...

Did you know that Tamil was the first Indian language to go into print? Come October, the Roja Muthiah Research Library in Taramani, Chennai, is gearing up to open a Museum of Print Culture that aims ...

Andaman beaches to get around 150 shacks to become more livelier ...

CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu Textbook and Educational Services Corporation has revived a seminal work of Tamil history and literature. The Tamil Kalai Kanchiyam, an encyclopedia produced through the effort ...

Oddly, the next significant period in Tamil print culture isn't until the 1920s, with the rise of the novel, especially the crime and detective novel that the Tamil public heartily (even though middle ...

Documented history refers to Vocabulario Tamulico com a significa am Portugueza compiled by Antão da Proença printed in Goa in 1679 as the oldest Tamizh–Portuguese dictionary. Constanzo Giuseppe ...

The print media has played a central role in the history of the major studios of Madras. Three among the five majors Modern Theatres, Gemini, and Vijaya-Vauhini had their own printing press, and ...

Print, Folklore and Nationalism in Colonial South India By Stuart Blackburn, Permanent Black, Rs 550 Better known for his works on oral folk traditions in South India, Stuart Blackburn attempts in ...