Balaji Tharaneetharan is one of the most original and exciting filmmakers in Tamil cinema today. Even though he has had just three releases in eight years, his work has earned a decent fan following.

Social anthropologist Brenda Beck will speak here on the oral Tamil folk epic, known as the Annanmar Kathai, and also about the extraordinary contribution it made to the understanding of Tamil Nadu.

Nagercoil, the capital of Nanjil Nadu in Kanniyakumari district, was a fertile landscape beyond the imagination of the present generation. Paddy fields alternated with waterbodies, and almost all the ...