CHENNAI: The Centre’s new draft education policy has run into rough political weather in Tamil Nadu, underlining the need for an open-minded discussion between the Centre and the state to sort out the ...

Madurai: Centre allocates more than 2,000 crore for the promotion of Sanskrit, but not even 200 crore for the promotion of ...

Chennai: A circular of the Central Board of Secondary Education to schools under it aimed at promoting Sanskrit and the political row it sparked in Tamil Nadu is nothing new as the State had opposed ...

Language is one of the most resilient components of culture. Though many languages have disappeared over the course of ...

Tamil Nadu Public Works Minister EV Velu sparked a fresh political row on Friday after sharply criticising the Union government’s financial support for the Sanskrit language. Speaking at a public ...

CHENNAI: School Education Minister KA Sengottaiyan on Saturday announced that action will be taken against those who were responsible for stating that Tamil language is younger than Sanskrit in Class ...

About two years ago, an English academic and his student, both interested in Tamil literature, attended a talk at Kalakshetra, the art hub of Chennai, by an Israeli scholar who has written a biography ...

A controversy broke out in Tamil Nadu on Monday after a rendition of a Sanskrit invocation song was played at an event in Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, PTI reported. Union Minister of Road ...

KARUR: Remember the good old concrete structures on railway platforms — the ones bearing the names of stations? Well, they’re being replaced by iron boards across Tamil Nadu. But in Karur, much more ...

Chennai: A circular by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) directing all schools to celebrate Sanskrit week in August by organising a range of Sanskrit based-programmes for students and ...

Tolkappiyam is not dependent on Sanskrit sources and a work that demanded not only vast knowledge but also a lot of thinking from its author, according to Alexander Dubyanskiy, veteran Tamil scholar ...

Mimicking Sanskrit verses typically recited during Hindu wedding ceremonies, Tamil Nadu minister EV Velu on Friday questioned why the language receives heavy financial backing from the Centre, ...