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Some members of a seniors’ group that congregates every evening at the GCC park on Bhagat Singh Road Park in Thiruvalluvar Nagar, Thiruvanmiyur. | Photo Credit: PRINCE FREDERICK Often, we…

Aggie Wiggs (Claire Danes), who won a Pulitzer Prize for her first novel, is struggling with a severe case of writer’s block. She lives in a large rambling house in…

Ashika Ranganath and Dushyanth in ‘Gatha Vaibhava’. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Not long ago, director Simple Suni faced the criticism of making dialogue-heavy movies. While the words had wit,…

A molecular biologist from Madurai, our quizmaster enjoys trivia and music, and is working on a rock ballad called ‘Coffee is a Drink, Kaapi is an Emotion’. @bertyashleyQuiz | Easy…

Kapila Venu lighting the lamp and breaking barriers. From Mrcchakatikam  | Photo Credit: Thulasi Kakkat As I held the burning wicks of the nilavilakku (brass stage lamp) to perform my…

In the 1970s, Ramesh Shotham made news as a drummer of the Bengaluru rock-band Human Bondage. He later learnt the Carnatic percussion instrument thavil, before moving to Cologne, Germany.The Chennai-born…