Most south Indian cities have a temple at their heart. The one in Tamil Nadu’s Thanjavur, or Tanjore, is a thousand years old. Locals call this stone building Periya Koyil, ‘the big temple’; the ...
The Great Living Chola Temples were built by kings of the Chola Empire, which stretched over all of south India and the neighbouring islands. The site includes three great 11th- and 12th-century ...
CHENNAI: Arpakkam, an ancient village, is home to the Valishwara (Siva) temple and the Adikesava Perumal (Vishnu) temple, situated close to each other. According to scholars, the Perumal temple would ...
On Tuesday, 1,038 dancers from the South Zone Cultural Centre in Thanjavur took to the stage created at the Big Temple for a spectacular bharatanatyam performance to mark the beginning of the 1,038th ...
CHENNAI: The famous Siva temple, now known as Brihadeeshwara, and formerly as Gangaikondacholeeshwaram, in the village of Gangaikondacholapuram in Ariyalur district is world famous. Built in the reign ...
The controversy over Mani Ratnam’s epic period drama Ponniyin Selvan-1 has hit a crescendo with film celebrities and politicians joining the debate over the Hindu identity of King Rajaraja Chola. We ...
Site inscribed in 1987 The great Temple of Tanjore (Thanjavur) was built between 1003 and 1010 in the reign of the great King Rajaraja, founder of the Chola Empire which stretched over all of South ...
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