Karukurichi Arunachalam, the legendary player of the nagaswaram, a wood-wind instrument of South India, was born in 1921, in Tamil Nadu. He died at the age of 43. In the year of Arunachalam’s 100th birth anniversary, I came across a moving short story about him, Nenendu Vethugudura, based…
Meenakshi I am a green goddess.My name means Fish-eye:like a fish-mother, whose eyes never close,I'm always watching over my children. Yes, fish eat their young - I do that too.I protect the city, I destroy…
And so the talk turned to sons who don't take as good care of their ageing parents as they should. The blame shifts to the daughter-in-law. The son gets off the hook -- old story.…
T. Janakiraman was born on June 18, 1921, in Thevangudi near Thanjavur.(The T of T. Janakiraman does not stand for Thanjavur, where most of his stories are set. Nor does it stand for Thevangudi near…
At the age of 14, Dilip Kumar had become a wage earner for the family. They were members of a mercantile community from Gujarat. These immigrants to Tamil Nadu lived in Coimbatore and Chennai, the…
The very woman who’d discovered radium had seen her research grind to a halt for lack of it. After this outpouring the interview proceeded, and Meloney’s story appeared in the Delineator a few months later.…