Though printing technology came to India with the arrival of Portuguese at Goa in the middle of the 16th Century, it found ...

The march of regional and English dailies to Tier II and III towns and cities continues this year as well. The focus shifts to the South this time, Tamil Nadu to be specific. It is learnt that The ...

Did you know that Tamil was the first Indian language to go into print? Come October, the Roja Muthiah Research Library in Taramani, Chennai, is gearing up to open a Museum of Print Culture that aims ...

Oddly, the next significant period in Tamil print culture isn't until the 1920s, with the rise of the novel, especially the crime and detective novel that the Tamil public heartily (even though middle ...

Andaman beaches to get around 150 shacks to become more livelier ...

In 1577, nearly one-and-a-half centuries after the invention of the movable type printing press by Johannes Gutenberg, Tamil became the first non-Roman language to get printed. Doctrina Christam ...

CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu Textbook and Educational Services Corporation has revived a seminal work of Tamil history and literature. The Tamil Kalai Kanchiyam, an encyclopedia produced through the effort ...