How Sangam Literature Imagined a Coastal World of Balance The Sangam poets remind us that the coast is not a fringe but a frontier of imagination — where earth and water, human and non-human, constantly negotiate. Sindu Deivanayagam✍️ thewire.in/culture/how-sa…

For 50 years, the villages Kollukudipatti and Vettangudipatti have celebrated cracker-free Diwali once they noticed firecrackers noise cracking birds' eggs. This has now slowly spread to neighbouring ten more villages.

Please suggest some excellent Bengali grammars written in Bengali. Thank you!

I was molested in a crowded bus by a 50+ year old man when I was 8 years old . I was seated on his lap since there was no place . My relatives just wanted me to have a seat . Nothing else . But that horror happened. That was the most horrible part of my life and as a girl child

A big corruption exposé: Tamil Nadu govt departments accused of giving environmental clearance and building permission for Brigade Morgan Enterprises project worth Rs 2,000 crore inside the ecologically-sensitive Pallikaranai Ramsar Site. Anti-corruption NGO Arappor Iyakkam has

I just want to let you comrades know that Cornell's entire library is open access (no permissions required), and there are many thousands of books 📚 archive.org/details/cornell

Ethanol will be doing to us what it's doing to our cars.

Why isnt a child molester Shashi Bhushan Upadhyay who was caught with video evidence arrested yet by the police?

Excellent thread on Orsini’s scholarship! “How to Do Multilingual Literary History?” is my favourite and a must read for anyone interested in literary cultures of north India in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Requiem for the Christmas Island Shrew It never weighed more than a spoonful of sugar. Five or six grams of life, soft-furred and sharp-nosed, darting among the roots and leaf litter of a tiny island in the Indian Ocean. At night, its voice—a thin, high cry, part bat and part

De mortuis nil nisi, etc., but a couple of bigots less the better

In India, a billionaire brahmin lady will gloat about how she still haggles over the price of vegetables with street vendors and people will actually applaud her for being "simple". Squeezing extra cash from those poorer than us is so hard wired in our culture.

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Lost and crying for his mother… a 5-month-old baby elephant in Tamil Nadu wandered alone, frightened and desperate after being separated from his herd. Forest officials refused to give up. Using drones, they tracked the herd 2.5 miles away. They bathed the baby, covered him in

BANGALORE ADOPTION APPEAL Bella is a 3-year-old Labrador, who was found abandoned a few months ago. But that's in the past and she is a healed sweet girl waiting for her new family. She is spayed, healthy and happy! Please share! ♥️🙏 CONTACT: 9686931568

The Severe Cyclonic Storm Montha will make a landfall at the Coringa mangrove forest at the Godavari mouth. This is the largest Mangrove forest in South India. Some extent both Kakinada & Yanam are protected by this mangrove ecosystem. Let us protect these God send ecosystem

for the rain it raineth every day

Oh, yes

Bangalore, if you see this man anywhere pls be aware he likes the idea of assaulting women. If you see him at work or in public transport or on a dating app, please be aware and careful.

In this hypothetical scenario of 2026, a working-class Anna Nagar family in Chennai skips the UIP schedule. No BCG for TB, no polio drops, no DPT, no measles shots—swayed by a Twitter post about autism risk. They rely on ayurvedic tonics for their 6-month-old son and