Ancient Tamil instruments drew large crowds at the international conference on Tamil music being held at the World Tamil Sangam in Madurai. Madurai: Ancient Tamil instruments drew large crowds at the ...

When musician Tharun Sekar built his first yaazh, he wasn’t just recreating an ancient Tamil instrument; he was unknowingly striking the first note of a cultural revival. In less than a year that ...

A 2,000-year-old instrument, carved out of wood into the elegant curve of the mythical yaazhi’s neck, animal skin covering the resonator and thin strings connecting them both, is the stuff of myth, ...

Manikandan, popularly known as Sound Mani, can play countless traditional Tamil musical instruments. Manikandan is on a three-month trip to Australia to conduct workshops in various cities. Manikandan ...

Chennai: The booming sound, akin to an elephant trumpeting, from a kombu and the low-pitched growl of the urumi drum, once integral to rituals in temples of Tamil Nadu and old art forms, had been ...

Tamil Isai Sangam was founded in May 1943, with Raja Sir Annamalai Chettiar as the president and R.K. Shanmugam Chettiar as the vice-president. Annamalai Chettiar’s three sons — Muthiah Chettiar, ...

NEW DELHI: As the drum beats reverberated in the tranquil Banaras Hindu University (BHU) campus, electrifying the surging crowd, Lingesh, 14, thanked his stars for the first such outing of his life.