Hindustan Times
With Tamil Nadu possibly poised to be the decision-making state for who will rule India after the General Election, 2009, a strange case of North-South resonance comes back to haunt me from my recent trip to the Kaveri Delta… Read more
(11 votes, average: 4.45 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Renuka Narayanan on Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 8:25 pm
Filed under Religion · Tagged Gurumoorthy, Kumbakonam, Mandiram Patashala, Tamil Brahmins, Tamil Nadu
The price of being occasionally impulsive? Or just serendipity, the luck of making unexpected, delightful discoveries? I prefer to think of today’s adventure as the latter!
I’m hotfooting it this week across the historic Kaveri Delta (I refuse to spell it ‘Cauvery’ in that stupid anglicized way). I landed in Madras, jumped into the cab waiting for me at Meenambakkam airport and dashed down National Highway 45 to the ancient town of Kumbakonam. Read more
(9 votes, average: 4.22 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Renuka Narayanan on Thursday, March 12, 2009 at 9:04 pm
Filed under Religion · Tagged Kaveri, River Kaveri, Semmangudi, Tamil Nadu
“The first time I saw an aghori eating flesh at a midnight ritual on a ghatin Varanasi,” said Bala to me over the phone, “I felt disgusted. But then I got used to it.”
Bala is the rocking noir Tamil filmmaker whose much-awaited film, Naan Kadavul (I Am God) was released last Friday in Tamil Nadu. Read more
(15 votes, average: 3.53 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Renuka Narayanan on Thursday, February 12, 2009 at 10:25 am
Filed under Religion · Tagged Cannibals, Kashi, Madras, Naan Kadavul, Shaivas, Tamil Nadu, Tantrik, Varanasi
