On a fateful night 20 years ago, Sinhalese police rampaged through this town’s public library, one of the great repositories of the Tamil people’s history and culture, and committed an act of ethnic ...

Tucked away in a corner of the Directorate of Public Libraries in Chennai are stacks of books in the Tamil language neatly tied up in bundles. The collection features the ancient Tamil grammar book ...

MADURAI: Commemorating the birth centenary of former chief minister M Karunanidhi (Kalaignar), Chief Minister MK Stalin will inaugurate the Kalaignar Centenary Library at New Natham Salai in Madurai ...

Madurai: It has been nearly two years since the World Tamil Sangam Library was established, but it is yet to catch the fancy of Madurai residents. Though World Tamil Sangam was a hot spot for the past ...

THANJAVUR: Rare collections of Tamil manuscripts available in the Tamil University (TU) will now be digitized under the Endangered Archives Programme (EAP) of British Library in London. “The British ...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. K. Stalin will inaugurate the ‘Thirumathi Lakshmi Valar Tamizh’ library here on January 21 (Tuesday), said Congress leader P. Chidambaram here on Saturday. Speaking to ...

In 1933, a modest building in the city Jaffna was built to host a private collection of books. Over the years, local citizens and others contributed to the collection, and the majestic Jaffna Public ...

Despite a signboard on the ground floor with the words ‘Khutub Khanah Muthamizh’ perched above an arch leading to a narrow stairway, most passers-by walk right past this 63-year-old library in Sentul.

Ramasamy (right) opening the Tamil Library at Dewan Sree Maha Mariamman in Jalan Mengkuang, Butterworth. PENANG Hindu Endowment Board (PHEB) has opened a Tamil library at Dewan Sree Maha Mariamman in ...

Pursuing a BA in Indology and Tamil studies at Cologne University in Germany had always been Balakumaran Ilangovan’s dream. But his plans have been indefinitely postponed as the university decided to ...

Technology may have upended traditional print media forever, but more people are into reading than ever before. Digital archiving and databases have made it possible for niche sections of the reading ...