Our new website goes fully live on June 24
The redesigned website of The Hindu will move out of beta and become fully live at www.thehindu.com on June 24, 2010. Since the beta's launch on August 15, 2009, the website designed by Mario Garcia Jr., of Garcia Media, Tampa, Florida, has ...
Rise in fuel prices seems imminent
The Empowered Group of Ministers headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is scheduled to meet on June 25 to take a final decision on the issue amid reports that a consensus on fuel hike seems to have emerged among the Congress and its ...
High Court lawyers argue cases in Tamil
MADURAI/CHENNAI: An oral statement made by the First Bench of the Madras High Court on Monday that it was not opposed to advocates arguing in Tamil prompted lawyers to use Tamil in the principal seat and at the Madurai Bench. In Madurai, ...
Criteria for classical language status
Keeping in mind the universally accepted characteristics which qualify a language for the status, the criteria specified by the expert committee have to be modified
Power unto the language
Knowledge is power. Without language, knowledge cannot transform itself into power. To exercise power, freedom is required. Those in thraldom cannot exercise power. When we refer to a country's freedom, it does not merely mean freedom of a ...
Hopes, expectations, opportunities
The World Classical Tamil Conference has created a certain buzz, not only among those who will be attending it but also among those who will not. Anyone with an abiding interest in Tamil as a language — and this group comprises not only ...
A song on everyone's lips
If one song has been able to bring together some of the best playback singers, Carnatic musicians, folk artists, technicians, an Oscar-winning composer and one ace lyricist, it is the theme song of the World Classical Tamil ...
