Tamil Nadu

dance · temple

Bharatanatyam, a pre-eminent Indian classical dance form presumably the oldest classical dance heritage of India is regarded as the mother of many other Indian classical dance forms.

The scientist from a small hamlet in Tamil Nadu who has dreamt of India as a nuclear power many years ago finally achieved it. Totally dedicated to the development of the nation is being felicitated with many national awards.

temple · river

Ekambaranathar Temple or Ekambareswarar Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to Shiva, located in Kanchipuram in the state of Tamil Nadu, India.

1998 saw an incident in Tamil Nadu concerning a man accused of injecting people with AIDS infected blood. NACO and other NGOs took the initiative to break social awareness on AIDS through different forms of media.

festival

Sadhguru, the founder of Isha Yoga Center lights Mahayoga Yagya at the Yogeshwara Linga during the Mahashivratri celebration by Isha Yoga Center in Tamil Nadu. People chant Nirvana Shatakam as Sadhguru lights the yagya.

sport

Employees of Neyveli Lignite Corporation do warm up at Bharati Stadium in Neyveli in Tamil Nadu. They make a circle by joining their hands and bend forward and backward. The coach stands in the center and instructs them.

Rows of wind turbines turn and generate power, thanks to the coastal winds in Tamil Nadu, as installed by NPEC Micon for TNPL. A crane hoists the turbine head to the top of the tower.

flowers

Tourists visit to experience more than a thousand species of trees, plants and flowers found at this well maintained botanical gardens.

On May 22, 2018, the 100th day of protest against Sterlite Copper, a Vedanta group copper smelter unit, Thoothukudi witnessed mayhem. The coastal town saw another police firing the next day on a mob pelting stones at police.

farmland

A Rotavater in use in a Tamil Nadu field. Attached to the back of a tractor, it gets pulled through the fields. Crows follow opportunistically, to list up any hapless insects that get disturbed from the fields.

forest · politics

Viewer discretion advised. After a major forest fire outbreak in the Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu, the state government's rescue operation starts.

temple · aerial

Aerial view of old lighthouse and Mahishasuramardini cave temple in Mahabalipuram in Tamil Nadu. The old lighthouse is named as Olakaneswara, which means the flame eyed Shiva was built around 640 AD by Pallava king Mahendra.

aerial · temple

An aerial of Mahabalipuram or Mamallapuram in Tamil Nadu, along Bay of Bengal. The temple city of Mahabalipuram (also Mamallapuram) is situated just 60 km off Chennai on the Bay of Bengal coast in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

ceremony · festival

Trangenders or Hijras mourn the death of Aravan near Koothandavar Temple in Koovagam village. Priest cuts their mangalsutra abd breaks their bangles. Koothandavar festival of Koovagam, is one of the most bizarre rituals observed in India.

village

A two-headed calf has stunned locals in an Indian village after it defied the odds to survive for over a month. The calf, yet to be named, was born on August 10 in Navalur village in Thanjavur in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

farmland · festival

Pongal is a four-days-long harvest festival celebrated in Tamil Nadu, a southern state of India. For as long as people have been planting and gathering food, there has been some form of harvest festival.

boats · river

Tourists set their way to the boats at the Boat House, Kolavai Tank. From there they set sail to enjoy the water and the thrill of passing under a bridge with just meters from the bridge.

festival · wildlife

Ganesh Chaturthi, also known as Vinayaka Chaturthi, also called Vinayagar in Tamil Nadu, is the Hindu festival celebrated on the occasion of birthday of Lord Ganesha, the son of Shiva and Parvati, who is believed to bestow his presence on e…

ceremony · festival

Every spring, thousands of transgenders, eunuchs and cross-dressers from all over India and neighbouring countries flock to the southern Indian village of Koovagam, for Hindu celebration of transgender people.

architecture · temple

The Kanchipuram District is situated on the north-eastern coast of Tamil Nadu, adjacent to the Bay of Bengal.

Kids perform a skit on the occasion of Pongal at Tamil Nadu House, New Delhi.

highway

An orangish mud path leads to the Auroville Camp in Tamil Nadu. The road runs through a foresed areat. A car stands headlong along the road and is decorated with graffiti including Peace and other typical Woodstock-esque signs.

wildlife · river

This cute baby elephant was struggling to climb out of a ditch only moments after being born.