Tamil Nadu

festival · politics

At least 100 people have been injured so far in this year’s first Jallikattu, which is the traditional bull taming spectacle held in Tamil Nadu during the four-day Pongal festival.

festival

Participants and audiences for the festival of taming bulls in Tamil Nadu gather at the venue. The confined bulls are let loose and the participants are seen running after the bulls and catching hold of their horns.

farmland

Farmers walk through their paddy fields after a day of work in Tamil Nadu, India. Paddy productivity in Tamil Nadu has always been the second highest in the country, next only to Punjab.

temple · river

Shops selling religious articles near Sri Ekambaranathar Temple in Tamil Nadu. A man herding a flock of ducks.

dance · ceremony

A beautiful invocatory dance performance choreographed by Srimati Nivedita Partha Sarathi during the Pongal Harvest festival at Tamil House in New Delhi.

Tamil Nadu·farmland · festival

Pongal celebrations 2014 at Tamil Nadu House, New Delhi. Pongal is a harvest festival celebrated by Tamil people at the end of the harvest season.

Gowri - Shankaram is a necklace made up of gold, Rudraksha beads, rubies, and diamonds. It is from Chettinad, Tamil Nadu from 19th century. Vanki is a Armband from 19th century from Tamil Nadu. It is made up of gold and ruby.

Tamil Nadu·farmland · festival

Pongal celebrations 2014 at Tamil Nadu House, New Delhi. The thappu, thapu, dappu or parai drum is a frame drum of India. Viewer Sowmya corrects us that this instrument should only be called a Parai.

forest

A 15-feet-long python was rescued by forest officials in Tamil Nadu's Krishnagiri district on Wednesday. The python was spotted by people when it tried to cross the road.

crafts · bazaar

Women buying Kanjeevaram sarees at a shop in Gandhi road market in kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu. The major occupations of Kanchipuram are silk sari weaving and agriculture.

Local woman selling pineapples in the streets of Kerala. Pineapple fruits are often offered with slices and eaten with chilli powder, salt or black salt. Street food is something that you can find all over the places and are inexpensive.

dance · music

Poikkal Kuthirai Aattam or False Horse Dance by R. Muthalip Karagam Dance Troupe during Pongal celebrations 2014 at Tamil Nadu House, New Delhi.

ceremony · village

Women being whipped to rid them of evil spirits during a religious ceremony in a remote Indian village.

temple · architecture

Vishnu in a reclining pose lying on a serpent in Mahishasura mardini cave temple. Mahishasuramardhini mandapa is an example of Indian rock-cut architecture dating from the late 7th century, of the Pallava dynasty.

sport

Employees of Neyveli Lignite Corporation practice Hockey at Bharati stadium in Neyveli in Tamil Nadu. Women at Bharati Stadium warm up by climbing up and down the staircase.

festival

Participants paint their faces as they take part in the procession of Angalamman festival in a small town called Kaveripattinam in Tamil Nadu. Angalamman is celebrated every year in Tamil Nadu.

Dharmaraja Ratha is a monument in the Pancha Rathas complex at Mahabalipuram, on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal, in the Kancheepuram district of the state of Tamil Nadu, India.

In a bizarre incident in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, a man thought to have breathed his last wakes up from his 20 hours sleep inside a freezer. He has been repotedly kept inside the freezer as the family awaits his cremation.

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.

politics

At least 100 people have been injured so far in this year’s first Jallikattu, which is the traditional bull taming spectacle held in Tamil Nadu during the four-day Pongal festival.

livestock · village

The tableau depicts Toda tribe of Nilgiri district of Tamil Nadu identified as one of the six primitive tribal groups of the state. They speak a non-linguistic language and have unique appearance, manners and customs.

farmland · festival

Pongal celebrations 2014 at Tamil Nadu House, New Delhi. Pongal is a harvest festival celebrated by Tamil people at the end of the harvest season.