Tamil Nadu

temple · festival

Koothandavar Temple is located in Koovagam which is a village in the Ullundurpettai talak in Villupuram DIstrict, Tamil Nadu.

temple

Sunny special effect at Ekambaranathar or Ekambareswarar Temple, Kanchipuram Kanchipuram in Tamil Nadu has some of the finest temples in South India. See these temples in time lapse with monsoon clouds billowing.

farmland · festival

Pongal celebrations 2014 at Tamil Nadu House, New Delhi. Tamil Nadu Principal Resident Commissioner Jasbir Singh Bajaj, Special Representative to Government of Tamil Nadu SKT Jakkaiyyan and Deputy Resident commissioner Chinnadurai and other…

wildlife · forest

Locals in Tamil Nadu form into a huge circle especially the people who had climbed on to the transformer surrounding the pit in which a baby elephant fell on 16th January 2018 just to get a view of the elephant just like visiting a circus.

village · wildlife

A three-day-old female elephant calf, which got separated from its mother, was rescued by villagers near Rayakottai in Krishnagiri district of Tamil Nadu. The calf was spotted in a village outside Odedurgam forest.

Tamil Nadu·festival · temple

A journey to Tamil by a travel show in Tamil Nadu. One can see the beautiful view of the ocean and fisherman as the sun is setting in. The local boats for these fisherman is still their main source of income though it is vintage.

festival

Pongal is one of the most popular harvest festivals of South India, mainly of Tamil Nadu. Pongal falls in the mid-January every year and marks the auspicious beginning of Uttarayan - sun's journey northwards.

architecture

Pancha Rathas (also known as Pandava Rathas) is a monument complex at Mahabalipuram, on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal, in the Kancheepuram district of the state of Tamil Nadu, India.

festival · politics

At least 100 people have been knocked down 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.

dance · temple

‘Karakattam’, a popular folk dance of Tamil Nadu forms an important event in temple festival celebrations especially in Amman Temple festivals in the rural areas of 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.

dance · temple

Bharatanatyam is a classical Indian dance form originating in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu.This dance form denotes various 19th and 20th century reconstructions of Sadir, the art of temple dancers.

temple · architecture

Old footage of San Thome Church, officially the National Shrine of St. Thomas Cathedral Basilica, located in the Santhome area of Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Inside the church, the statues of St.

politics

Palaniswami took oath first, followed by 30 ministers in four batches. The swearing in ceremony was held at Raj Bhavan around 4.30pm. This is the third ministry in the last 10 months since AIADMK won the assembly election.

The Croc Bank of Chennai has successfully bred thousands of crocodilians for captive purposes and wild release, in a unique private-public partnership that has trained local Irula tribals and others from across Tamil Nadu to get involved in…

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.

Green bananas or unripe ones for cooking, red bananas and good old yellow regular varieties - yo can find them all in the wholesale banana market of Chennai or Madras in Tamil Nadu.

A person dances in a lion's outfit at Pancha Rathas complex at Mahabalipuram in Tamil Nadu. See the Five Rathas date back to the 7th Century.

highway · hills

How different in temperament the Himalayan and Nilgiri Tahrs are! The Himalayan Thar is a wild and shy creature, living on imposing cliff-faces and terribly difficult to approach.

village

Young boys jump into the water to beat extreme summer heat in Tamil Nadu. They take a dip in the water in Koovagam village.

Chennai’s Marina beach became the epicentre of protests against the ban on Jallikattu statewide in Tamil Nadu with thousands of youngsters stomping about in the sands overnight to register their support to the traditional bull-taming sport.…

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…