Maha Shivaratri is a day that all the devotees wait for. It was on this auspicious day that Lord Shiva promised to be the protector of the universe. As per the legends it was on this day that the ...

CHENNAI: One of the most distinguishing features of the Chola Empire was their comfort with diversity. Instead of replacing existing cultures after conquest, the Cholas added a new layer to them ...

However, temple status wasn’t open to all women in the thirteenth century. Over the previous century, paralleling the Chola court’s sidelining of its women, many medieval Tamil ladies lost their ...

In 1024, Rajendra Chola dreamt up the grandest, riskiest, campaign ever planned by a medieval Indian ruler: an attack across the seas on Kedah (in today’s Malaysia). Both Rajendra Chola and the ...

On the northern frontier of the Chola empire, we know of a case in the 11th century when the Five Hundred sent a mercenary after a group that had murdered one of their members. He killed seven men, ...

The Coldplay frontman and his longtime love visited Mumbai's Babulnath Temple before the band played its first-ever stadium show in India Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE.

The Brihadishvara temple, built in the 11th Century by King Rajaraja Chola, is a Unesco World Heritage site It's 1000 CE - the heart of the Middle Ages. Europe is in flux. The powerful nations we ...

In the Chola capital region on the Kaveri, corresponding to the present-day city of Kumbakonam, a constellation of a dozen temple-towns supported populations of tens of thousands, possibly ...

New Delhi: The Cholas were pioneers of temple politics, dominated the Indian Ocean, made Tamil a global language of power and diplomacy, and shaped some of the most important developments in Hinduism.

The Brihadishvara Temple at Thanjavur is still one of the most stupendous monuments ever built in India. While often seen primarily as a religious monument, its inscriptions also reveal a Chola court ...

Nellore: Once a sacred haven for the Chola dynasty, Prabhagiripatnam is now a forgotten village on the brink of extinction. Located about 37 kilometres from Nellore, in Podalakuru Mandal ...