A. R. Venkatachalapathy

The writer is a Professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, and a member of the Board of Advisers of The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy. He is a historian and Tamil writer and has published widely on the social, cultural and intellectual history of colonial and postcolonial Tamil Nadu.

Chennai, 09/12/2014: For Bureau / City: David Washbrook, Trinity College, University of Cambridge at the Seminar on Modernity in India and the Peculiarities of the South in Chennai. Photo:M. Moorthy

A Modern Secularism Crucial for India's Progress: David Washbrook

A leading British historian of colonial south India, David Washbrook, Research Professor in South Asian History, Trinity College, Cambridge, U.K., ...

The "Virtual Community" of Tamils

"The steady exchange of people, ideas and culture between the people of Tamil Nadu and Tamils around the world has built a virtual community, an ...