A Tamil-Brahmi script on a pot rim, reading “a ma na”, meaning a Jaina, has been found at Pattanam in Ernakulam district, Kerala, establishing that Jainism was prevalent on the west coast at least ...

Want to see how your name might look in Tamil-Brahmi or Vatteluttu? Here’s an app that can convert the present Tamil script into its ancient epigraphic counterparts of Tamil-Brahmi and Vatteluttu.

Fashion has always been more than fabric — it’s an identity, a statement, and sometimes even a rebellion. In 2025, one of the most exciting movements emerging from South India is Tamil script fashion.

Case in point: Chennai-based designer Vivek Karunakaran’s latest collection Idam (Tamil for ‘place’), which debuted in Feb at the FDCI India Men's Week in Jaipur, featuring the Tamil script as ...

It was Iravatham Mahadevan’s ‘Early Tamil Epigraphy’ that opened doors to Tamil-Brahmi, the earliest script for old Tamil. But it was only after the development of a Unicode font that the script ...

A team of engineers is attempting to re-imagine the script of one of the oldest-surviving classical languages. iTamil, a project of city-based Karky Research Foundation, is an attempt to reform Tamil ...

President Pratibha Patil presented the 'Kalaignar M Karunanidhi Classical Tamil Award' to Professor Arko Parpola, Professor-Emeritus of Indology, Institute of World Cultures, University of Helsinki, ...

CHENNAI: Marking the birth anniversary of noted epigraphist Iravatham Mahadevan, ‘Tamizhi’, a documentary film on evolution of Tamil script was screened at Roja Muthiah research library on Wednesday.

Artefacts found at the archaeological site in Keezhadi, about 12 km from Madurai in Tamil Nadu, have been dated to 580 BCE, with “graffiti marks” on them pointing to a possible continuity in script ...