After the roaring success of Palme d’Or-winning Dheepan, there appears to be an increasing interest in the cinematic telling of Tamil stories. Stories, however, that are not told by the mainstream South Indian film industry, but stories that are real and gripping. Stories told by the real, everyday Tamilians. Stories that are a true representation […]
READ MOREHamburg based composer and musician Charles Princeten is one of the most sort names in the independent Tamil music scene. His production can be heard in one of our favourites Drop by Mc Sai, right through to tracks by Vinno Russo, an artist on his own label, ForceOneMusic. His talent has not gone unnoticed in […]
READ MOREA while back I was shown an exclusive trailer about an up-and-coming young magician called Niresh Satkunarajah, best known perhaps under his nom de guerre “NIO BELIEVE”. First reaction: a Tamil magician? His parents must be really cool and chilled out people, because I know for a fact that if I or any of my […]
READ MOREPhotos by Helen Fickling & Charles Hopkinson For five days each year, London houses its own little Garden of Eden in the heart of the city. Every May, since 1912, gardeners from all across the world make their way to the Chelsea Flower Show, turning the capital in to a heavenly paradise with their beautiful, […]
READ MOREThe color you see below is no ordinary hue. It’s one of the world’s newest — and perhaps most vivid — shades of blue. It also happens to be the result of a brilliant mistake. A team of chemists discovered YInMn blue during a chemistry experiment at Oregon State University in 2009. “It was serendipity, […]
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