The role of the bamboo staff as the first weapon of human beings dates to prehistoric times. Today, the humble staff may seem to be of no match against the deadly virus that has gripped the world, but ...

Atop the single-storey terrace in the middle of Goripalayam, 25-year-old Kalaiselvi and 18-year-old Sangeetha strike their swords with seething rage. At lightning speed, they both swirl and strike ...

Under Kashi Tamil Sangamam 4.0, a group of students from Varanasi gained a unique, close-up experience of Tamil Nadu’s academic and cultural heritage,<br />including learning the traditional martial ...

Samantha Ruth Prabhu has posted a video of her learning Silambam and people have already begun talking that she is doing so for her new film with director Atlee, tentatively titled Vijay 61. Samantha ...

Swishing air and the occasional sound of clashing bamboo sticks reverberates in the air at a dimly lit alley near the Tondiarpet Police Station off T.H. Road. Passers-by peep suspiciously to check if ...

The big black dog raises his head and looks suspiciously at me as I walk into an early morning silambam class being conducted at the YMCA grounds in Nandanam, Chennai. I hold out a hand. He sniffs it, ...

Rajeshkumar @ Ellaalan had been learning the traditional Tamil martial art, Silambam since childhood. Rajeshkumar is visiting Australia now and will be conducting martial arts lessons for the next ...

Actor-composer Vijay Antony will play a cop for the first time in his career in his upcoming release Thimiru Pudichavan. He will be seen performing action sequences for which he is learning ...

On Monday morning, minutes after her wedding ceremony concluded, a bride in Tamil Nadu carefully tucked her saree in and gathered her guests around to deliver a spellbinding performance of a ...

KADAPA: Konduru Venkata Ramaraju and Sunanda wanted their girls to stand on their own and face the world with confidence. They spared their daughters the additional burden of restrictions an average ...