*As dusk descends on Pulicat Lake—a large saltwater lagoon on the border of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh in South India—Isaivani starts singing a rousing “gaana” song. She is the only female singer ...

Chennai’s late night scene is no longer relegated to the food streets of Anna Nagar alone. On October 11, the Alliance Française of Madras brings back the third edition of La Nuit Blanche (The White ...

A few years ago, 36-year-old Sakthi Venkatesan, who grew up in an Egmore Housing Board tenement, decided to become a hip-hop artiste. He travelled to the United States, met some of the OGs of locking ...