The Tamil lungi, known as mundu in Kerala, is now finding its way into the world of fashion, thanks to its display by matinee idols on the silver screen. After .

The city police of the textile town have come up with a dress code for visitors to police stations, prohibiting lungi, shorts and nighty. Tirupur police commissioner Sanjay Kumar said that police ...

If Indian politics is a theatre, Tamil Nadu is a multiplex. Where cigarette flicks and dark glasses are the perennial symbols of style and substance, sycophancy does a tandava over psephology.

“Documentary evidence says that from the 16th to 18th Century, there were 280 varieties of textiles in Tamil Nadu, and most of them were exported from the ports of the Coromandel Coast,” says ...