I am looking forward to an illustrated talk in Delhi on February 6 by scholar Dr Vidya Dehejia on Chola bronzes in their social and material context. This is part of an ongoing series of talks at ...

The Chola kings, who ruled from before the Common Era until the 13th century, were long gone by the 17th century, when the Portuguese, Dutch, and the East India Company were vying for trade from ...

What you might not know, however, is that Nataraja’s popularity owes a great deal to a single Chola queen from over 1,000 years ago: Sembiyan Mahadevi. Sembiyan first emerges in historical records in ...