The Indian Railways are often romanticised as a colonial gift, an infrastructure legacy that unified a fragmented land and modernised the subcontinent. However, this narrative masks the deeper ...

Sridhara Venkatesa ‘Ayyaval’, a highly revered poet-saint active in the village of Tiruvisainallur in the late 17th century. He was a crucial early figure in the development of nāmasiddhānta, an ...