A colourful façade with intricate statues welcomes visitors to THE Lotus Palace, a heritage hotel in Kanadukathan, a village in the Chettinad region of Tamil Nadu. In a ‘mansion’ across the street, ...

As beloved as tikka masala, samosas and naan are to me, I've visited enough Indian restaurants to know that such mainstays barely constitute a lick of the tip of the Indian food iceberg. As beloved as ...

Chennai, May 26: Chennai's most famous palace intrigue has got murkier. But trust "dead rats" to lend a flavour to the fracas. Police have been brought into the picture but not because of the departed ...

CHENNAI: Its cuisine is not the only thing that Chettinad is famous for in Tamil Nadu. Have you had a history lesson about their traditional houses? “Villages of mansions: The Chettinad House as a ...

I still remember my first visit to Chettinad, about seven hours from Chennai. This cluster of about 70-odd villages and towns spread between the Pudukottai and Ramanathapuram districts in Tamil Nadu's ...