This was a Sunday when a bunch of history enthusiasts from all age groups got together to learn about the Arcot Nawabs. Organised by Kombai S Anwar, an academic and Tamil documentary filmmaker, this ...

In Royapettah, where a crowd jostling to enter shopping malls signals a new Chennai that didn’t exist even six years ago, lies a quiet legacy of the great empires of Hindustan. Discreet black and ...

View The Palace of the late Nabob of Arcot By Francis Swain Ward; pencil and watercolour; 44 x 56cm (17 5/16 x 22 1/16in); . Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on ...

There's always something enticing about a detour. Should you stay the course on a road trip or take the occasional unplanned turn off that highway if there's a possibility of a new discovery? I've ...

In the rabbit’s warren of streets that crowds Royapettah, the heat of Chennai’s second summer rises in waves. In this neighbourhood, peppered with small restaurants and old houses gently fraying at ...

G Babu Jayakumar spends an afternoon with the Prince of Arcot and finds a ‘political pensioner’. Amir Mahal’s façade is deceptively simple. Official residence of the Prince of Arcot, India’s only ...

44 x 56 cm. (17.3 x 22 in.) ...