When jingoism reigns supreme, science takes a backseat. The recent announcement by Chief Minister M. K. Stalin that Iron Age began in Tamil Nadu is a case in point.

Regarding the question of the Iron Age in India, recent evidence from Tamil Nadu marks a significant shift. The majority of sites now date to the mid-third millennium BCE, which has opened new ...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. K. Stalin announced on Thursday that the Iron Age in Tamil Nadu began over 5,300 years ago. In a statement, the Chief Minister, who ...

Recent Radiometric Dates from Tamil Nadu’ in Chennai, Stalin said he was making the remarkable anthropological announcement, not only to India but to the whole world, that the “Iron Age began ...

Recent radiometric dates from Tamil Nadu’, authored by K. Rajan and R. Sivanantham, Mr. Stalin said: “The Iron Age began on Tamil soil!”. He went on to cite carbon dating results from ...

Iron Age in Tamil Nadu may have begun around 3,345 BCE, a thousand years earlier than previously believed, new carbon dating from burial urns in Sivagalai reveals. This challenges the notion that ...

With recent findings on the Iron Age creating excitement among archaeologists and scholars worldwide, Tamil Nadu has charted ...

Debates over the antiquity of Tamil language, civilisation and culture have been raging for many decades in the academic and political worlds. While archaeologists from Tamil Nadu and ...

The podcast that delves into the stories shaping southern India. In this episode, hosts Dhanya Rajendran and Leena Reghunath ...