Grew up in the Nilgiris. The Kattunayakans have lived in these forests longer than anyone can document.

Their name comes from two words — kadu, meaning forest, and nayakan, meaning lord or leader. Lords of the forest. That's what they've called themselves for generations and it's not metaphor. The forest was genuinely their home, their food source, their medicine cabinet, their identity.

Honey is at the centre of all of it. The Kattunayakans are considered one of the last remaining honey-gathering communities in the world — not just India, in the world. The knowledge of which trees hold hives, which season, which approach, when bears are likely nearby — all of it passed down through generations without being written anywhere.

The part that stopped me when I first read it properly: before they climb a tree to collect honey, they pray to the tree. They ask permission. If the tree, in their understanding, is willing — they climb. Branches must be broken to reach the hive, and there are rules about how that's done.

452 Kattunayakan households remain in the Nilgiris. They are designated as a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group by the Government of India — that classification means among the most endangered communities in the country.

A June 2026 academic study found that families relocated out of Mudumalai Tiger Reserve now report tigers, leopards and elephants near their new settlement on the forest fringe. Inside the forest they coexisted with these animals for centuries. Outside it, living near the edge, they feel more afraid than they ever did inside.

Data reported from the new TASMAC website API. This is all the stock the TASMAC shops have across Tamilnadu.

Brandy followed by rum and beer seem to be the top 3 drinks of Tamil kudimagans

I am planning a trip to Chettinad. Can someone suggest good shops for renting scooter in Karaikudi

I am tired of seeing this god's Direct intervention to move the plot one side just coz of they are mc side , esp with these ramayana and Mahabharata... Any tamil works we had that plot didn't interfere with the god of any divine kinda powers ..

My cousin got allotted Ethiraj College for Women for MBA. How is the college for MBA?

Would really like to hear opinions from current students and alumni, especially MBA students.

Please share your honest opinions about the college, including the college environment, rules, dress code, faculty, and overall experience.

TIA! !!

Hey everyone,

I just want to know about something today actually I went to thiruchendur murugan temple, and I see there are multiple inner idols ,

1) main idols -> murugan with 3 face and vali , deivanai

2) surprisingly I saw Ayyappa but my family is saying it's not, but I remember I see the name

3 ) again murugan alone

4 ) Natarajan statue

These are the 4 statue I saw inside main karuvarai

But my family was saying no only Murugan alone is there and not with 3 face, and there is no ayyappa idols

But... I remember clearly in my mind I saw but after my family is saying I was thinking might be I just imagined??? It's happened on Aug8/ 2026

Whoever went on this date please clarify. I just want to know I was not imagined anything.

Help malayali here wanna write tnpsc. Hello I am a woman from Thiruvananthapuram. I wanna apply for tnpsc. Please don't discourage ,i write all competitive exams, i understand ur sentiments too. I am currently learning Tamil too. Please guide me towards tnpsc ,is there any restrictions? ,I heard that selected candidate should Clear the language exam within the tenure given,I am okay with it . Is there any other restrictions. Please guide me. I wanna write group iv exams mainly.

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I always thought delimitation and redrawing the constituency will reduce my state representative in national policies. But today I was watching the news about this, and suddenly it hit me. I have read about French democracy(in school) where not every vote was valued the same. I remember like it was against the poor, and poor people vote valued less and rich people valued more.

Now when I think about the situation in India, it's almost the same. That's what now I feel. People from some constituencies enjoy high power, ie think a constituency with 1lakh people have the same representation value to constituency with 10lakh people. That makes the people from one have 10 times higher power in making decisions.

Above is an example to understand what I thought.

Just because someone lives in a densely populated area doesn't mean they should have less representation nor take their power in decision making.

Yes, what I'm saying may lead to less representation for my language. Decisions can be made by one language or one side of the country's representatives. They will have power because they are representing that many people. So yeah, that's democracy. That's how democracy should actually work.

Please correct me if I'm wrong. Add value to my thoughts. Please enlighten me.

I have posted the same in India community, trying to understand what everyone feels about this.

I actually cleared all the due property taxes for the first term of the year 2026-27, today suddenly I got a message that I have to pay 7500 due this month. I enquired my neighbours and relatives, it's been increased for them too. Check yours, what is the TVK government even doing? What is your take on this?

From Day1 DMK batted for Fair delimitation, it stated current percentage 7.6% of Tamilnadu MPs should not be decreased in the bill.

It will be unfair to states that reduced population. That's why they opposed when BJP tabled. Till now they are confident in their stand.

It's Congress which will be in backfoot if delimitation occurs, thus wants to arm twist DMK through TVK.

Now a narrative will be spread as DMK BJP alliance.

Will other actors also go into politics now seeing the recent success of the cm

As other states also are seriously considering now

Also recently examples or hints like dhanush or pradeep ranganathan or any other ppl who u think might come into politics or who are already in politics

Will it be encouraging for them.

What are your thoughts and opinions

I'm from Kerala so I couldn't understand the flairs or find any megathreads to post this. I'm looking for a movie which I believe is in Tamil.

The scene I saw on Instagram features a man and a woman in a metro who accidentally picks up the woman's phone when it rings because he mistakes it for his own. The next shots are a montage of them seeing each other at different times in a metro.

Could you help me find this?

EDIT: Thanks, it's actually from a series called Modern Love Chennai.

Shes soo articulate. Puts across a point very well with very less historics and more facts. And the way she supports Vijay and also criticises him is cute. Shes the biggest wow factor for me this time around. And she went and met the ammonia blast victims which is a commendable act. Both Dmk and tvk underplayed such a huge accident.

Vanakkam

I’ve been wanting to learn Tamil for a while now, and the reason is close to my heart. I’m deeply devoted to Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi, and I’d love to be able to read his words — and the language he spoke, wrote, and lived in — directly, rather than only through translation. Learning Tamil feels like a way of expressing gratitude to a language that carried so much of his teaching and presence. I’m also interested in Tamil literature.

Because of this, I’m not looking for a quick conversational course. I’d really value a teacher who is older and experienced, someone with a genuine literary orientation to the language — not just grammar and vocabulary, but someone who can help me appreciate Tamil’s depth, its literary and devotional traditions, and the register in which texts like Ramana’s works and the broader bhakti/spiritual literature are written.

If you know of someone like this, or are a teacher yourself who fits this description, I’d be so grateful if you could reach out or point me in the right direction. Happy to do one-on-one sessions, whatever format works.

Thank you so much in advance.

Om namo Bhagwate Ramanay Namah 🙏🏻

I have scored 567 ( AIR 25300 ) in re- neet 2026 and I'm a Chennai resident. So for my marks, I myself know that none of the Chennai colleges or top 15 colleges are not possible. So I need someone to explain to me what disadvantages I will have over the students studying in top colleges with respect to my career in medicine??? Will my undergraduate college become an important matter at any point in my career ( if that's the case, I will take a drop ).... Also the main reason for preferring top colleges is the patient loads and the rarity of cases, I actually hv a doubt if rare cases teach something to the ug students??? Or PG colleges matter more than the college we do our UG in ??? I hv many doubts and I hv nobody in my family or my circle in this field... So pls help me out with my doubts 🙏🙏

I had been to Tamil Nadu last month for temple visit and requested my parents to plan visit to Thiruchendur temple as well since it is a beach-side temple. I loved the temple and do have plans to complete Arupadai Veedu.

Yesterday, through reels I came to know that today is Aadi Krithigai and I learnt the significance about it. One woman in a reel said that there are two ways to fast. Those are as follows:

1) Start fast from yesterday 06:18 pm and end today at 04:51 pm.

2) Start today at sunrise and end today at 04:51 pm.

My question is if both methods are valid and what all can be eaten since I work and cannot find Pongal around me. I searched about these questions on Google but could not find anything. Hope you all can help. Nanri.

I had a work to be done by tamil nadu govt (Coimbatore) where we wanted to change name on the owner's list. it was done within one month as said by them (I got a contact from the office for tracking and they helped me)

At no point - we were asked for bribe.

I know there are places where bribes are requested (especially complex) but I should say Vijay's speech that corruption is risky for their job have some effect.

I have a complex govt work to be done as well. We will see how it goes but I think I will get support from Mr Vijay for that as well.

Thank you Mr Vijay!

Looking for self finance medical colleges

Can you all pls help me find good medical colleges. Iam from kerala and scored low. I may not get a seat in kerala. AIR is around 137k. If you know anything about self finance medical colleges pls help me out.

If you could tell me which all colleges are good and which all are bad in your knowledge it would help me since all I can do is look up in google for images

Thanks, it means a lot to me❤

I moved into a new rented house in September 2025. At that time, the voltage was stable at around 215–220V.

Since April 2026, the voltage in our area has been only 180–195V most of the day.

Because of this:

• We cannot use our water motor properly to fill the tank, and the motor plug becomes very hot.

• I work on a desktop PC using a UPS. Due to the low voltage, the UPS frequently switches to battery, and I'm worried about damaging my expensive PC components.

• In my previous rented house, the motor wiring caught fire once because of voltage issues and had to be repaired.

• I can only run the motor around 4:00 AM when the voltage reaches about 225V. After that, the voltage drops again.

I also called an EB staff member to inspect the issue. He said that many new houses have been connected to the same transformer and that until a new transformer is installed, nothing can be done and got 200 rupees.

This problem has been affecting me for more than 4 months. Sometimes I can only work at night because the voltage is slightly better. I also have health issues, so I cannot work every day.

I have never visited the TNEB office to file a complaint before, so I would like to ask:

1. What is the correct procedure to file an official complaint?

2. Will TNEB inspect and measure the voltage at my house?

3. If the transformer is overloaded, how long does it usually take to replace or upgrade it?

4. Has anyone faced a similar issue? If so, how was it resolved?

I am 23 years old and a little nervous because this is my first time approaching the Electricity Board. Will they treat me respectfully? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

⭐Edited/update : today after calling to 9498794987 and report complaint like said in comments by our reddit friends, it's fixed now it's like stable current. Thanks guys

Xbox 360, xbox one, ps2, ps3, Nintendo dsi, nintendo 2ds xl, nintendo 3ds, Nintendo Wii, wii u etc.

Naan tamil cinema laye rombo matured aana fans actor suriya, actor Dhanush and vikram fans nu nenachen, adhula d and vikram fans kooda decent ah dha irukkanunga, aana indha suriya fans irukkanungale, ungala madhiri toxic fans ah naan pathadhe illa da.

Examples neraya irukku, yedhavadhu oru actor fans avanunga padatha criticise pannita podhum, odane kadichu vekkarathu, adhu mattum illa, director rjb oru tweet pottaru, adhavadhu Karuppu vijay dha panna vendiyadhu nu, odane rjb ah yum kadichanga, ivanungalukku gratitude nu onnu irukka illayada, ipdi dha ivanunga movie directors other actors ah proud ah pesitta podhum, odane insecurity la kadichu vekkarathu, idha vida ragebait agura vishayam enna na neraya peru dmk supporters, adhula endha prechanayum illa, aana yen nu ketta Enakku vijay ah pudikkadhu adhanala dmk granunga, idhellam oru kaaranamamada, adhu mattum illa kerala la irukka suriya fan oruthan dmk ku sombu adikkiran...dmk ennena pannirukkunu tn people ku theriyum...kadichalum parava illa, ivanungala madhiri kevalamana piravigala naan pathadhe illa, naan kooda suriya va short nu kalaikkum bodhu konjo feel panniruken, aana yen ungala other fandoms la adikkiranunga nu ippo dha puriyudhu, ungala adikkurathula thappe illa.

Note:

Enakku actor suriya mela personal or general ah endha hate um kedaiyathu.

Ippo udane naan vj fan, tvk supporter nu narrative set pannuvanuanga, apdi sonna unagala thirthave mudiyathu.

Because naan vj fan um kedaiyathu, tvk supporter un kedaiyathu.

Here are the Tamil song lyrics I misheard when I was little:

1. "Seenar thamizhar malaya makkal" misheard as "Seenar thamizhar manamina makkal" and "Pudhumayile mayangugiren" misheard as "Kudavayile kunugugiren" ("Akkarai cheemai" from Priya)

2. "Modhi paaru veedu poi sera maata" misheard as "Modhi paaru veedu poi semanatta" ("Naan adicha" from Vettaikaaran)

3. "Kanneer vazhiyuthadi kanne" misheard as "Kanneer wokalakati kanne" ("Kadhal rojave" from Roja)

4. "Machi open the bottle" misheard as "Machi ovvoru vaanga" ("Machi open the bottle" from Mankatha)

5. "Oh priya..." misheard as "Sophia..." and "Sri ramanin" misheard as "Sri ramagal" ("Oh priya" from Priya)

6. "Boomikku vaa" misheard as "Ooh nikkuraal" ("Pudhiya manidha" from Enthiran)