At the pilgrimage site of Tirumala, one of the most-visited holy centres in the world, before one is allowed to have a darshan of Venkateswara, the presiding deity, one is welcomed by bronze images of ...

Hyderabad: A stone inscription dating to 1516 CE has emerged as the earliest known epigraphical reference to the Bonalu festival in present-day Telangana, offering evidence that the festival and its ...

Unlike the royal-blooded Prataparudradeva of the Solar Lineage, Krishnadevaraya was by all accounts a shudra, the unplanned offspring of a low-caste general and a dasi (servant woman). One story tells ...

A book on Krishnadevaraya, the most popular ruler of the erstwhile Vijayanagara Empire, seems like a natural progression of things for sitar player and author Srinivas Reddy. Growing up with a keen ...

In 16th century India there was an emperor of great magnificence and charisma. It is said that he sometimes dressed in a commoner’s garb to wander the streets of his capital, while in court he sat ...

Imagine an imperial court in south India at the beginning of the 16th century. The king sits at the centre, flanked by women ‘with eyes like blue sapphires’, who are cooling the air with yak-tail fans ...

Actor Tarun Khanna is set to take over as the witty and funloving king, Raja Krishnadevaraya, from Manav Gohil in the TV show, Tenali Rama. “I have played the role of Mahadev previously and in the ...