Kajal Agarwal adorns the cover of this special festival edition. The content is a nice mixture of educative and absorbing articles ranging from travel and cinema to religion and social. There is no dearth of short stories either. Artist Gopulu walks down memory lane kindling nostalgia in the reader.
Sabitha Joseph profiles Goundamani and touches the highlights of the personality of J. Jayalalitha, State Chief Minister, with the accent on her Bharatanatyam skill.
Sujatha Vijayaraghavan, Y. Prabhu, Sri Krishna Gana Sabha secretary, and R. Krishnaswamy, Narada Gana Sabha secretary speaks of artists that made an impact on them in the fields of Bharatanatyam, music and theatre respectively. The essay has been compiled by S. Rajath, who also chats with Pushpa Kandaswamy, daughter of K. Balachander.
Why does the eastern gopuram of the Srirangam temple remain white? Nellai Vivekananda narrates the background.
