On a hot sultry afternoon, we have our little tryst with history in a small wooden palace. There are no red carpets rolled out as we enter, or bells that announce our presence. No brightly lit ...

The palace is situated at Thuckalay in Kanyakumari district of neighbouring Tamil Nadu. Thiruvananthapuram: The magnificent 16th century Padmanabhapuram palace, an erstwhile seat of the Travancore ...

In the summer of 1956, a Humber Pullman limousine appeared one day at the gates of the Padmanabhapuram Palace near Thuckalay. It was a Monday morning, and then, as today, the monument was closed to ...

The long wait to get the 400-year-old Padmanabhapuram palace included in the UNESCO World Heritage sites list seems set to end. An advisory committee on World Heritage Matters constituted by the Union ...

T'puram: The annual procession of idols from Padmanabhapuram, ahead of the Navratri festival, began on a devotional note. Before the procession, the ceremonial handing over of the sword took place ...

With the Supreme Court deciding a controversy over the management of Kerala’s Padmanabhaswamy temple, Lounge revisits another iconic structure named after the deity The 14-part complex of the ...