Archaeologists are coming up with exciting finds at the Adhichanallur excavation almost on a daily basis. On Tuesday (August 9), they found a bronze deer figurine while just before that they found a gold diadem. The current excavation at the Adhichanallur is being carried out along the...
Here are some facts: LTTE leader V Prabhakaran was responsible for the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi. He ordered the assassination of a host of Sinhalese leaders and other Tamils including long standing leaders of repute and men of unquestioned scholarship and wisdom. Prabhakaran killed almost...
More than three weeks after Srimathi, a Class 12 student, apparently committed suicide in Kaniyamoor, Kallakurichi, it doesn’t appear the police has been able to establish basic aspects of the case. There has been no press briefing accounting for what the police have concluded and what they are...
The recent power tariff hike has thrown the spotlight on the quality of services offered by Tangedco. Many consumers may not mind paying higher tariffs to keep Tangedco in business but would prefer that the services rendered match the charges they pay for the power. Many households across the...
Madurai Rajan was a journalist’s delight. A Dalit rights activist, he knew what reporters wanted and had the knowledge, sources, access and guts to take them to the story when Tamil Nadu was rocked by caste conflict in the mid-1990s. Rajan’s house was in a Pariar colony in Madurai. It had a...
In 1975-76, as the DMK raised the heat against the central government and opposed the Emergency, TN secession from the rest of the country was among the topics that dominated the discourse. Tamil Nadu’s secession cropped up in the despatches and reports sent by US diplomats in then Madras to...
Vikram was the coolest Tamil movie of the 1980s. We knew India made rockets that went into space. But the rocket in Vikram could be used to attack other countries. It could even carry a nuclear weapon. Really? India in the mid-1980s made missiles? India had nuclear weapons? Cool! The Buddha...
During any temple car procession, the standard operating procedure of the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board is to switch off the power in the overhead cables in the streets through which the procession will pass through, said P Muthusamy, former director of engineering at the Tamil Nadu Electricity...
After Ilaiyaraja, it’s now the turn of Bhagyaraj to endorse Narendra Modi. The BJP has certainly hit the bull’s eye as far as their choice of film personalities to back them goes. Ilaiyaraja is not just a celebrity but he is someone Tamils see as one of their own, a man so rooted that he...
Who is Dravidian is a perennial question in Tamil public life. Even the Ilaiyaraja controversy has meandered to that question. The Ilaiyaraja row is not a naturally occurring event that is the job of journalists to uncover and write about. It is a staged event orchestrated to create hype,...
