Maaran is a journalist movie. In Indian cinema, there is a good cop movie. There is a bad cop movie. There is a thief movie. There is a village movie. Like these there is a journalist movie. Just as cop movies portray policemen as ridiculously corrupt and horribly brutal or super efficient and...
On International Women’s Day we take some time to ponder the issue of hijab and the media’s approach to it. When the issue was raging on national media, we were pondering if anything needed to be said about it on inmathi.com. Hijab was a non-issue in Tamil Nadu and will remain one, one hopes....
Has the BJP really increased its presence in Tamil Nadu as state party chief K Annamalai claims. Check out what the numbers say.
Kadaisi Vivasayi is a fantasy—it feels like the wishful thinking of a first-generation IT worker in OMR who has come from a Theni village.
Chief Minister Stalin argues that Tamil Nadu’s case against NEET is not being heard, but he too is not acknowledging flaws in earlier system
Chennai autos have a striking sound. The beats may differ but the instrument is the same in the hands of Chintadripet’s ‘percussionists’
Mass support for the Sterlite protests drove a diverse cast of characters with their own interests to converge for a common goal.
What’s the big deal about the Budget speech when it hardly discusses 10% of the actual Budget of the Indian economy? And, where’s inclusivity if the focus is on Hindi PR terms like Amrit Kaal and Gati Shakti. This just doesn’t cut it for Tamil Nadu and non-Hindi-speaking states.
Sterlite has a history of managing to reopen after executive and judicial closure orders. The police firing on May 22, 2018 which killed 13 people, seemed like curtains for the plant. But the management has certainly not given up. The company’s appeal against the government order closing it was...
Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan could be in contention for the job of President of India, as the term of the incumbent Ram Nath Kovind comes to a close. A threat to no one, Tamilisai’s possible elevation could be just the token the BJP needs to make headway in Tamil Nadu—even if not in vote share.
