Kalyanaraman M
Opinion

Mani Ratnam is dead, long live Mani Ratnam!

Chekka Chivantha Vaanam starts out featuring all the Mani Ratnam tropes. It pays ritual homage to Godfather through a Corleone-like family. There is the don who is shot but survives, and he has three sons and a daughter. The first son is a hot-head and not terribly bright whereas the third is...

Read More

Uncategorized

Divya Bharathi laughs often. On the phone, it doesn’t sound like nervous laughter. There is a wide-eyed, innocent quality to it. It is likely the shy giggle of a woman who grew up in a village. But, on Saturday, there is every likelihood that this film-maker would face police action. Media...

Read More

Politics

Portrait of the politician as a family man

In many ways, M Karunanidhi was the man that most males would aspire to become. Like most men, Karunanidhi had a personal life, a professional life and a family life. Most men wish that somewhere these three lives would meet and sync, if not coalesce. Their lives would have been well lived if...

Read More

Uncategorized

Aruna Sairam Sangeeta Kalanidhi

[iframe src='https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/timeline3/latest/embed/index.html?source=1u1oQEk61N8VMuW0n0Sr-EmnmfJiygtbo3Yy0KVTEvlo&font=Default&lang=en&start_at_end=true&initial_zoom=2&height=650' width='100%' height='650' webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen...

Read More

Uncategorized

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">NDMA&#39;s Press Statement on the Coimbatore disaster drill incident: <a href="https://t.co/7EAGYNMVVG">https://t.co/7EAGYNMVVG</a> <a...

Read More