Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin has quietly changed the portfolios of some of his ministers, indicating his disappointment over their performance. Stalin is said to have observed that only Finance Minister PTR Palanivel Thiagarajan, Industries Minister Thangam Thennarasu, Health Minister...
The buzz lately in political circles has been that the DMK could be sidling up to the BJP. But if one looks at the past patterns of partnership of the two main Dravidian parties, it becomes evident that the people of Tamil Nadu have always picked the secular alliance. The biggest danger...
Will the New Year bring in its wake a new equation in the relationship between the Union government at the Centre and the Tamil Nadu government, or between two diametrically opposed parties, the BJP and the DMK? This is the question uppermost in the minds of political parties as the State gets...
The DMK government's legislation seeking exemption from NEET for examinations to medical and dental colleges in Tamil Nadu could well meet the same fate as ordinances and resolutions sent by previous governments on the issue. Recently, Chief Minister MK Stalin had met with state Governor RN...
The simultaneous transfer of the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court, Sanjib Banerjee, to the Meghalaya High Court, as well as the senior-most judge of the Allahabad High Court, Munishwar Nath Bhandari, to the Madras High Court, raises more questions than answers. Has the entire exercise...
Tamil Nadu's famous poet Kannadasan in a song of everlasting beauty for the Tamil film Paadhakaanikkai (பாதகாணிக்கை), sung by TM Soundararajan, tuned by Viswanathan Ramamurthy runs thus: வீடு வரை உறவு வீதி வரை மனைவி காடு வரை பிள்ளை கடைசி வரை யாரோ? veedu varai uravu veedhi varai manaivi kAdu...
The verdict of Madras High Court's Madurai Bench quashing the much-touted 10.5 per cent quota for Vanniyars within the Most Backward Class (MBC) category in Tamil Nadu Reservation, has created pandemonium and chaos in political circles of Tamil Nadu. A question mark now prevails over the...
A goat needs no beard, the State needs no Governor -- that was the refrain of former chief minister and DMK founder C N Annadurai, making it clear that the DMK did not approve of the post which the DMK charged was intended to curb the powers of an elected government. The DMK, in the sixties and...
V K Sasikala, who wielded enormous power as aide of former chief minister and AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa, begins her struggle to gain control of the party with a week-long tour of her home turf, the Thevar-dominated southern districts of Tamil Nadu. While arch rival former CM Edappadi K...
Media outlets devote much space to Fort St George. But, more than 2,500 years ago, in the Chennai metropolitan region, Kurumba kings built 24 forts in as many divisions and ruled the region, vanquishing other kings. The Mackenzie manuscripts give us details about the Kurumba kings, their...
