Tamil Nadu, already earning a notorious tag for its efforts to put down dissent especially against the BJP, blotted its copybook further with the arrest of a 28-year-old research scholar from Canada, Lois Sofia, for shouting, “down with Modi, BJP-RSS fascist...
Rangaraj | Sep 4, 2018
Leader after leader of various opposition parties, speaking at the Kalaignar condolence meeting in Chennai on August 30, stressed that the newly-elected president M K Stalin will play a crucial role in the formation of the next government at the Centre. For Union...
Rangaraj | Aug 31, 2018
The newly-elected president of the DMK, M K Stalin will not be as towering a personality as Muthuvel Karunanidhi. However, he will be seen as a more inclusive leader than his father. Stalin doesn’t believe in berating those who have faith in God and religion,...
Rangaraj | Aug 29, 2018
Newly-elected DMK president M K Stalin, in a move to scotch speculation over growing ties between his party and the BJP, gave a clarion call to oust the Modi government which wanted to saffronise India and suppress regional languages of the country. In a...
Rangaraj | Aug 28, 2018
As indicated by inmathi.com, M K Stalin has been elected unopposed as DMK president. He takes over as president on August 28 morning at the party general council meeting in Chennai when party general secretary K Anbazhagan will formally declare the results of...
Rangaraj | Aug 27, 2018
The BJP is working overtime to stitch a pre-poll alliance with the DMK for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections as it is convinced that a tie-up with the ruling AIADMK in Tamil Nadu may not yield the desired results. PM Narendra Modi’ s re-election plan may hinge on...
Rangaraj | Aug 26, 2018
One of the best kept secrets of the world was DMK President M Karunanidhi’s relationship with saint Amogam Swami of Chennai. Grandson of Kumbakonam Fiddle Rajamanickam Pillai, Amogam Swami is today spiritual guru for a number of celebrities. Karunanidhi was among...
Rangaraj | Aug 24, 2018
Alarm bells must ring about the food security situation in Tamil Nadu as the acreage of paddy cultivation has been steadily and surely coming down, with the decline being one third compared to 1980. The only saving grace is that the yield of paddy per acre has...
Rangaraj | Aug 18, 2018
What began as a condolence meeting for DMK president M Karunanidhi at party headquarters, Anna Arivalayam, on August 14, 2018, ended up as a show of strength by working president and Karunandhi’s son M K Stalin, indicating that the party was almost fully behind...
Rangaraj | Aug 14, 2018
Carnatic and bhajan singer O S Arun pulled out of the music programme “Aesuvin Sangame Sangeetham”, based on Carnatic ragas for Christian devotional songs on Christ, following threats from Hindu right-wing organizations which had hit out at Carnatic musicians for...
Rangaraj | Aug 14, 2018
In a stern message to DMK working president and brother M K Stalin, former Union minister M K Alagiri visited the Karunanidhi Samadhi on the Marina to vent his anger against Stalinisation of the DMK in O Paneerselvam style to indicate to the DMK family that he...
Rangaraj | Aug 13, 2018
The death of DMK patriarch Muthuvel Karunanidhi known as Kalaignar has put his family and the party under enormous pressure to keep their fold together given the contradictions and conflicting interests among several family members. Karunanidhi’s son M K Stalin,...
Rangaraj | Aug 10, 2018
He Used One-Liners to Reach the Masses One night, after concluding a public meeting in Coimbatore, Karunanidhi called up the Murasoli (DMK party organ) office in Chennai and asked the news editor whether the report on his speech had arrived, and whether the article...
Rangaraj | Aug 9, 2018
Used One-Liners to reach the masses One night, after concluding a public meeting in Coimbatore, Karunanidhi called up the Murasoli (DMK party organ) office in Chennai and asked the news editor whether the report on his speech had arrived, and whether the article...
Rangaraj | Aug 9, 2018
The High Court decision on having the Karunanidhi Memorial come up at Anna Memorial is a victory for the DMK in the decades-old battle with the AIADMK. Just as the news broke, M K Stalin, Kanimozhi as well as A Raja and Dayanidhi Maran were seen breaking into tears...
Rangaraj | Aug 8, 2018
The DMK has officially sought the setting up of Kalaignar Memorial next to Anna Memorial where the body of Karunanidhi could be buried, deputy leader of Opposition in the Tamil Nadu Assembly and senior leader of the party, Durai Murugan said in Chennai on August 7...
Rangaraj | Aug 8, 2018
Muthuvel Karunanidhi (born as Daksinamoorthy on 3 June 1924 to to Muthuvel and Anjugam) served India with distinction in several fields, both at the national level and in the State. A prolific Tamil writer and orator, Karunanidhi, fondly known as Kalaignar, was...
Rangaraj | Aug 7, 2018
The condition of DMK president and former chief minister M Karunanidhi deteriorated on Monday, August 6, 2018, even as doctors admitted that there was a dip. Karunanidhi is undergoing treatment at the Cauvery hospital in Chennai. He was moved to the hospital ICU on...
Rangaraj | Aug 6, 2018
For almost a decade, K Sathyanarayanan has been performing on an instrument that would appear to be totally unsuited to Carnatic music – gamakas. In 2001, he demonstrated how the gamakas, the hallmark of the genre, could be coaxed out of the keyboard, which critics...
Rangaraj | Aug 6, 2018
A wave of prayers, demonstrations of camphor-vermilion piety, and mass worship with participation of DMK functionaries and cadres in front of Kauvery hospital where DMK president and self-styled rationalist leader M Karunanidhi is battling for life, has brought...
Rangaraj | Aug 1, 2018
July 21, 2018, marks the 651st anniversary of the Madrasapatnam inscription of Kamapana II at Penneswaramadam in Krishnagiri taluk, Krishnagiri district. The inscription on a rock surface near the Pennaiyar river dated July 21, 1367 established that Madrasapatnam,...
Rangaraj | Jul 29, 2018
Inmathi.com launches today its new Forum -- a community for music lovers, with an interview featuring film composer Ramesh Vinayagam who presents an exclusive Carnatic concert with 30 leading musicians who will also render some of his own compositions this evening...
Rangaraj | Jul 28, 2018
Rajinikanth’s statements indirectly justifying police action in the Thoothukudi Sterlite issue, praise of some work by the AIADMK government especially that of School Education Minister K A Sengottaiyan, are typical strategies of the actor to have the State...
Rangaraj | Jul 26, 2018
The refusal of Union Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to meet Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam in New Delhi on July 24 has come as a shock to OPS supporters whose main trump card in the past was his ease-of-doing business with BJP ministers at...
Rangaraj | Jul 25, 2018
The no-confidence motion in the Lok Sabha on July 20, 2018, could not have come at a worse time for the ruling AIADMK in Tamil Nadu. The AIADMK had taken a stand against the NDA government at the Centre on recent issues like UGC, NEET for Siddha, Cauvery etc., to...
Rangaraj | Jul 20, 2018
