Noted film director Pa Ranjith has been talked about a bit in the Tamil social media – context, his hosting a conference in Madurai recently to celebrate the Dalit identity. A few claimed that he was cutting across sectarian identities and hence could indeed provide a refreshingly new...
The results of the five station elections make us wonder if there is any hope for sanity in India. Is it whither India? Or is it just wither India, the India of Gandhi and Nehru? Across the country the more secular liberal sections are wringing their hands in despair, more aghast than ever...
The performance of Rahul Gandhi comes into focus as one charts the recent course of the Congress. In view of Sonia’s health if a heir apparent had to be nominated, Priyanka should have been a natural choice, for she is feisty and has a strong resemblance to her grandmother Indira Gandhi. (This...
What is the Congress, the grand old party (GOP) of India, without the Sonia Gandhi clan helming it? Assuming the terminally ill patient can still be saved in the larger interests of India, how to bring about the miracle? Finally is there any other savior on the horizon? The AAP could be a...
What good is a private member bill or Tamil politicians’ political rhetoric for Lankan Tamils if India won’t sign UN Refugee Convention?
At a time Hindu-Muslim divisions are peaking, Saeed Naqvi’s play The Muslim Vanishes imagines what India would be like, as the name suggests.
The BJP is yet to drop roots in Tamil Nadu, though one could see party flags flying everywhere and functionaries zipping around in glitzy four-wheelers. The Dravidian soil is not exactly conducive to the growth of Hindutva. But things could be changing. K Annamalai, a former IPS official and...
Jai Bhim released on OTT is a smashing success. So was Sarpatta Parambarai. In my opinion, it was activist frenzy that led to their much lauded triumph. I have not even watched Sarpatta Parambarai fully. The movie has many boxing sequences, and I am not a great fan of such scenes. The...
Easily the most disastrous assumption of Karl Marx was that the middle class would be squeezed out as the bourgeoise and the proletariat got locked in mortal combat. The middle class didn’t. On the contrary, they flourished and became some kind of a buffer for the rulers world over. The middle...
