In a recent issue, India Today magazine ranked states in India on many parameters such as income, health, governance and ease of doing business. One parameter that stood out was the Happiness Index. According to that index, Kerala is the happiest state while Gujarat is a distant second. Coming...
Oh Manapenne! released in October revolves around a start-up. The remake of the Telugu film Pelli Choopulu, the Tamil flick directed by Kaarthikk Sundar saw Harish Kalyan and Priya Bhavani Shankar reprising the roles of Vijaya Devarakonda and Ritu Verma. The protagonist wants to become a chef...
English jurist William Blackstone who has penned commentaries on English laws has said in his book, "It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer". For ages, our society has followed the same principle as a yardstick for delivering justice. The Madras High Court recalled the...
Jai Bhim film has shed light once again on police brutality. At the core of what is wrong in our system is the power that the police have to arrest people without a warrant from a judicial magistrate. The power of arrest is used arbitrarily, whimsically and capriciously, and sometimes...
Jai Bhim for all its success and hard-hitting plot has run into a political controversy. The war of words is out in the open between PMK leader Anbumani Ramadoss and actor Suriya. Twitteratti is trending ‘We stand with Surya’ and JaiBhim hashtags as netizens are garnering support for the actor...
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...
Mullaiperiyar has been in the news recently, with Kerala once again raising fears about its safety amidst floods and Tamil Nadu moving ahead on strengthening the Baby Dam so it can raise the water level in the main dam. Just as the issue was once again being debated, director Seenu Ramaswamy...
Rajinikanth and his style continues to have much market value. Producers still want to trade in that value. Rajini’s fans are still eager to see their star – he might be 70 years old, so what? – on screen. But gone are the days when people would watch a movie only for Rajini. In truth, those...
Marxian philosophy holds that what is unchanging is change itself. But this doesn’t apply to Nanmaran, the 74-year-old CPM leader who died recently. Nanmaran never changed. He was always the down-to-earth person whether he was MLA, party worker or neighbor. His economic conditions were always...
Temples have played a big role in history. The reason for this is that temples in those days played a key role in overall administration as they also served as the treasury, king’s court, and so on. Historically, temples have always been owned by government rather than private individuals, nor...
