In Sri Lanka, known for violent uprisings put down by brutal government crackdowns, the power of non-violent protests proved its mettle today [May 9] when Sri Lanka’s beleaguered Prime Minster Mahinda Rajapaksa finally caved into the nation’s demand and resigned from office, a short while ago. ...
Chennai was the first city to celebrate May Day in India. As early as 1923, Singaravelar conducted May Day meetings in front of high court and at the Tiruvellikeni beach. Subramaniya Siva and Krishnaswamy Sarma and other Congress leaders participated in the meeting. The theme of the meetings...
Sri Lanka has approached many for help including IMF to overcome crisis created largely by bad governance. The unprecedented economic and political crisis in the face of rising public debt that has escalated to unsustainable levels coupled with low foreign currency reserves, insufficient to pay...
Once the uncrowned king of Sri Lanka and hailed as the hero of 6.9 million Sri Lankans, former President and incumbent Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa is today referred to as the Naki Myna – a derogatory reference to an old man - by the very people who once hero worshipped him. Mahinda...
If the Arumugaswamy Commission has uncovered something so far, it is a truism: political gain rules politicians, not loyalty and principles. Setting up the commission was a pre-condition for O Panneerselvam rejoining the AIADMK headed by then chief minister Edappadi Palaniswamy. OPS who was...
After Ilaiyaraja, it’s now the turn of Bhagyaraj to endorse Narendra Modi. The BJP has certainly hit the bull’s eye as far as their choice of film personalities to back them goes. Ilaiyaraja is not just a celebrity but he is someone Tamils see as one of their own, a man so rooted that he...
Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi, who is in the thick of a controversy over his 'inaction' relating to several Bills passed by the DMK government and against whom several political activists threw black-flags towards his convoy in Mayiladuthurai on April 19, left for New Delhi on April 20,...
Every Tamil seeking solace often turns to Ilaiyaraja songs. This may sound an exaggeration but has an element of truth, for Ilaiyaraja’s music rules the hearts and minds of Tamils. In the last few days, however, his writing has ruled media space in Tamil Nadu. The preface Ilaiyaraja wrote for a...
The role of political Buddhism has come to the focus with the political and economic crisis in Sri Lanka continuing. A young, frustrated and angry voxpopuli is increasingly demanding that the extremely unpopular President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his family in government should quit. The...
When Chenna Reddy was Tamil Nadu Governor (1993 – 1996), then chief minister Jayalalithaa boycotted a tea party he gave protesting against his interference in administration. History has repeated after 27 years. With the number of bills and government recommendations pending for Tamil Nadu...
