The current crisis in Sri Lanka makes us wonder where Sri Lankan Tamils would be now if Prabhakaran had settled for peace at some point. At the beginning of the Fourth Eelam War that destroyed him and his organization, he said the Sri Lankan government was just not genuinely interested in...
Sri Lanka is facing its worst economic crisis since gaining independence from the British in 1948 and the once ethnically polarised Sri Lankan nation has united and is up in arms against the ruling, all-powerful and corrupt Rajapaksa family. "Go Home Gota" has become the rallying cry of...
Relations between the ruling DMK led by M K Stalin and Tamil Nadu Governor suffered a new low with DMK leaders repeatedly raising the issue of non-cooperation on the part of the Governor, and his delay in providing assent or taking action on the Bills sent to him by the state government for...
India’s island neighbour, Sri Lanka is facing its worst economic and political crisis in over 70 years, with food prices soaring by a record 30 percent in March 2022, alone. Basic necessities are now beyond the reach of most of the island nation’s 22 million population. Shortage of medicine,...
The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and its leader, Tamil Nadu chief minister M. K. Stalin have, in the recent past, been seeking a national role. It has sought to project its brand of social justice – economic populism and social engineering in favour of backward classes – on the national...
Go Home has become the name of the anti-government protests in Sri Lanka. The government has taken several steps to mollify protesters but they haven’t quite worked so far. As K S Radhakrishnan wrote in inmathi.com earlier, the government lost majority in Parliament today. Dharmalingam Ganesh,...
In its reasoning rejecting exclusive 10.5% reservation for vanniyar community, the Supreme Court has held that the state government has the power to order such caste-based sub quotas but the 2021 legislation was not backed by recent data, analysis and scientific reasoning. The Supreme Court has...
Moovalur Ramamirtham Ammaiyar was a pioneering feminist and Dravidianist whose life and work is worth recalling in the context of International Women’s Day. She was an associate of leading luminaries in Indian politics such as Mahatma Gandhi, Periyar, Thiru Vi Ka, Varadarajulu Naidu, Anna and...
Facebook has been routinely censoring, deleting posts from members regarding the Eelam War, Mullivaikal killings, photos of LTTE leader Prabhakaran, what the Tigers did during the war, as well as Tamil nationalist ideas. This happens not just in India but all over the world where Tamils live...
Some analysts are arguing that a pan-Indian Dravidian model may be the best way to defeat the BJP. They have a simplistic view of the so-called Dravidian model of Tamil Nadu as just politics based on OBC empowerment against upper caste groups and economic populism. Secular thinkers see that the...
