Tamil Nadu students from Ukraine have seen the East European nation being invaded and ravaged. They have gone through a terrible ordeal to get out of the conflict zone to safety. They endured tiring journeys in crowded trains and buses, walked in sub-zero temperatures and braved uncertainty and...
The DMK has been able to send across a strong message of women empowerment in the party and in the administration with 11 of the new 20 Mayors being women, breaking the AIADMK's traditional women votebank carefully cultivated by MGR and Jayalalithaa. In most elections in the past, the AIADMK...
On International Women’s Day we take some time to ponder the issue of hijab and the media’s approach to it. When the issue was raging on national media, we were pondering if anything needed to be said about it on inmathi.com. Hijab was a non-issue in Tamil Nadu and will remain one, one hopes....
Operation Ganga to evacuate Indians from Ukraine has had some successes but also exposed several shortcomings. More than 10,000 Indians have been evacuated and credit for this must go to the four ministers – Gen. VK Singh, Hardeep Singh Puri, Kiren Rejiju and Jytoriaditya Scindia. It must...
For Periyar, newspapers, magazines and public speaking were the vehicles of communication of his ideas.
In Chennai, the BJP which went alone in the urban local body polls held recently got more than 10% of the votes in 50 of the 200 wards. For a party that had little presence on its own in the DMK bastion, the BJP performance in Chennai seemed to indicate growth. The BJP’s candidates came second...
The recently concluded urban local body polls in Tamil Nadu had the BJP going alone for the first time since 2011. Elections in TN often generate much attention. Regional identities, welfare politics and Dravidian ideology rule the narrative in them. Every election comes with a distinctive...
Operation Ganga has started with four ministers arriving in countries neighbouring Ukraine to rescue and bring back home some 20,000 Indian students including around 5,000 Tamils. Many of the Tamils in Ukraine are students drawn to the relatively cheaper medical education there compared to what...
Indifference to local body polls, moved polling centers meant many did not vote. This might have affected the BJP’s prospects in Ward 124
Has the BJP really increased its presence in Tamil Nadu as state party chief K Annamalai claims. Check out what the numbers say.
