The buzz lately in political circles has been that the DMK could be sidling up to the BJP. But if one looks at the past patterns of partnership of the two main Dravidian parties, it becomes evident that the people of Tamil Nadu have always picked the secular alliance. The biggest danger...
India as a nation entered the trillion-dollar economy club in 2007. India set a goal in 2018 to become a 5 trillion-dollar economy by 2024-25. Amid this, a few states in India have set a vision of becoming trillion-dollar economies. But this seems overly ambitious even though it is a reflection...
The Sri Lankan navy apprehending Tamil Nadu fishermen is nothing new in the narrow Gulf of Mannar. But the way 68 fishermen were held over three days starting Dec. 18, 2021 has made Tamil Nadu fishermen leaders in Rameswaram suspicious. For a while, the fishermen leaders from Ramanathapuram...
While MK Stalin's leadership has given new life to the DMK after the death of M Karunanidhi, the AIADMK is in far worse shape after the loss of Jayalalithaa. The Dravidian parties have fashioned a politics based on welfare and mobilization of the under-priveleged. How relevant is that politics...
Healthy dissent and public debates are key elements of a vibrant democracy. Bad governance or misgovernance can mar this. Misgovernance is a slow reveal which means that only a few grasp quickly what is going on. Democracy is not a recent import as some believe but has been part of the...
As a leader of the opposition, M Karunanidhi was used to the government filing cases against him. On this particular occasion, the case was in reference to a public speech he had made. Karunanidhi read the police complaint and found that his speech had been captured faithfully in the complaint....
Will the New Year bring in its wake a new equation in the relationship between the Union government at the Centre and the Tamil Nadu government, or between two diametrically opposed parties, the BJP and the DMK? This is the question uppermost in the minds of political parties as the State gets...
A feature of Dravidian politics is the title that gets attached to leaders, so much so that the titles often substitute their names. While Periyar itself is a title, Periyar is known by two other names, Thanthai and Ayya, one standing for father and the latter a term of respect. Anna’s title...
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...
A day after the chopper crash in which Chief of Defense Staff Bipin Rawat was killed, YouTuber Maridhas tweeted that Tamil Nadu is “becoming another Kashmir under the DMK regime” and it gives “freedom to form groups that can do any level of treason against the country”. The tweet added that “in...
