Even while asserting that the AIADMK alliance will win all 40 seats in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry in the 2024 Parliament elections, former chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami (EPS) who recently led his party’s protest against the ruling DMK, totally avoided speaking on the Narendra Modi...
Close on the heels of the BJP changing its politics in Tamil Nadu from playing up Hindu-ness to now taking up Tamil Nationalism, the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) too has switched to a Tamil nationalist platform from its earlier Vanniyar community plank, which did not fetch it any gains in the...
Dr J B Prashant More, a Puducherry-born, Paris-based historian, is already familiar to Inmathi readers, as in an earlier interview, he unravelled the mystery of freedom fighter Subhas Chandra Bose’s death or disappearance. An expert in Indian Muslim history, he wrote his doctoral thesis on the...
In what appears to be peace of sorts brokered by the BJP, leaders of the various AIADMK factions have stopped attacking each other after a meeting between former Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami and Governor RN Ravi on November 23. But, the meeting could have been aimed at mending fences...
Development sector professional Deivanayagam Devanand of Jaffna, Sri Lanka is the former chief of the Jaffna Media Development Centre and is currently the Jaffna district secretary of the Sri Lankan NGOs Confederation. During the civil war in the island nation, he was instrumental in...
Actor Vijay’s film Varisu has run into a couple of political problems even before its Pongal release — one interstate and the other within his own film fraternity in which real-life politicians hold the strings. As the Telugu festival Makar Sankranti falls on the same day as Tamils’ Pongal,...
Former Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami (EPS) has firmly rejected BJP’s plans to bring together all the warring AIADMK factions as one, diminishing the saffron party’s already slim chances of winning a few seats in Tamil Nadu during the 2024 general election. A contest among the warring...
Struggling to make notable gains in playing its usual Hindu chord in Tamil Nadu, the BJP has shifted its attention to Tamil identity politics. Union Home Minister Amit Shah, while visiting the state recently, praised the Tamil language and requested Chief Minister M K Stalin to introduce Tamil...
Many observers heap praise on Rahul Gandhi’s character, calling him very humane and eminently decent. I too would like to think he is, but am afraid there’s a blind spot – the Lankan Tamil issue, more particularly when it comes to those convicted of assassinating his father. He just would not...
The Supreme Court judgment to release all the six convicts in former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi assassination case has brought into focus the role of Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi at a time when the DMK and its alliance parties are up in arms against his ‘autocratic and undemocratic...
