Even as the Tamil Nadu BJP gave the predictable communal colour to the Deepavali-eve car bomb blast in Coimbatore, and geared up to cash in on the situation, Chief Minister M.K. Stalin has taken the wind out of the saffron opposition by acceding to its demand for a National Investigation Agency...
Despite having near total control over the AIADMK general council and legislature party, the BJP seems to be mounting pressure on former chief minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami (EPS) to join hands with his former deputy O Panneerselvam (OPS). It is to be seen if he would risk losing the party...
Head constable Raja had come to distribute food packets so his fellow policemen could be fed and have the energy to battle rioters. He was in plainclothes and doing his duty. Ordered by his superiors, he climbed on top of an Eicher police van and shot at protesters with a 0.410 musket – a gun...
During an interview with inmathi.com, data scientist R S Neelakantan said that irrespective of whether you are rightwing, leftwing or centrist, you wouldn’t want babies to die in society. Neelakantan also hints that what makes us save our babies also has little to do with the economic...
I have written enough on Thol Thirumavalavan, prominent Dalit leader from Tamil Nadu. I would not have been tempted to write another but for dear friend N Ravi Kumar’s portrayal in these columns recently. The account seeks to portray Thirumavalavan as a great crusader for secularism and claims...
The Justice A. Arumugasamy Commission set up to inquire into former Chief Minister and AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa’s death has recommended that her aide V. K. Sasikala, her doctor K.S. Sivakumar, the then Health Secretary J. Radhakrishnan and former Health Minister C. Vijayabaskar be...
Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) leader Thol Thirumavalavan has taken the centre stage in opposing saffron politics in Tamil Nadu, with nearly all the DMK allies, including MDMK leader Vaiko,the Left parties and DMK’s parent body, the Dravidar Kazhagam, strongly backing his programmes and...
More than the novel and film Ponniyin Selvan, the BJP’s bid to make use of the film to depict emperor Rajaraja Chola as a Hindu icon has washed away some of the harsh criticism against the medieval king by Leftists, Dalit activists and Periyarists. The debate has helped the Chola emperor gain...
With the elevation of Kanimozhi as the DMK deputy general secretary, party president and Chief Minister MK Stalin has put an end to accusations of obstructing his step sister’s growth with a view to promote his son Udhayanidhi Stalin as the party heir. Though Kanimozhi is also one of the family...
The films of Vetrimaaran have politics. His movies are to do with power, authority and a politics against it In Adukulam, he explored the power dynamic between the guru and the disciple. In Visaranai, he critiqued lawless authoritarianism. In Vada Chennai, he talked about political forces...
