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Rajini’s ruse: Claiming the law and order mantle of the iron lady, Jayalalithaa
Easily the most disastrous assumption of Karl Marx was that the middle class would be squeezed out as the bourgeoise and the proletariat got locked in mortal combat. The middle class didn’t. On the contrary, they flourished and became some kind of a buffer for the rulers world over. The middle...
TN Govt nominates 2 officers to Cauvery Authority
The Tamil Nadu Government has nominated two officers to the Cauvery Water Management Authority (CWMA) set up by the Centre in accordance with the Supreme Court directive to regulate sharing of Cauvery waters among Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry. TN chief secretary Girija...
Are you planning to study engineering? Here are our tips
This year there are 567 engineering institutions in Tamil Nadu, down from 587 last year The Central government’s National Institutional Ranking Framework ranks educational institutions across India. The ranking can help you choose colleges and courses An institution is evaluated in terms of its...
At the vanguard of the protest, transgenders in Tuticorin
Meghana held out her hands and clapped. “Why are you people doing this?” she yelled. Transgenders often clap while they are in a group to draw attention and ask for money. She wasn’t there to beg, she told Inmathi six days later. She was at the Tuticorin collectorate, demanding that the...
TN CM orders permanent closure of Sterlite
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami has ordered the permanent closure of Sterlite Copper smelting unit in Tuticorin. Meanwhile, District revenue officials have sealed the factory according to police sources. Despite this, residents of Kumarediyapuram, the focus of the 100- day...
A poser to the police: Did you follow your own manual?
The right to protest is one of the fundamental rights of the citizens of India. Of late, several forms of protests have taken place across the country. Sometimes, protests and demonstrations have taken a violent turn. For example, the protest demanding the closure of Sterlite Copper in...
In Tuticorin, an anger that turned radical
Raja, a contract labourer at the Tuticorin port, was heading to the collectorate on the morning of Tuesday, May 22, as per plan, when he saw fires raging inside the complex and policemen in uniform and civvies standing there. Raja was among those walking, or rather...
At Mullivaikal, a battle for survival and dignity
Muhilan* had tied his lungi high up on his waist. During the strip search, he lifted the lungi and bunched it over his bullet wounds – the bullet had entered his body just above the right hip and left the body through the other side. He removed his banian and threw it to the ground. The...
Tamil nationalism: Why India should be worried
Starting from the January 2017 jallikattu protests, Tamil Nadu has been on the boil. There is an overwhelming feeling that the entire country -- Parliament, central government, Supreme Court, and the north Indian media -- has ganged up against Tamil Nadu. Jallikattu went to the wires. The...
Kamal’s party: Where MGR is no template
On February 21, from his modest housing board allotted home in RA Puram, M Kesavan, an auto driver, watched actor Kamal Haasan live on the news launching his political party from Madurai. Wasting no time, Kesavan quit from his position in the Mylapore division of the Congress party, of which he has been a member from the 90s. The following day, he registered online on Makkal Needhi Maiam’s (MNM) website. Not particularly tech savvy, he took the help of kids in the neighbourhood.
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