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Rajini’s Baba back to tap recent interest in ‘Hindu’ films?
A little over two decades since its first release, Rajinikanth’s Baba comes calling at cinemas in a relatively new avatar, refurbished and reinvigorated. Baba’s comeback has set off expectations that the 2002 box office dud will rise up from the dead like a phoenix. Of late, social media has...
PMK shifts planks from caste to Tamil nationalism
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...
Govt must get off the fence, act on human-animal conflict
As human settlements in the Nilgiris have expanded over the years into wild habitats, leaving animals with no place to go, the incidence of human-animal conflicts in the region has increased. In the past five years, more than 40 people were killed in animal attacks in the Nilgiris district,...
Neera good for health, and farmers’ wealth, if govt permits
“If one drinks a glass of neera in the morning instead of tea, etc., he should not need anything else for breakfast,” Gandhi once said. Yet, the health food, neera, is not freely available to the hordes of fitness and wellness enthusiasts around, simply because of some archaic government rules...
Skilled like Priya, these women footballers must get govt aid
The wrongful death of young football talent Priya is bringing attention to other young women footballers like her. They too come from meagre means and have overcome the stranglehold of social mores to follow their passion. For these women from North Chennai, a metonym for squalor and poverty in...
Indian Muslims diverse, can’t have national party: HistorianThe Eighth Column
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...
From the attic: A 1957 book shows Periyar in new light
This time around, from my attic tumbled out an old book which, re-read out of curiosity, took me to the world of political slugfests and rows of decades ago. The 52-page book Naan Kanda Periyar (The Periyar I saw) was published by Tamilagam way back in 1957. My attic (paran) is home to old...
Once poor man’s food, mushrooms elevated to five-star dish
Once consumed by people on the lowest rung of society to satiate hunger in times of food scarcity and drought, mushrooms now figure prominently on glossy menus of five-star hotels in the country. The transition of a mushroom’s character from proletariat to elite is quite amazing, as is its...
Meeting with Guv: Truce among AIADMK factions or BJP tie-up?
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...
‘Superstar’ soundtrack maker Deva hits the spot with concert
Music director Deva, who has been composing for Tamil films for the past 30 years, for the first time held a public concert, and it’s going viral. On the occasion of his 72nd birthday on November 20, Deva who is most famous for creating the soundtrack to which Rajinikanth attained true...
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