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Remembering Akilan, Jnanpith award winner, on his birth centenary
This year marks the birth centenary of writer P.V. Akilandam, aka Akilan, who was the first Tamil writer to be honoured with the Jnanpith Award in 1975 for his novel Chithirapavai, Akilan was born June 27 in 1922 in Karur, his mother’s hometown. His father was from Perungalur of Pudukottai...
‘Covid again: Likely no lockdown, no wave either’
We are facing Covid again. It's upon us now. As cases continue to rise and protocols come into effect, physician Dr J Amalorpavanathan explains the situation. In an interview to inmathi.com, Dr Amal, as he is known by many, said the learning from the past is that total lockdowns don’t really...
Tiny housefly holds Kovai village hostage
Bizarre as it sounds, around 500 residents of a village in Coimbatore district are under virtual house arrest everyday. From sun-up till sun down, they are held hostage by a small but odious enemy. For the last five years, the tormented people of Thimmanaicken Palayam in Sulur Municipality have...
Impatient drivers silence Chennai’s no-honking campaign
On June 28, Chief Minister M.K. Stalin made an appeal to Chennai motorists to stop honking unnecessarily, and to join the movement by not honking. He urged them to sign and spread an e-pledge. However, his request was drowned in most parts of the city, as drivers simply pressed on with their...
When a DMK minister sought US response to TN secession
In 1975-76, as the DMK raised the heat against the central government and opposed the Emergency, TN secession from the rest of the country was among the topics that dominated the discourse. Tamil Nadu’s secession cropped up in the despatches and reports sent by US diplomats in then Madras to...
Puducherry students get a helping hand from Sunday Market vendors
By organizing an education and career guidance programme for under-privileged high school students, the Puducherry Sunday Market Roadside vendors have won plaudits for their unique initiative. The vendors at the Sunday Market are largely small operators with meagre resources. But it is their...
Should all Indian artefacts in foreign museums be retrieved?
Art thief Subhash Kapoor's case, in the fall of 2011, sheds light on how many Indian artefacts on display in museums across the world, including idols from temples in Tamil Nadu, were stolen. Some of the most well known of such stolen idols include those in museums in Australia, the US, the UK...
Delhi media is on BJP lap, TN media on DMK: Sumanth Raman
Dr Sumanth Raman -- dentist, social media influencer and TV debate veteran -- says much of the established news media in Tamil Nadu is a “propaganda wing” of the DMK just as the media in New Delhi, especially television channels, function as the propaganda wing of the BJP there. “The media in...
Recasting the many facets of Subramania Bharati- poet, activist and freedom fighter
Statues of the Tamil poet, nationalist and freedom-fighter Subramania Bharati (1882-1921), or Bharatiyar as he is known to Tamils, have been erected in many parts of India as well as abroad. Barring a couple, most of these statues are stereotypical, particularly when it comes to the expression...
Madhavan, really? Rocketry launches aspiring Kamal
One thing that Rocketry certainly does is to show that just like the movie’s theme, the image or what is initially thought to be true is rarely ever so. The image of Madhavan as an aging chocolate-boy – the 50+ boy known as Maddy – is not the entire truth. Directed and written by Maddy turned R...
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