TN State Budget has no tech solutions for urban issues
The State budget is as important as the Union budget, no importance has been given to pre-budget debate on important issues at the district level even in a state like Tamil Nadu, which claims to be a model state for the country. The state government has not...
Sangeetha Kalanidhi award for singer Bombay Jayashree
The Music Academy has announced awards for 2023 for some exponents of Carnatic music. There are scores of music aficionados and even general fans who eagerly wait for this award announcement every year. Bombay Jayashree has been chosen for this year's Sangeetha...
TN Organic Farming Policy lacks vision and action plans
Before the industrial revolution and the large-scale production of chemicals opened up farming to synthetic inputs like fertilisers and pesticides, all farming had been organic farming. In India particularly, the need to become self-sufficient in food production in...
TN budget: Debate throws up mixed reactions
The Tamil Nadu budget-2023-24 presented by Finance Minister PTR Palanivel Thiaga Rajan on March 20, 2023 has evoked mixed reactions in the State.In a panel discussion on the budget, anchored by G. Ananthakrishnan, a senior journalist, on behalf of inmathi.com, Prof....
Tamil Nadu Budget 2023-24: A bit here, a bit there!
The third successive budget speech of Dr. Palanivel Thyagarajan, finance minister of Tamil Nadu, marks a distinct change in its tone and tenor. His first budget speech, preceded by his release of the important White Paper on the Finances of Tamil Nadu, had made sharp...
TN Budget: Women-led households to get Rs 1000 pm
With the much-awaited announcement in the Tamil Nadu Budget on giving women heads of households Rs.1,000 per month from September 15 this year, Finance Minister PTR Palanivel Thiagarajan met one of the key promises of the DMK in the 2021 Assembly election and raised...
Will TN budget offer more than vague promises to Dalits?
P Sivakami, 65, is a Dalit-feminist writer, former IAS officer and also the leader of her own political party Samuga Samathuva Padai. One of the first Dalit women writers in Tamil, she is an author of six novels and over 60 short stories. Interviewed by G...
Keeravani’s Oscar revives interest in his old musical gems
Some film songs that were once irresistibly spellbinding get edged out of public memory with the passage of time. But when composers of those songs or their latest works get recognition anew, those old numbers gush back into memory — like in the case of M M Keeravani....
Will TN Budget be a banger, or squib of Centre’s neglect?
The Tamil Nadu government is set to present its Budget for the year 2023-2024 on March 20 amid expectations that it will keep electoral promises made by the DMK such as aid for women, and that it will announce a return to the Old Pension Scheme, despite constraints....
Whispering to elephants is part of tribal life in The Nilgiris
The Oscar award for The Elephant Whisperers, a documentary short film, is a global tribute to the tribal people living in harmony with nature and wildlife in the Nilgiris. The film tells the life story of the couple Bomman and Bellie of the Kattunayakan tribe, who...
‘Organic farming policy lacks grasp of grassroots’
Members of organic farming organizations have said that the organic farming policy announced by the Tamil Nadu government is a good effort but lacks understanding and proper action plans. Arachalur Selvam, president, Tamil Nadu Traditional Farmers Federation said:...
Demand to restore old pension scheme rising: union chief
Human beings serve society by engaging in economic production and distribution or by providing services, among other things. After decades of work, say, at age 60, one feels so tired as to withdraw from the services. Then it is for society to take care of his/her...
At Pondy, Bharathi poured scorn on Dravidian movement
Dr. J.B. Prashant More, a Puducherry-born and Paris-based historian, is already a familiar face to the readers of inmathi.com as he has, in earlier interviews, spoken about various subjects including the Muslims emergence in South India, freedom struggle leader Subhas...
Naatu Naatu Golden Globes success huge for film industry
A typical ‘kuthu’ dance-and-song number, peppy and spicy, from an Indian film has won global recognition for the first time. The wildly popular song Naatu Naatu from the superhit Telugu film RRR made history at the 80th Golden Globes as it became the first Indian song...
First Tamil heroine TP Rajalakshmi fought for women, freedom
At a time when child marriage was the norm, women’s re-marriage a sin and women’s liberation pooh-poohed, a daring woman rose up — breaking free from the shackles of patriarchy — and stormed the male bastion. T P Rajalakshmi sang and acted in stage plays and films and...
Govt must stop officials’ misuse of Namma Chennai app
The Greater Chennai Corporation has sometimes faced stringent judicial strictures over allegations of corruption, one of the cases being H Lakshmi vs The Commissioner (2018), where the Madras High Court ordered it to transfer all its vigilance staff en masse in a case...
Kerala, Karnataka promote menstrual cups for better periods
Kerala is abuzz with a ‘No to pads, opt for M-cups’ campaign, as the state government, various agencies and people’s representatives spread awareness about the use of menstrual cups for periods instead of sanitary napkins. The menstrual cup is a reusable and...
Tamils must admit to, end bias against migrant workers
A Facebook post that came up recently featured a photo of film star Rajinikanth standing next to a shorter, scraggy looking man – purportedly a daily wage worker. The accompanying comment said both came from up north for survival and they should know their place and...