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...
Leader of Naam Tamilar Katchi Seeman has acquired a small but youthful support base in parts of Tamil Nadu with his Tamil nationalist platform. In this Q&A with inmathi.com, he fields questions on his political beliefs. As a Tamil nationalist, how do you see India’s Independence Day? Tamil...
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...
The Cauvery issue has severely tested the idea that India shall be a law-governed nation. The system is supposed to work based on checks and balances imposed by constitutionally mandated institutions, but successive Karnataka governments have repeatedly stressed in public, and to a large extent...
