Farmers’ unions called for a jubilant end to their peaceful protest. The battle had been won even before the farm laws were repealed. This is because the protest had forged social solidarity bet...

Like alchemy, which was an obsessive concern for the medieval world, modern democracies are forever preoccupied with unearthing the secrets of winning elections. In the not-so-distant past, striking t...

South Chennai has a fascinating lane called Anna Street, ‘Anna’ being an abbreviation of Annadurai, the charismatic scholar-leader of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and the first non-Congre...

A change is best sensed from everyday happenings. Different regions of India are displaying aspects of religious discrimination as though to leave no doubt that expectations of peaceful coexistence &m...

DMK leader Kanimozhi Karunanidhi met Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik  here on Wednesday to hand over a letter of Tamil Nadu chief minister M.K. Stalin on the National Eligibility-cum-Entranc...

The DMK government in Tamil Nadu has announced a package of over Rs 1,500 crore to spruce up temple administration and declared that it does not exploit “bhakti (religiosity)” to stoke vio...

It is not surprising that two acts of Tamil Nadu chief minister M.K. Stalin last month went largely unnoticed, rather ignored, in today’s “new India”. In the first instance, the chi...

He recalled that just two hours from then, the two were part of intense discussions at the Estimates Committee and now "I couldn't believe my eyes, seeing his transformation from a politician...

Strong stand Sir — A debate has broken out between the government of Tamil Nadu and the Centre with the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam-ruled dispensation insisting on using the term ‘ondriya a...

What looks like a storm in a teacup may spill over the rim. The debate in Tamil Nadu regarding the use of the term, ‘Union government’, by M.K. Stalin, the chief minister heading the new D...