Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday appealed to the women of Uttar Pradesh to unite and create their “own space” in the Assembly elections next year through indep...

Astute leader Sir — In the past, a change of dispensation in Tamil Nadu has often been accompanied by attempts to erase photographs and mentions of previous occupants of high posts from governm...

A persistent problem that plagues the biopic genre in India is its predilection to whitewash its protagonist. Warts, if at all made even remotely visible, are justified by a backstory earlier or a red...

She took on the bigwigs of her industry, collided with those who ruled Maharashtra, duelled on behalf of Modi, and got on the nerves of those who couldn’t stomach her political opinions. It led ...

With J. Jayalalithaa’s biopic Thalaivii finally releasing in theatres on September 10, Neeta Lulla is having a “beautiful feeling”. “Doing something beautiful and putting it ou...

Prior to becoming the Ukrainian president in 2019, Volodymyr Zelenskiy was a sitcom star with his only political experience being playing a high school history teacher in the 2015 political satire,&nb...

It might be difficult to believe now, but only a decade ago, in the 2011 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, it was Jayalalithaa who shouted the loudest against freebies. She said, “The chief ministe...

Seeking to court the minorities, the AIADMK has in its poll manifesto done an about-turn and promised to press the Centre to repeal the Citizenship Amendment Act. After much haggling, the BJP has bee...

Some questions are fated to remain unanswered. The ruling All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam in Tamil Nadu, with its ally, the Bharatiya Janata Party, must be relieved that V.K Sasikala, former ...

Eyeing a record straight third term, the ruling AIADMK in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday announced its second list of 171 candidates for the April 6 Assembly polls, renominating most of its heavyweights. To...