For many of the framers of the Constitution, their legacy is lost and worse, forget the last word, no word is being uttered. It’s always Ambedkar, Nehru, Patel, Rajendra Prasad—and sure, they were great men of mettle.
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Plush Greens and Grey Zones: How Raj Bhavans Became Constitutional Ambiguities From Imperial Lodges to Constitutional Lounges Raj Bhavans were…
India’s constitutional machinery was designed to run on restraint. Governors were never meant to be regular visitors to courtrooms. Read more in part two of the series…
The Constitution of India deliberately dismantled dyarchy at the state level. Executive authority was to flow from the elected council of ministers, responsible to the legislature. The Governor was positioned as a constitutional head—an institutional hinge, not a political engine.
Pongal isn’t just a harvest festival; it’s a four-day sensory overload where the steam from a clay pot competes with the smoke of the Bhogi bonfire, and the aroma of jaggery is often eclipsed by the smell of butter popcorn in a packed cinema hall.
Pundits may claim that the PMK’s latest leap into the AIADMK-BJP combine was expected, but then with the Ramadoss clan, one can never be too sure.
By upholding a single judge’s directive permitting the lighting of the Karthigai Deepam on the ancient Deepathoon pillar at the hilltop, the division bench reaffirmed something more fundamental than a ritual
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Tamilnadu’s trysts with tragedy continues. The latest is a Actor-politician Vijay’s rally that has so far claimed thirty eight lives, 8 children and 16 women…