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…
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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…
I don’t want to talk about MGR as a CM, a subject that deserves a thorough and ‘critical’ study. Rather, today’s topic is what made MGR the CM: songs…
Left, Right, Centre, Left of Centre, Far Right, Liberal, Conservative and several such sundry stuff: These ideological labels that litter the lexicon are a legacy of the Western…