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…
The phrase ‘Hindu mythology’ is a misnomer, invented by muddled or motivated minds. The fact that modern archaelogical tools or anthropological studies
Hidden in plain sight in the Congress manifesto 2024 is this bombshell, rather a boomerang. Under the head ‘Economy’, there is a declaration in bold print: ‘TIME FOR A RE-SET’.
We don’t usher in, or step into, the new year. It dawns upon us, come Jan, come what may. Time and tide wait for none and are not certainly heralded by a mere flip of a new calendar.
My name is water. The need to introduce myself are many and in the current context in Chennai, most urgent.