Tamilnadu is voting today to elect its 16th Assembly. This is a different election. It is happening in the absence of tall leaders Jayalalithaa and Karunanidhi. This election is an acid test for the leadership of the AIADMK and the DMK, who are testing the waters in the absence of charismatic leaders. Continue Reading
For once, fans of Rajinikanth are against him. The actor, who is on the verge of launching a political party, had told office-bearers of his Rajini Makkal Mandram (RMM) Thursday that he would not become the Chief Minister in case of the party winning the 2021 Assembly election. Continue Reading
An inquiry report has said ousted AIADMK leader V K Sasikala, who is imprisoned at the Parappana Agrahara Central prison in Bengaluru in disproportionate assets case, received preferential treatment in the jail. Continue Reading
Former Chennai Deputy Mayor and Rajinikanth sympathiser Karate Thyagarajan today alleged that it was DMK president M K Stalin who stalled the Superstar from becoming ‘Kingmaker’ when he posed a hurdle to the latter’s attempt to make Congress leader GK Moopanar the Prime Minister in late 1990s. Continue Reading
In the very first article I had made it clear that the isolation of the State, as most recently reflected in its bucking the national poll trend, is both imposed and self-inflicted. In my view the island at the south east bottom of India is not Sri Lanka, but Tamilnadu. Continue Reading
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 academic mindset that believes in categorisation. Continue Reading
“I expected a Lok Sabha seat from South Chennai constituency in the recent parliamentary election but it didn’t materialise. I had hope that I would be re-elected to the Rajya Sabha, but that, too, didn’t happen,” said Maitreyan. Continue Reading
While Udhayanidhi Stalin, son of DMK president M K Stalin, was made the youth wing secretary of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, Nikhil, son of Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy, was named leader of the JD(S) youth wing. Continue Reading
Former AIADMK minister and now Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam leader, Inbathamizhan, has returned to his parent party. Continue Reading
Poll pundits predicting poll prospects seem pretty sure there is no wave this time. How off the mark! If only these ‘experts’ were to see with their eyes instead of perceiving with their intellect, they will realise there are only waves all over the pollscape. And seeing is believing, mind you. Continue Reading