It is our turn to get ‘wicked’. The Tamilnadu Chief Minister’s certificate to himself about his nationalistic credentials does provoke cynics like us to take a peep into his past Of course, quite a few enquiry commissions havedone this before,
Author: T R Jawahar
Dear Mr Rajinikanth, First, accept my hearty greetings on your being conferred the Icon of the Golden Jubilee award of IFFI by the BJP government at the Centre. Of course, we are not treating this as an effort to paint you in saffron hue. Not that you wish it either.
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.
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.
It is time to move from the politics of history to the history of politics. With a small step in this series I am making a giant leap across 900 years to 20th century.
Why TN is forbidden land! Here are the links to all the articles: Why TN is forbidden land! — 1 Why TN is forbidden land! — 2: A conflict of civilisations Why TN is forbidden land! — 3: Tell-tale twists in the tongue tales Why TN is forbidden land! — 4: History-cheaters! Why TN is forbidden land! — 5: The lost past Why TN is forbidden land! — 6: A Century in a capsule Why TN is forbidden land! — 7: ‘Hindi’tva Hegemony Why TN is forbidden land! — 8: Embracing the enemy Why TN is forbidden land!…
Folklore becomes fact, in the modern mind, only with the emergence of hard evidence. As new findings enabled by cutting-edge science and curious seekers confirm ‘beliefs’, the façade of fiction falls off to be firmed up as history.
I was pretty much certain many holy feathers would be ruffled. Why drag sacred Sanskrit into an unseemly fracas? What is the connection? It is my firm opinion that the contents of the last column, that harp on how Tamil scores…
For me, NOTA is not an option howsoever ugly the credentials of the candidates. Yet, I welcome NOTA because it was introduced with the honourable motive of bringing a disillusioned voter to the booth.