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J Jayalalithaa (1948-2016): The Ideal and the Icon

In Jaya’s Tamil Nadu, history and biography became one

01 Dec, 2016 - 08 Dec, 2016
Vol 08 | Issue 50

STORIES IN THIS ISSUE

Cho Ramaswamy: The Provocateur

Ullekh NP

Rights and Wrongs

Open

God’s Own Dress Code

Shahina KK

Deepwater Horizon Review

Ajit Duara

This is a film which could have said much more than it does about industrial accidents

Befikre Review

Ajit Duara

The movie is the same old mundane, post modern angst about the impossibility of separating love and lust that we have seen in Hindi films over the last few years

J Jayalalithaa (1948-2016): The Ideal and the Icon

S Prasannarajan

In Jaya’s Tamil Nadu, history and biography became one

J Jayalalithaa (1948-2016): The Last Mother

Vaasanthi

Always a winner. Even in her death

J Jayalalithaa (1948-2016): Farewell to an Icon

V Shoba in Chennai

As Jayalalithaa was interred with state honours next to MGR and CN Annadurai and her life committed to the folds of history, her ups and downs in the mild cycle of electoral politics suddenly seemed inconsequential. She had left behind a legacy of welfare schemes, many of which will have to be upheld by governments to come.

An Unusual Kind of Sorrow

Madhavankutty Pillai

On the shades of grief in Tamil politics

Indraprastha

Virendra Kapoor

From paan shop to boardroom, money concentrates the mind

Nitish Kumar: Savvy Survivor

Kumar Anshuman

Nitish Kumar is cozying up to Modi. Why?

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