The Lady Vanquishes

She Who Must Not be Named

When Jayalalithaa ceases to be a noun and becomes a political pronoun

Reading the Future in the Ashes of Thursday

A comrade who defies both biology and ideology in Kerala. The triumph of Kancheepuram kitsch in Tamil Nadu. The compelling subaltern-sandesh socialist in Bengal. A Modi wave on the Brahmaputra. And a Family that couldn't provide the sheltering shadow for a withered party...The summer thriller of 2016

Tamil Nadu: The Cult of Mother is Intact

For the first time, Tamil Nadu has voted back an incumbent party contesting without an ally

Jayalalithaa: The Mother of All Battles

A smug Jayalalithaa parachuting into constituencies, Stalin in damage control mode, smaller parties turning up the heat. V Shoba watches the great election circus in Tamil Nadu

The Deluge And the Deluded

No flood could wash away the anger of Chennai

J Jayalalithaa: The Phoenix

J Jayalalithaa, acquitted by the court, returns to reclaim the crown. Is she on her way to become Tamil Nadu’s most powerful political icon?

Dravidian-Hindutva axis in Tamil Nadu: The slow death of the Periyar atheist

The Invisible Empress of Surrealistan

How Jayalalithaa still rules Tamil Nadu

Co-opting the Dead

Take reports of suicides following Jayalalithaa’s conviction with a pinch of salt