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Tamil Nadu politics

An Unusual Kind of Sorrow

Madhavankutty Pillai

On the shades of grief in Tamil politics

The Castaways: The Life of Sri Lankan Refugees

They fled home only to be confined to subhuman conditions in the so-called special camps of Tamil Nadu 

She Who Must Not be Named

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

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

Assembly Elections 2016: Backlash or Backslap?

How the minority vote will make the most decisive difference in the coming Assembly polls

Jayalalithaa vs Karunanidhi: Absentee Amma and the Scriptwriter

It’s epic kitsch all over again as Jayalalithaa meets Karunanidhi in the arena for what could be their last big battle. Open watches the preparations

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