Tamil Nadu: The Cult of Mother is Intact

A Radioactive Debate

What the struggle in a Tamil Nadu village says about the other side of development

Disparately, Desperately

What is it that unites the four states? It’s more than the changing idea of welfarism

Jallikattu

While Tamil Nadu is busy preparing for the sport, the Supreme Court has played the proverbial wet blanket by issuing a stay order on the Centre’s notification lifting the ban on it

The Deluge And the Deluded

No flood could wash away the anger of Chennai

Tamil Nadu Floods

Heavy rainfall in the state has led to the deaths of at least 71 individuals, 59 of them in Chennai alone

Two Leaves and A Rebellion

A few thousand women in the hill ranges of Munnar challenge the male dominated trade unions of Kerala

How They Say Cheers

On the demand for prohibition and the form it takes in Tamil Nadu

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