Tamil Nadu

The Lady Vanquishes

Rohini Mohan

Liberating Jayalalithaa from the image trap

River on Fire

V Shoba

The waters of goodwill between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka are fast receding

A Writer Lifts His Block

Madhavankutty Pillai

On the return of Perumal Murugan

Living to Tell the Tale

Zac O’Yeah

The LTTE’s top ranking hostage on his captivity experience and the complexities of Sri Lanka’s civil war

Reading the Future in the Ashes of Thursday

S Prasannarajan

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

V Shoba

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

A Radioactive Debate

Smriti Daniel

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

Disparately, Desperately

Siddharth Singh

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

Jallikattu

Open

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