Tamil Nadu

Southern Rethinking

V Shoba

The man behind DMK’s social media strategy works towards a Dravidian makeover

The Tiruppur Model: For A Security Blanket

V Shoba

The evaporation of formal jobs has reshaped the concept of a workday in manufacturing towns like Tiruppur, where young people are only a small crisis away from poverty

Game of Clones

Madhavankutty Pillai

The movie Sarkar adds some more elements to the Tamil political drama

Tamil Nadu: Into the Void

Vaasanthi

Can Stalin survive without the sheltering shadow of Karunanidhi?

M Karunanidhi (1924-2018): End of an Epic

Vaasanthi

He scripted the most enduring show of Dravidian politics

Karunanidhi (1924-2018)

V Shoba

Kalaignar lived the life of a calculating adventurer

The Politics and Poetics of Rajinikanth

Nandhu Sundaram

The Dark Knight rises

Modi’s South Side Story

S Prasannarajan

Karnataka could be the beginning of a new argument that breaches the last resistance of the Vindhyas

Human Evolution: Written in Stone

Lhendup G Bhutia

A new finding in South India poses some tantalising questions on human evolution

A group of Tamil farmers made national headlines one year ago by kicking off a series of absurd protests in Delhi. V Shoba meets key characters from the landmark agitation who are back in their villages battling an unending farm crisis