Tamil Nadu

The Economics of Floods

Siddharth Singh

The damage to public utilities and infrastructure has been on the rise

Palakkad Ramprasad, 39, Vocalist

Open

The Prodigy

The Ho-Hum Secrets of the Hills

Karthik Shankar

A whodunnit offering readers the opportunity to play murderer bingo

The Southern Frontier

V Shoba

The BJP put up its best-ever show in Karnataka but stopped short of making headway in Kerala and Tamil Nadu

Follow the Script

V Shoba

Keeping Karunanidhi’s literary legacy alive in the arena

Kanimozhi Karunanidhi: Daughter Dutiful

V Shoba

V Shoba catches up with Kanimozhi Karunanidhi as the charismatic DMK leader makes her electoral debut in Thoothukudi

The Gender Card

V Shoba

The outrage at the Pollachi sex abuse racket gives Opposition politicians a foothold in the battle to win the trust of women, a constituency methodically cultivated by MGR and Jayalalithaa

The Tamil Mind

N Kalyan Raman

A cultural study extending from Periyar to Cho

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