Mahatma Gandhi thought “All English-knowing men have enslaved India”, and said in 1918 “Unless Hindi was given national status, all talk of Swarajya was useless”. He established Dakshin Bharat Hindi Prachar ...
We envisage RAW with a lot of highs and lows pertaining to its cinematic portrayal. A gun trotting classy dapper in the middle of a desert fighting terrorists to someone camouflaging ...
“In life there is one person you must rely on - yourself,” she once said. And that’s exactly how Jayalalithaa, the Amma of millions of people lived her life, slicing through ...
Cho Ramaswamy, veteran journalist, writer, actor, political leader(?) and philosopher had died in Apollo Hospital, a day after his (sort of) protégé Jayalalitha died in the same hospital. Who was Cho? ...
When Jayalalitha cruised to power in the recently held Tamil Nadu assembly elections for the fifth edition, it demonstrated complete hegemony of a party at that given point of time. That ...
Sitting around 2184 Kilometres away from Chennai, here in Delhi, it is really tough to understand the sea of emotions pouring in the coastal state of Tamil Nadu after the sad ...
Former Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao's role in Babri Masjid continues to be debated even 24 years after the disputed structure by the name of Babri Masjid was brought down. ...
In 2002, the Tamil Nadu assembly passed the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Forcible Conversion of Religion Bill. The bill was one of CM Jayalalitha's pet projects. In fact, during the tenure ...
Dr. Jayalalithaa is no more, creating a huge vacuum in the TN political space, people could hate her or worship her but nobody could ignore her! Such was the aura that ...
After Mamata Banerjee's recent theatrics where she accused the central government of trying to destabilize the State Government of West Bengal by using the Army, the governor of Bengal has criticized ...
The whole Jayalalithaa illness episode has brought a very sad question to the fore, are we a nation of vultures? Circling over a patient to make sure she dies even if ...
The day was March 25, 1989. A little over two months ago, elections had been held in the Southern state, the first after the death of MGR, who had been Chief ...
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