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    Around 4,000 students of Everwin Vidyasharam, Kolathur on Thursday, form the name of Kalaignar to pay homage to the late former CM M.Karunanidhi. (Photo:DC)Nation
    Post-MK scene: DMK to play key role in federal front

    For now, the party itself would take steps for providing a cover for their legendary leader's final resting place.

    10 Aug 2018 3:11 AM IST

    DMK leader M. KarunanidhiNation
    Post Jayalalithaa era, Kingmaker state' has descended into political...

    The Kingmaker' metaphor connoted a substantial speech-act.

    6 Aug 2018 2:02 AM IST

    Dr APJ Abdul Kalam.Nation
    Social Media's seamy side may make Netas' revisit political...

    There has been a radical democratization of communication.

    30 July 2018 2:42 AM IST

    There are some little known interesting facts about each of these leaders resurfacing in Prof Bakthavathsalus essays.Nation
    The Great Leaders' syndrome amid a political churning in Tamil Nadu

    The last of them, though able to recognize people, has been ailing at his Gopalapuram residence for over a year, as the...

    9 July 2018 3:49 AM IST

    KASHMIR, Glimpses of History and the Story of Struggle by Saifuddin Soz Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd., Rs 595.Lifestyle
    Soz's Kashmir solution tinged with philosophical realism

    Saifuddin Soz's lucidly written chronicle and reflections on the Kashmir problem seems to falls into that classical...

    25 Jun 2018 6:28 AM IST

    Maharashtra Maximus, The State, Its People and Politics by Sujata Anandan Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, Rs 395Lifestyle
    Book review: Political turboprops of Maharashtra have TN pointers too

    Such questions in the contemporary Indian political context are as difficult to ask, as they are to answer.

    11 Jun 2018 6:19 AM IST

    CM Edappadi K. Palaniswami given a warm welcome by the Dharmapuri collector S. Malarvizhi on his way to Tirupathi recently (Photo: DC)Nation
    Amid reprieve for AIADMK, Edappadi K Palaniswami weathers storm

    The State Assembly is all set to meet here on May 29 to complete the work of this year's Budget session for voting on...

    21 May 2018 6:32 AM IST

    SURVIVE OR SINK - An Action Agenda for Sanitation, Water, Pollution and Green Finance by Naina Lal Kidwai Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd., Rs 495.Lifestyle
    Book review: From PM's Swachh Bharat Mission to meta-critique of...

    The PM's Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), launched by Mr. Modi on October 2, 2014, for creating a Clean India', is seen as...

    14 May 2018 6:07 AM IST

    Tension grips a Gram Sabha meeting in Salem district on May Day. (Photo: DC)Nation
    Uproar in Gram Sabhas mirror caste hold

    Despite these limitations, the GS in four village panchayats in Thoothukudi district was in the limelight this May Day.

    7 May 2018 6:15 AM IST

    Speaking truth to power, my alternative view by P chidambaram Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd.Lifestyle
    Book review: Chidambaram's brave bid to bring back civility in public...

    He recalls how the spirit of her 20-point programme “has guided all subsequent governments' efforts towards poverty...

    23 April 2018 6:20 AM IST

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    We need multiple religions, multiple ideas of the Hindu: TMK

    Winner of the Ramon Magsaysay Award (2016), he sees art as a vehicle of human empathy and transcendence.

    16 April 2018 6:02 AM IST

    Ready to fire: how india and i survived the isro spy case by Nambi Narayanan with Arun Ram Bloomsbury, New Delhi.Lifestyle
    Book review: Riveting read on how India's rocket science weathered a...

    India's PSLV and later GSLV programmes vindicated this truth, a point the author says was fairly seen only by the CBI.

    9 April 2018 6:26 AM IST

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