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    MGR- A LIFE by R. KANNAN Published in Penguin Books by Penguin Random House India, 2017.Lifestyle
    Book review: Pulling MGR out from destiny's red and black boxes

    The author, in fact, has quite extensively dwelt on the highs and lows of the MGR administration.

    3 July 2017 12:50 AM

    M G RamachandranNation
    MGR memories to flood birth centenary year

    Reflections on Political Trends.

    25 Jun 2017 8:48 PM

    Finance Minister Arun JaitleyBusiness
    TNGST from Rajaji to Arun Jaitley, a sea change in state finances

    Under the new GST, as ushered in by the Central government, all indirect taxes will be subsumed under it.

    19 Jun 2017 12:53 AM

    Prof. Daya KrishnaLifestyle
    Philosophy moderates dynamics of religions

    Best perspective on Ramanuja has come from Mumbai's Sri Krishna Sabha.

    11 Jun 2017 10:02 PM

    Era SezhiyanNation
    Dravidian movement loses its Polly Umrigar

    Sezhiyan's extraordinarily long innings in Parliament was as brilliant as Polly Umrigar's run getting.

    8 Jun 2017 12:45 AM

    When I hit you: Or, a portrait of the writer as a young wife by Meena Kandasamy, published by Atlantic Books, London, 2017Lifestyle
    Book review: Brilliant self portrait makes a bold narrative

    The power of brevity and silent intonation of these words, as Meena chronicles them in that order, speak for themselves.

    29 May 2017 8:45 PM

    A carpet of messages of support and floral tributes to the victims of the Manchester attack lie in St Anns Square in Manchester on Saturday. ( Photo: AFP)Nation
    Why Humanism needs more ambassadors now

    Today's highly technological and complex world has enough ideological - religious and political “well(s) of orthodoxy.

    29 May 2017 1:21 AM

    The Queen by Anita Sivakumaran Juggernaut Books, New Delhi, 2017Lifestyle
    Book review: Allegorical strokes on life and times of former Chief...

    The main characters weaved into this narrative by the author have too obvious referents in recent memory to be termed as...

    22 May 2017 1:19 AM

    THE HUNT FOR RAMAS BOW by Suhail Mathur Om Books International Noida, 2017Lifestyle
    Book review: New ways of looking at old texts, a charm and a sting

    Author Suhail Mathur's latest book offering, The Hunt for Rama's Bow' fiction that is laced with history, Hindu...

    14 May 2017 8:21 PM

    Hamid Ansari and M KarunanidhiNation
    Tamil Nadu: Journals that took forward the Dravidian movement's legacy

    The focus was on Kudiyarasu' and how it “spread the message of social justice in all its aspectsâ€.

    7 May 2017 11:02 PM

    “The idea of starting the journal, Kudiyarasu came to Periyar when he was in the Coimbatore jail along with his friend Thangaperumal, in 1922, but the idea materialised only on May 2, 1925,†Dr S. Panneerselvam says in his detailed study.Nation
    How Dravidian movement staved off majoritarian politics

    Quoting Periyar, Prof. Pannerselvam says, “social reform is not such an easy game as politics. -"

    30 April 2017 10:47 PM

    Jayalalithaa had been successful in taking forward the social compact that the DMK and AIADMK had enabled for Tamil Nadus advancement in the post-1967 decades after Congress lost power.Nation
    AIADMK unity efforts: Narrative needs more than thermocol shields

    These and others testify to how she gave a considerable part of her life to the State's politics and development.

    24 April 2017 1:06 AM

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