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Vijay-AIADMK pact takes Annamalai’s wicket
New Delhi: The emergence of C Joseph Vijay as Tamil Nadu’s Chief Minister has intensified debate over the political realignments that preceded the 2026 Assembly elections, with many observers linking his rise to the political marginalisation and eventual exit of former BJP state president K. Annamalai. According to political commentators, Annamalai had increasingly come to view Tamil Nadu’s politics as requiring a new alternative focused on clean governance and nationalism. T
Akhilesh Sinha
Jun 32 min read
Dravidian Crossroads
Who truly represents the Dravidian legacy today? Can Tamil Nadu’s two towering political rivals ever bury decades of hostility? Has the rise of new political forces exposed the fatigue within both the DMK and AIADMK?Would a united Dravidian front preserve Tamil identity or destroy the very opposition culture that shaped the State? And if the two parties continue to weaken separately, could national parties gradually fill the vacuum? These questions have begun echoing acros
C.S. Krishnamurthy
May 93 min read
Vijay Whistles Beyond the Dravidian Divide
The stunning victory of Vijay’s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (), contesting its first Assembly election and emerging as the single-largest party with 108 seats, has fundamentally altered the grammar of the state politics. For the first time since 1967, neither the DMK nor the AIADMK stands at the centre of power with unquestioned authority. A political order that survived ideological battles, personality cults, corruption scandals, coalition compulsions and generational transitio
C.S. Krishnamurthy
May 63 min read
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