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When Politics Becomes Its Own Evidence
Tamil Nadu’s Assembly has recently offered something more revealing than a television shouting match. It has shown us what happens when allegations, evidence, history and political memory all enter the same room and nobody quite agrees on who should speak first. The latest TVK-DMK confrontation over corruption allegations is therefore about much more than corruption. Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay used the Assembly to accuse the previous DMK regime of corruption, referring to
C.S. Krishnamurthy
Sep 153 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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