For over half a century, Tamil Nadu’s politics rested on a comforting certainty that while power would alternate, it would never escape the gravitational pull of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. This binary was treated akin to a law of nature. Now, in a single election, Vijay and his Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) have rewritten the old grammar of Dravidian politics that has painstakingly been constructed since 1967. Vijay has di