Ts Sudhir
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Opinion | Tamil Nadu's Gen Z Turn May Be Here, Thanks To Vijay
The manner in which Vijay and his TVK have approached this election has made age an important dynamic in a state whose presiding deities at election time have always been caste and cash.
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Opinion | Mudslinging Starts As AIADMK And DMK Use Karunanidhi In Campaign Rhetoric
Muthuvel Karunanidhi is back. Seven and a half years after he passed away, the former chief minister is now the subject of heated barbs between his son MK Stalin and his political rival, AIADMK supremo Edappadi Palaniswami.
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Opinion | In Tamil Nadu, Vijay Attempts A Hostile Takeover Of AIADMK's Very Soul
It is increasingly clear that the message being driven home is that Vijay is the natural political successor to Anna and MGR.
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Opinion | Stalin And Vijay : Tactical Support vs Tactical Silence
Streetsmart, thinking, three steps ahead, reading the mind of the opponent, speaking your mind. That's Vijay, the actor. In his political avatar, however, he has been conspicuous by his silence, especially when it comes to the Jana Nayagan row.
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Opinion | What Vijay's First Rally In Tamil Nadu Post-Karur Stampede Really Means
Mission Erode was bulk-order political messaging, aided suitably by geography.
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Telangana march on Thursday hits roadblock
The Jasmine Revolution's effect is not limited to large parts of the Arab world. Pro-Telangana parties, inspired by the protests in Egypt that forced the exit of Hosni Mubarak, had called for their own march of millions in Hyderabad on Thursday. The aim is to pressure the government to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh and create a new Telangana state.Howev...
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Congress not divided by Telangana issue, says Kiran Reddy
Ahead of T-day, Chandrababu Naidu's Telugu Desam Party (TDP) has said it will skip Home Minister P Chidambaram's meeting tomorrow. The TDP is the latest entrant in the boycott bandwagon. The Telangana Rashtra Samiti or TRS, headed by K Chandrasekhar Rao who fronted the campaign for a new state, is boycotting the meeting. So is the BJP. (Watc...
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Now, Naidu's TDP likely to skip Jan 6 meeting
And then there were five. After the TRS and the BJP, it's the TDP that's backing out of the meeting of eight political parties called by Home Minister P Chidambaram on January 6 to go over the Telangana report.The meeting is meant to examine the report prepared by the Srikrishna Committee on whether a new state of Telangana should be created.K Chan...
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Telangana report: Buses hope to not bear the brunt
The Central government has sent security forces to help keep the peace in Andhra Pradesh as the state gears up for the verdict on whether it will be bifurcated. But those in charge of Andhra Pradesh's public buses aren't taking any chances. Over the last year, buses were targeted in demonstrations both for and against the creation of a new Te...
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Telangana: Congress fast works, cases against students dropped
Mission accomplished after 36 hours of a hunger strike for the 11 Congress MPs from Telangana who had taken on their own government in Andhra Pradesh.Ceding to the pressure, the government announced that all 1600 cases against students who protested either for or against a new Telangana state have been dropped.Under considerable pressure, the gover...
