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Stand up & speak out

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Celebrating Satyajit Ray

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The nation wants to know

Over a century after Rabindranath Tagore wrote these lines in a letter to his friend, the truth of his profound statement strikes us in the fa

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I love the way you lie

Dharumi, an impoverished and not-so-gifted poet, goes to the Meenakshi Amman Temple and soliloquises, blaming himself for his inability to write a ver

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The Supreme Court of India.

RULE OF FAITH

Embedded at the core of the world outlook of these movements were the French Revolution’s ideals of liberty, fraternity and equality—values that could

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The way forward

The BJP is God's Own Party. Rain gods, less charitable to a vast number of farmers across India, were present in full strength in New Delhi on May 23

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Sound and fury

For the poor and downtrodden sections, it was demonetisation, an aborted land acquisition law, labour law reforms, cuts in social sector spend

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December 26, 1973: At his residence in Madras with Jayaprakash Narayan, who launched the movement for Total Revolution.

An island of democracy

Not only did Karunanidhi lead the anti-Emergency struggle from the front but he also played a crucial role in forging a political front against the I

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Editor's Note

For the godless Dravidian movement, which used to the hilt the print medium and theatre as vehicles of its ideas in its pre-Independence phase

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Self-respect and socialism

The choice Periyar made then changed the course of history and politics in Tamil Nadu.

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Train to Petrograd

The journey that took Lenin and other revolutionaries from Zurich to the Finland Station in Petrograd and changed the history of Russia and the world

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Chennai: Youngsters and students participate in a protest to lift the ban on Jallikattu and impose ban on PETA, at Kamarajar Salai, Marina Beach in Chennai on Friday. PTI Photo by R Senthil Kumar (PTI1_20_2017_000298A)

The Marina moment

The jallikattu ban was only a trigger for the protest around Pongal on Chennai's Marina beach. Lakhs of people, most of them youths, gathered spontane

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