Editor's Note Stand up & speak outR. Vijaya SankarThis is the culmination of a century-old project founded on the concept of cultural nationalism, as opposed to the inclusive territorial nationalism p
Editor's Note Celebrating Satyajit RayR. Vijaya Sankar That was Andrew Robinson, the biographer-turned-friend of Ray, and his message came as a force that gave the initial momentum to the special i
Editor's Note The nation wants to know R. Vijaya Sankar 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
Editor's Note I love the way you lie R. Vijaya SankarDharumi, an impoverished and not-so-gifted poet, goes to the Meenakshi Amman Temple and soliloquises, blaming himself for his inability to write a ver
Editorial RULE OF FAITH R. VIJAYA SANKAREmbedded at the core of the world outlook of these movements were the French Revolution’s ideals of liberty, fraternity and equality—values that c
Editor’s Note The way forward R. Vijaya SankarThe 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
Editor's Note Sound and fury R. Vijaya Sankar For the poor and downtrodden sections, it was demonetisation, an aborted land acquisition law, labour law reforms, cuts in social sector spend
Karunanidhi and Emergency An island of democracy R. Vijaya Sankar 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
Tribute Editor's NoteR. Vijaya Sankar 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
Periyar and Socialism Self-respect and socialismR. Vijaya SankarThe choice Periyar made then changed the course of history and politics in Tamil Nadu.
End of Exile Train to PetrogradR. Vijaya SankarThe journey that took Lenin and other revolutionaries from Zurich to the Finland Station in Petrograd and changed the history of Russia and the world
The Marina momentILANGOVAN RAJASEKARANR. VIJAYA SANKARThe 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
Are Hindi films problematising history? After Padmaavat, the Hindu historical tasted blood and sharpened its fangs, but the recent Samrat Prithviraj is a weak offspring of the genre, neither
SlideshowPostcards from Khasi hillsImages that mix politics, history and discomfort to document how the Khasi people made Christianity, a “foreign faith”, their own.
