Free bus travel for women Tamil Nadu launches free bus travel for women’s empowerment S. Raja Sethu Durai Tamil Nadu’s scheme facilitating free bus travel for women is laudable as it will boost their work participation rate, but the government must evalu
Tamil Nadu election analysis Tamil Nadu remains an impregnable Dravidian territory in electoral politicsS. Raja Sethu DuraiR. SrinivasanThe 2021 Tamil Nadu Assembly election results demonstrate yet again that the vast majority of the voters are firmly behind the two major Dravidian par
Postal Ballot How the bureaucracy votes mattersS. Raja Sethu Durai R. SrinivasanAny party or coalition that wins in an Assembly election needs to win a majority in both the general vote and the postal vote if it wants to effective
Tamil Nadu Election 2021 Tamil Nadu Assembly election: Crucial role of straight contests S. Raja Sethu Durai R. SrinivasanA study of past elections indicates that the 131 constituencies where the Dravidian majors are facing each other directly hold the key to determining
Dravidian hegemony in Tamil Nadu politics No room for a third front in Tamil NaduR. Srinivasan S. Raja Sethu DuraiAn analysis of the Assembly and parliamentary elections held in Tamil Nadu in the past decade clearly indicates that no entity is likely to pose a ser
GST GST: For a fair share for the StatesR. SrinivasanS. Raja Sethu DuraiIdeal fiscal federalism in a market-driven economy calls for reassigning all the commodity taxes to States and effecting equalisation grants by the Un
Freebie phobia: The BJP’s concerted attack on redistributive transfers Although the BJP is against ‘freebies’ in principle, in practice it has been forced to use a version of concessions and transfers to counter the o
SlideshowLiving on the edgeThey are river people, whose lives ebb and flow with the waters of the Brahmaputra in a timeless rhythm. But now, hydroelectric projects and homogenis
