Tamil Nadu

“I write with the same hands that carried shit”: Reading Pandiyakannan’s ‘Salavaan’

The Tamil writer Pandiyakannan, the first novelist from the Kuravar community, offers an intimate portrait of the lives of manual scavengers

| May 25, 2023

Meena Kandasamy’s feminist intervention on the Tirukkural

The unparalleled Tamil classic’s third part, covering desire, was long overlooked, but Kandasamy’s new translation looks precisely at it to challenge convention

| Apr 11, 2023

Canadian-Tamil comedian Sunthar V navigates queerness and Tamil identity

Sunthar V, founder of the Tamil Comedy Club in central London, attempts to push social boundaries with his comedy in Chennai

| Mar 27, 2023

Karunanidhi and the long shadow of Sri lanka

Between Dravidian politics of Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka's Tamil nationalism.

| May 28, 2020

We can only look forward…

...when we no longer have to look back.

| Apr 01, 2010

Knitwear’s race to the bottom

Tripur, in Tamil Nadu has become a glowing- and scalding example of India's plunge into globalised development.

| Feb 01, 2008

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