Tamil Nadu - Himal Southasian (Page 3)

Victimising rivers of the south

Even as the Indian Ministry of Water Resources has been maintaining that it is inching closer and closer to implementing the first of the proposed 30 links under the grand

By Sudhirendar Sharma

/ 1 Nov 2003

Fishing for trouble?

The burgeoning problems of the fisher people of Tamil Nadu do not catch the ears of the powerful, either in the state or the centre. Madras seems to be far

By Syed Ali Mujtaba

/ 1 Oct 2003

A stroll in the (reassembled) countryside

India lives in its villages, so people say, though the headfirst rush towards urban centres of recent decades has been uprooting the rural landscape. An ongoing migration to cities continues

By Syed Ali Mujtaba

/ 1 May 2003

‘Holy’ cow and ‘unholy’ dalit

The bovine becomes divine, the cow becomes 'mother', the untouchables get dehumanised

By S Anand

/ 1 Nov 2002

“Slicing India”: New perspectives on India since 1947

If we had a clearer picture of how India changed after independence, we might have a better sense of where it is going today. But how to encompass half a century's history of hundreds of millions of people? Like a geologist analysing cross-sections of strata to understand how rock was formed and wha

By Robin Jeffrey

/ 1 Jun 2002

People bathing at the river against a sunset backdrop.

“NO PARTY DOMINANT”: India’s New Political System

As the recent round of elections to the legislative assemblies of four states in India reconfirm the decline of the dominant-party system, it is time to reflect on its implications

By Robin Jeffrey

/ 1 Mar 2002

MONSOON POLITICAL REVIEW

Politics in South Asia, as the summer rains end, presents a dismal picture of turmoil. In Bangladesh, impending general election has unleashed a ferocious struggle between the two main political

By The Editors

/ 1 Sep 2001

Opening old wounds

A Decade of Confrontation: Sri Lanka and India in the 1980s by John Gooneratne Stamford Lake Publication Sri Lanka, 2000 Sri Lanka's side of the story on the

By Ashok K. Mehta

/ 1 Nov 2000

New moon Outlaw

Is he a poacher, smuggler, Robin Hood, plain thug, or a Tamil politician-in-the-making? Will the real Veerappan please emerge out of the jungle? It has been a distinguished story of

By Deepak Kumar Kacholia

/ 1 Sep 2000

The Dravidian School of Tamil Cinema

Politics and cinema are intertwined in Tamil Nadu, where film stars have gone beyond the script, influencing regional and national politics

By DBS Jeyaraj

/ 6 Jul 2000

The Tiger’s trap

In the last 15 years of the Tamil-Sinhala conflict, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam have been prisoners of their militarised, brutalised and violence-driven pursuit for a separate homeland. But

By Shastri Ramachandran

/ 1 Jun 2000

Tamil Nadu. Taamil Eelam and Greater Eelam

South Asian´s longest war in Sri Lanka escalated over the course of May to a point where the military balance in the island´s north has shifted dramatically in

By DBS Jeyaraj

/ 1 Jun 2000