Tamil Nadu - Himal Southasian (Page 3)

The fourth Eelam war

With the West's efforts at peacemaking having suddenly been stymied by the return to war, the focus shifts to New Delhi. How will it respond, even as Tamil Nadu turns restive?

By A S Panneerselvan

/ 1 Jul 2006

Tamil Nadu’s second tsunami

In the days after the 26 December tsunami swept up the Tamil Nadu coast, people united for the sheer common fortune of having survived. Shooing away the vultures, they came

By Sandesh Bhandare

/ 26 Sep 2005

Impressions from the Devastation

The authorities and citizens of Sri Lanka's northeast and the Indian state of Tamil Nadu reacted differently when the tsunami struck.

By Dagmar Hellmann-Rajanayagam

/ 1 Sep 2005

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

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

By Deepak Kumar Kacholia

/ 1 Sep 2000