This week, the original plan of mine was to write about the all-important local body elections in Chennai. But it has been put on hold by the Madras High Court. No worries, I still have the option to focus on another election that looks actually thara local: The one between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Right off the bat, it… Read more →
A non-nonsense Q&A on Triple Talaq and Uniform Civil Code Chennai, Oct 19: Triple Talaq and the Uniform Civil Code are making controversial headlines again. As with most matters, the general public is uninformed on these too because most of the time it is getting its information from the wrong sources — internet, WhatsApp forwards and news outlets that are… Read more →
The Tamil film Remo, starring Sivakarthikeyan — who has emerged to be an unlikely star in his own right in the last two-three years, has run into a couple of controversies, which have hit the movie very badly and he is now urgently forced to look for an alternative career. Of course, I am kidding only. As ever, the controversies… Read more →
*Plus: Fascinating history of Nobel, including literature prize for Zambian telephone directory Chennai, Oct 12: With all but the Nobel prize for literature declared for 2016, there is an understandable buzz among the writing community. And the odds on favourite to walk away with this year’s literature prize, according to the betting company Ladbrokes, is “yet another obscure writer from… Read more →
How do kolu celebrations pan out in our house? We decorate and arrange the idols, dolls and sundry other figurines in traditional kolu formation and offer sundal to the guests, who, if they are women, sing traditional songs, and if they are men, involve themselves in the even more traditional activity of buttonholing me on Hillary Clinton or Sivakarthikeyan or… Read more →
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