G.C. Shekhar

Tamil Nadu chief minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami's 13-day tour of UK, US and UAE is being seen as a signature of the man's increasing confidence as a leader ahead of the 2021 Assembly elections

Jayalalitha's close friend Sasikala, now in jail, is building her political redemption around the famous Poes Garden bungalow that is now confiscated by the court

The urgency in which some leaders have attempted to exploit the Kashmir issue is clearly aimed at negating any positives the BJP may have gained in Tamil Nadu

Aththi Varadhar is a six-feet tall idol of Lord Mahavishnu. Carved from the wood of fig tree, the idol is taken out once in 40 years for public viewing for just 48 days

A fusion of passion and good taste, MadRasana is finding new ways to take Carnatic music to the uninitiated

From poor farmers to construction giants, the limbo over Amaravati as a dream city in the Jagan Reddy regime has messed up lives and livelihood

How some residents in Chennai are successfully conserving water.

The BJP has more than a foothold in Karnataka but in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala, the party's Hindutva narrative may need to change

Amaravati was ex-Andhra CM Chandrababu Naidu's ambitious project. Rs 45,000 crore has already been spent on building the mega city but Jagan Reddy has put a spanner in the works

For a nation used to seeing him in his trademark Modi jacket, this was Modi in a typical Tamil avatar.

The international lender World Bank’s decision could affect future finances for the Amaravati project.

The worst water crisis in more than two decades has Chennai totally parched.

Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jaganmohan Reddy (YSJR) has created a record of sorts by swearing in as many as five Deputy Chief Ministers (Dy CMs) in the 25-member Cabinet, which was unheard of in independent India’s history.

Two former editors who are also directors on the board of The Hindu engage in a spat over a story on onions and garlic.

Thursday’s by-polls to 18 Assembly seats will decide the fate of the Edappadi K. Palaniswami government.

During a raid on the associates of DMK Treasurer Durai Murugan, IT officials were shocked to find Rs. 200 notes packed in plastic covers with names of the wards of an assembly segment marked on them.

Many well-heeled candidates in Tamil Nadu are offering expensive gifts and cash prize to paty workers to extract the maximum effort and energy from them in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

For both leaders it will be their first direct election. Kanimozhi, who has been elected twice to the Rajya Sabha, has been grooming the constituency, spending a large portion of her MPLAD funds there.

Both the manifestos appear to be mere formalities in keeping with the competitive politics of the DMK and AIADMK.