Sometimes driven by personal agenda or social issues like corruption, maverick Tamil leaders chew away crucial votes making bipolar contests a humdinger
After MGR made an announcement in 1950s, Mani Ratnam has finally assembled a team to make a film out of RA Krishnamurthy's famous book that has five volumes and about 2,400 pages!
Theatre and films plays a big role in Tamil politics. MGR was a crowd-puller and Jayalalitha was a gamechanger. Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan are slowly making their political ambitions clear
Indian politics remain a male dominated domain. So much so that women candidates aspiring to be an MP or MLA have to endure sexist comments and even fend off perverted men during their campaign trail
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.
While the PMK got seven Lok Sabha seats, the BJP was allotted five. Vijayakanth’s DMDK is expected to join the front soon. The AIADMK will contest 21 Lok Sabha seats.
The threats and vile comments against four Carnatic singers have prompted noted musician T.M. Krishna to announce that he would be releasing one Carnatic song every month on Jesus or Allah.
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