Tamil Nadu has more temples than any other state in India, but has refused to endorse a single religion supremacy.
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A. S. Panneerselvan is the director general of the Chennai institute of journalism. He has more than four decades of experience in journalism
The unique model of Tamil Nadu is the result of an inclusive, three-tiered structure: effective interventions, promoting social cohesion and establishing institutional mechanism to confront the divisive forces.
Before his induction to the state cabinet as Minister for Industries in 2023, Dr. T.R.B. Rajaa was a member of the State Planning Commission. He has been representing Mannarkudi Assembly constituency continuously since his electoral debut in 2011. He won comfortably from the same seat in 2016 and 2021. Dr. Rajaa who has a doctorate in Counselling Psychology is committed to making Tamil Nadu the manufacturing hub of India. Excerpts from an exclusive interview with A S Panneerselvan
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