Activists and lawyers say government's gesture sends a chilling signal that the upper caste can get away with murder

While Kamal Haasan's MNM fought the 2019 polls, Rajinikanth may launch his party in 2020. Can they combine to derail the Dravidian parties?

Shravan Krishnan wanted to be a cricketer but an injury scuppered his dreams. An expert snake catcher, he is Chennai's most sought-after man when animals are in distress

Esther Shanthi leads the extra-ordinary life of managing a crematorium in Chennai. Working 12 hours a day for a salary of Rs 12,000 a month, she has been an enigma of sorts

India’s only FM channel for fisherfolk, in Tamil Nadu’s Rameswaram island, is changing lives

Within two years, the YouTube channel has more than 16 lakh subscribers and at least 15 lakh daily viewers. It fetches a monthly revenue of 4 lakh to a group of six Tamil farmers

Edappadi K. Palaniswami is seemingly growing in confidence as AIADMK leader in Tamil Nadu. He is also bridging the gap with the Centre

A post-1947 cosmopolitan Anglo-India boxes with nascent modernity in this engrossing novel

The PM inhabited the veshti’s perfect, protean balance—both quotidian attire and stylish formalwear

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

A distributor feels without a rating system, Tamil heroes will continue to live in a fantasy that all their films are massive hits and will continue to charge a bombshell