Water’s Woes

My name is water. The need to introduce myself are many and in the current context in Chennai, most urgent.

Adieu, actor!

Lord Brahma does not make ‘ em any more. The Creator, apparently, exhausted all his energies and imagination in creating Sivaji Ganesan, who, to put it very simply, will remain the only one of his kind.

God of all things

Counting the roadside idols on Pillayar Chathurthi (PC) day … night, rather, has always been a favourite pastime of mine, writes TR Jawahar in his PointBlank column

An appeal to honourable CM Stalin

DMK MP and former Minister A Raja has given us an impression that diseases like HIV and leprosy carry social stigma while he made a remark about Sanatana Dharma. Hope CM Stalin would undo the damage caused by his remarks, writes TR Jawahar

As the Centre withers away

India’s federal structure provides for power to the Central Government for some major decisions and autonomy for States on many others.

Didi’s knockout punch: All fall down!

This was really the mother of all polls, or rather, didi of all polls. As it turned out, it became didi’s polls, both before and after and all through.

Where is the FM?

Last year same time, when Covid was in its nascent stage and the nation under lockdown, the Government pompously announced a slew of economic measures of which only a few were of any worth to the people.

Where dying is a way of life

The burning fires singed my eyes and face. The billowing smoke shut out visibility allowing just blurred windows in instalments.

Unmasking TN’s troubles

Delhi choking; Maharashtra gasping; UP breathless. Indeed, we viewers of national media are getting drowned by such news ceaselessly through the day.