Lakshmana Venkat Kuchi

CONNECTING RURAL INDIA WITH TAP WATER

January 4, 2022

Getting villagers to help themselves bring tapped water supply to their homes across the country–from the Northeast to Southernmost tip in Kanyakumari is a surmountable challenge if only those engaged in goading them to design, build, own and operate water supply systems are successful. That is if they are able...

A THRONE OF THORNS AWAITS THALAPATHI STALIN IN TAMIL NADU

May 3, 2021

For DMK and its president M.K. Stalin, 2 May has been the super Sunday he has been waiting for. The longest-serving understudy to his father and DMK patriarch M. Karunanidhi for nearly five decades, Thalapathi as he is fondly called by his supporters and cadres looked set to form the...

A resurgent DMK looks set to wrest Tamil Nadu

March 12, 2021

As the Southern fort of the Dravidian forces readies to host a battle royale for the April 6 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, the two formations—the ruling AIADMK and the challenger in a resurgent DMK—have finalised their alliances and are accelerating electioneering, from candidate selection to campaigning. Heating up the political...

Why film stars no longer twinkle in Tamil politics

February 17, 2021

Are the days of a film superstar smashing the ‘baddies’ of the political world in an electoral battle—even in the film crazed state of Tamil Nadu—over? And, for that matter, in the neighbouring Andhra Pradesh, which hosted its silver screen idol N.T. Rama Rao as Chief Minister? Rajinikanth perhaps realised...