Tamil Nadu
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Tamil Islam Is Not a North Indian Story
X.T.M argues that a Tamil Muslim politician waving an LTTE flag is unremarkable, because Islam reached South India through trade and Tamilness outweighs religion. He says North Indian assumptions wrongly…
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Dravidian Progressivism is a Scam
Nachiketa answers X.T.M on Chennai, arguing that the city’s welfare and cleanliness cannot simply be credited to Dravidian progressivism, pointing to Tamil Nadu’s 97 percent caste endogamy rate and describing…
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Chennai Is Not an Accident
X.T.M observes that Chennai retains a non-transactional social reflex, with strangers helping unasked, and attributes it to Tamil language, Dravidian suspicion of centralisation, unstaged religious pluralism and weak chain retail,…
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Open Thread: Rasam, Stray Dogs, and the Battle Over India’s Story
Open thread from Chennai. X.T.M links rasam, Delhi’s stray-dog removal order, Pakistan Cricket Board revenue-sharing and fresh claims on Aurangzeb to a single struggle over who owns the narrative of…
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Rajaji: Our forgotten hero
Reposting a 2018 piece, the author argues that C. Rajagopalachari, Rajaji, is perhaps the most forgotten of India’s founding leaders, and that his free-market ideas and Swatantra Party remain relevant…
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West Africa’s bitter chocolate harvest is a sweet deal for farmers in south India
A teaser for a ThePlate.in story on cocoa farmers in Tamil Nadu asking whether they can benefit as global cocoa prices more than triple because of West African crop failures,…
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A Conversation on Politics in Tamil Nadu
Maneesh Taneja and Omar Ali talk to K Jayaraman about Tamil Nadu politics, from the origin of the Dravidian movement and its rise as a political force to the decline…
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Thuglaq turns 54 and The Forgotten art of Dialectic!
A reader reports from the 54th annual Thuglak meeting on Pongal day, tracing how Cho Ramaswamy’s political magazine has changed under S. Gurumurthy, with less humour and a shift to…
