All stories by N SATHIYA MOORTHY
Sengol And The BJP's Election 2024 Plan
Rediff.com6 Jun 2023The BJP seems wanting to return to a 'Tamil Hindutva' agenda for elections in Tamil Nadu, explains N Sathiya Moorthy.
AIADMK-BJP Snipe At Each Other
Rediff.com26 May 2023The BJP and the AIADMK are unable to sort out ideological differences, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
Jallikattu Verdict A Victory For Tamil Youth Power
Rediff.com22 May 2023They just wanted their angst noticed, and as a symbol of recognition, Jallikattu, restored without the annual ritual of court cases and adjournments, explains N Sathya Moorthy.
How Karnataka Results Will Impact Tamil Nadu Politics
Rediff.com17 May 2023The DMK leadership may now have to deal with a demand for more seats from its Congress ally in the Lok Sabha polls, predicts N Sathiya Moorthy.
Why Was TN's Finance Minister Removed?
Rediff.com11 May 2023Palanivel Thiaga Rajan was on the hit-list, not because the chief minister was unhappy with his performance, but because there were constant complaints from other ministers that he was sitting on their files far too long, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
Congress Can't Afford To Lose Karnataka Poll
Rediff.com8 May 2023The new chief minister, if from the Congress, will have little or no time for political administration, to ensure that he does not lose the voter's goodwill even before the Lok Sabha polls. He can count only on one thing. That the BJP may not want to upset him too early lest an early failure should become an added problem for the party in all the polls to follow, predicts N Sathiya Moorthy.
PS:2: So Who Killed Aditha Karikalan?
Rediff.com28 Apr 2023The question 'Who was/were behind Aditha Karikalan's killing?' will continue to remain a historic mystery despite Mani Ratnam setting out to unravel it in his own way, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
Is Stalin Slipping Up In A Poll Year?
Rediff.com28 Apr 2023ndependent of the political fallout, which Stalin has sought to arrest through the withdrawal of the measures as fast as they were introduced, there are concerns about the way those decisions came to be taken, without adequate application of mind, not in official terms but in political and electoral contexts, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
Will Annamalai's 'DMK Files' Help BJP?
Rediff.com17 Apr 2023Will Annamalai's attacks on the DMK revert the anti-BJP feeling in Tamil Nadu, asks N Sathiya Moorthy.
What Googly Will Modi Bowl in 2024?
Rediff.com6 Apr 2023It is not unlikely that ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, the BJP government comes up with more imaginative schemes aimed at constituency-building. The party under Modi's leadership has a more modern thinking in such matters unlike its rivals, which are still steeped only in ideology, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
Will EPS Now Take On The BJP?
Rediff.com29 Mar 2023The EPS camp believes that the BJP was already arm-twisting the AIADMK into conceding more seats in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections 'than they deserve' observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
Rahul Could Become Central to Anti-BJP Politics
Rediff.com27 Mar 2023Anti-Congress regional parties may have felt the possible impact of Rahul's South-North yatra, pending a second East-West padayatra, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
What Tamil Nadu Does Today, India May Do Tomorrow
Rediff.com23 Mar 2023Tamil Nadu's latest budget offers path-breaking initiatives and major boost for social infrastructure, which other state governments are sure to follow in the coming years, predicts N Sathiya Moorthy.
Is BJP Getting It Wrong In Tamil Nadu?
Rediff.com17 Mar 2023The AIADMK is convinced that the BJP will remain an electoral burden for a long time to come, beginning the Lok Sabha polls next year, reveals N Sathiya Moorthy.
An Indian American in the White House?
Rediff.com13 Mar 2023What would an Indian American president of the US look like, sound like and act like, especially on issues and policies pertaining to his or her 'mother-land'?, asks N Sathiya Moorthy.
Who Stoked Migrant Labour 'Exodus' From Tamil Nadu?
Rediff.com6 Mar 2023Unless controlled and contained, given the untested belief that the north Indian labour support and follow the Hindutva kind of political ideology, there is a potential in terms of ideological clashes with their Dravidian brethren in the local neighbourhoods, and it all escalating into violence, especially during election time, predicts N Sathiya Moorthy.
What Erode Win Means For Stalin's Politics
Rediff.com2 Mar 2023For now, the DMK can be expected to sound the bugle for Opposition unity at the national level, predicts N Sathiya Moorthy.
Will Supreme Court verdict help EPS win by-election?
Rediff.com23 Feb 2023Though another 75 candidates are in the fray, the Elangovan-Thennaruasu fight has become a prestige battle for the DMK and AIADMK, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
Why TN Has Challenged NEET in Supreme Court
Rediff.com22 Feb 2023As the petition points out, new medical colleges entail adjunct government hospitals, thus making specialised medical care that much more accessible to the vast majority of population that otherwise could not afford high-cost medical care in the private sector, N Sathiya Moorthy points out.
What if LTTE's Prabhakaran were alive...
Rediff.com14 Feb 2023The Indian authorities have to reconfirm that Prabhakaran is dead. It may require seeking assistance from Interpol and also involve the re-opening of the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, and more so, the investigations, formally or otherwise, asserts N Sathiya Moorthy.