Stalin Draws Up Line Of DMK Succession

What does Udhayanidhi's induction as minister mean?For the DMK, it indicates the future course, direction and leadership.It is continuity with change, and change with continuity, points out N......

Kamal Haasan launches party, names it 'Makkal Needhi Maiam'

Amid fanfare, with Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in attendance, actor Kamal Haasan on Wednesday launched his political party, christening it “Makkal Needhi Maiam,” and......

Have we really stepped out from the old to the new?

I looked at the array of twenty-somethings sitting around our office conference table and tried hard not to show the astonishment I felt within. These computer science and business graduates from......

It's time to overhaul cops and the system: HRW

Government of India should take steps to overhaul the policing system, which facilitated and at times encouraged human rights violations, a report by the Human Rights Watch, released on Tuesday,......

Manorathangal Review: Anatomy of A Visionary Mindscape

Through Manorathangal, M T Vasudevan Nair makes himself available to a whole new generation of uninitiated viewers, who can familiarise themselves with his rich body of work and hope to learn a......

Oru Black and White Kudumbam loses the plot

Actors in Malayalam cinema do not shy away from self deprecatory humour about their physique or mannerisms. Sreenivasan is the best example of this followed by Kalabhavan Mani, who in his latest......

Mohanlal: An Emperor Defeated By Love

'Once Mohanlal's ever-swelling entourage grasped his enormous worth, once it realized that the innate Mohanlal appeal could be profited from, it set about to exploit, to make uproars, to create the......

It's Jayasurya's show all the way this Onam

An Onam without any films of Mohanlal and Mammootty is like an Onam without a proper Onasadya. But that is how this year's Onam is going to be like. For the first time, a Jayaram film (Kana......

The F1 2009 report card, Vol 1

Pull up your seats, F1 fans, the season class is well under way. With a third of the F1 season already wrapped up in white and neon green, here are a few facts we can glean from this insanely......