Politics, Culture and Society

"Padichu padichu sonnomey da; conditionsah follow pannungada nu." What Tamil Nadu's School Education Minister Dr. Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi said after the horrific stampede in Karur has now been lifted from its context and repackaged as a spoof dialogue in a new film. The line went so viral that the film's protagonist delivered it in the minister's likeness during promotions to evoke laughter. But that sentence was not spoken as a punchline. It was spoken in the raw aftermath o

When queer rights organisations in Tamil Nadu listed Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss as a "champion of gay rights" for his opposition to Section 377, this piece argued that reducing queer rights to a single legislative position — while ignoring a political career built on anti-Dalit rhetoric and opposition to inter-caste marriages — is not solidarity. It is pinkwashing. There can be no queer liberation without the annihilation of caste. The two struggles are not separate. Treating them