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Faced with shortage, Tamil Brahmin grooms to scout for brides up north

Faced with a problem of suitable brides, Thamizhnadu Brahmin Association to cast net in UP and Bihar. IMAGE: A still from the Tamil film Meenakshi Sundareshwar. Kindly note that this image has......

Will Nitish Surprise Modi Or Vice Versa After Bihar Poll?

The BJP's MoSha leadership are past masters in encouraging defections from their allies if it helped their party capture the chief minister's chair.In Bihar, they are not sure if JD-U MPs and MLAs......

Will Cash Transfer Win Bihar For Modi?

If women voters are mobilised in big numbers to the voting booths on November 6 and 11 by the Nitish Kumar-led NDA, then it will be quite difficult for the Tejashwi Yadav-led Mahagathbandhan to......

Kunbi Tag For Marathas Triggers Quota Chaos In Maharashtra

The BJP-led government's decision to grant Kunbi status to individuals from the Maratha community has opened a Pandora's box. IMAGE: Manoj Jarange Patil listens to Maharashtra cabinet......

Why Stalin Is Pushing Keeladi Over Indus Valley

'It has the potential to sow seeds of furthering discord when the direction of the discourse is aimed at propagating the perceived supremacy of 'cultural nationalism' from a distant past over the......

An oasis of vegetarian calm

Waking up to the smell of fresh coffee with Suprabhatam hymns echoing MS Subalakshmi's voice are quite common in most Tamil brahmin households. I don't know if I wake up for the coffee, or I have......

Indians divided over Elon Musk's Twitter acquisition

With billionaire Elon Musk closing the deal to buy Twitter and firing the social media firm's four top executives, twitterati in India on Friday seemed divided with many who were vocal against......

Be a khadoos, Urjitbhai

'If you keep inflation low, everything else like messing up after after demonetisation will be forgiven,' says T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The Modi government......

'I'm Really Proud To Be A Brahmin'

'So my question was, 'What is it that you are proud of? What have you achieved? What is your contribution?''He had no answer.' IMAGE: Triptii Dimri and Siddhant Chaturvedi in Dhadak 2. Shazia......

Controversy's Child Kamal Haasan

Kamal has a crisp pen when it comes to writing short and yet powerful film dialogues.But while speaking ex tempore -- and that has been his style -- he looks every bit a confused man, observes N......

Guess Who Said No To Virasat?

IMAGE: Amrish Puri and Anil Kapoor in Virasat. One of the main reasons for Thevar Magan's brilliance is the towering confrontational scenes between Kamal Haasan and his real-life mentor Sivaji......

Kamal Haasan@70: What Makes Him Ulaga Nayagan

'With passage of time, Kamal did move away from the humdrum of commercial cinema, using it only as a peg to launch a new concept or new technology, as no other actor/film-maker has done in Indian......

Will Mani Ratnam's Ponniyin Selvan Be A Blockbuster?

A great story-teller, Mani Ratnam is experimenting with a real-life historical in Ponniyin Selvan, points out N Sathiya Moorthy. IMAGE: Vikram as Aditya Karikalan in Ponniyin Selvan. Now that Mani......