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Five months after President's rule was imposed in Tamil Nadu (TN) during the Emergency in 1976, a section of Congress leaders was worried over the return of Brahmin IAS officers in key positions, according to a Kissinger-era WikiLeaks US cable.

Mr Subramaniyan Swamy has recently tweeted that he is going to form a Brahmin force in Tamil Nadu to finish of porkis. Finally Mr Subramaniyan Swamy is taking a position that he is most suited for leading a caste group. I only pity the TN ...

Though he hasn't got any definite plans to land in Tamil cinema soon, young star Dulqar Salman seems to be in the right track to create an impression among Tamilians too. He will be soon acting as a Tamil Brahmin boy for the new film Pattom Pole. To ...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa's on-going vengeful reactions in response to the two photographs produced by Callum Macrae are notable for their irrational and amateurish nature. It is hard to imagine that any leader at any level of ...

As the peoples mobilisation in Tamil Nadu is surging up to question the junta of the Establishments that was ultimately responsible for the genocide and on-going genocide of Eezham Tamils, The Hindu that played a leading part in the media game seems ...

New Delhi/Chennai, Mar. 21 ( ANI ): The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) on Thursday accused the UPA Government of diluting the US-sponsored resolution against Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights ...

Countercurrents.org It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever ...

Looking for a common factor that connects all sections of cosmopolitan Mumbai, from Mukesh Ambani to a man on the street? Batata vada might be a fitting choice. Talks with friends threw up that serve this , and we went in search of them. We-re ...

Bangalore’s B K Mariappa’s hostel is celebrating its centenary year. The hostel, which was started by Mariappa, a young businessman from Nagarthpet, has grown from strength to strength. By way of giving back to society, the old boys of ...