Article 19

   "Of course, the invasion of literature by politics was bound to happen. It must have happened, even if the special problem of totalitarianism had never arisen because we have developed a sort of compunction which our grandfathers did not have, an awareness of the enormous injustice and misery of the world, and a guilt-stricken feeling that one ought to be doing something...

 Aam Aadmi Party and its recent "Deshbhakti" budget The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has been a successful entity in competing with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The party lost the 2019 general elections losing all seven parliamentary seats in New Delhi. Within a year, it gave a strong comeback winning 62 seats out of the total 70 seats in the 2020 assembly elections. This...

It is election season in Tamilnadu and we can see parties promising to spend left, right and centre. The promises range from an arbitrary direct transfer of money to reserving 75% of jobs for locals. These are certified bad ideas. These have been bad ideas for a very long time now. But they still seem to find an audience in power circles. Apart...

It has been a while since we posted anything on this blog. The formerly ‘unemployed friends’- the three writers of the blog- have all got stuff to do now-a-days. Although we try to make time to think and discuss ideas for the blog, there is no denying that we have become lazy and inconsistent. We are not great writers nor great thinkers but we...

Soorarai Pottru was everywhere on the internet. I too, got on the hype train and watched it. Oh yes, the hype is worth it; the film was very entertaining. I’m suda suda writing this right after watching it.Okay, I’ll not beat around the bush and come to why I’m writing this. It is because of one dialogue Surya told Mallaya- ‘you’re a socialite,...

 20th Sept-On Periyar, Periyarism and Tamil Politics This past week marked the 142nd birth anniversary of Periyar E.V Ramaswamy. There is no prize to guess what happened on twitter that day. Some 'abuse' tagged him that he is the curse of Tamilnadu and some said that he is the greatest intellectual to have ever walked on this Tamil land. Obviously neither is true,...