Jaya Menon

The past is a different island

On Sunday, a sullen Tamil Nadu chief minister, M. Karunanidhi, used the dais at a private wedding...

Fishermen up in arms against Lankan Navy’s move to lay sea mines

Fishermen in Rameswaram, the coastal pilgrim town in south Tamil Nadu, have threatened to go on a ‘stop work’...

A deep red Taj Mahal, with love

This Valentine’s Day, another Taj Mahal will set a few million hearts across the world aflutter.

TN leaders in moral police garb see red on actor’s skirt

After Khushboo, Sushmita Sen, Shilpa Shetty and Reema Sen, Tamil Nadu’s moral/political activists...

Amma hosts Modi, sets table for a new political course

By all accounts, it was a meal fit for the kings. Beginning with the traditional chakkara...

Near-miss at Nellai

Few among the thousands of DMK cadres, leaving the gala Stalin show at Nellai in south Tamil Nadu...

Infant’s death: panchayat slaps fine on activists for reporting barbaric custom

Barely a few days after a female baby died due to septicemia and shock after she was pierced with searing hot needles around her navel...

Tsunami-hit fishermen live in fear of n-plant

The sound of a rough, menacing sea worries Thasan Gnanprakasam the least these days.

Nalini, Rajiv murder accused, now Master’s in Computers

Nalini, “accused no. 1” in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, will soon be an MCA...

Stalin’s show: Nellai conference has the makings of a coronation ceremony

Never before has a DMK show been so lavish. In fact, preparations for the state-level youth wing conference scheduled for December 15 and 16 at Tirune

Malaysia could be another Lanka: Hindraf leader

The founder leader of Hindraf (Hindu Rights Action Force), spearheading an anti-discrimination agitation in Kuala Lumpur...

Hung from a tree in a bag, HIV kid finds hope

The story of a child from the remote Perur hamlet in Tamil Nadu shows that the battle to create awareness and empathy about the disease has a long way

Rajiv case convicts seek visa for girl

Murugan, Nalini on indefinite fast, want daughter to come and study in India