Ilangovan Rajasekaran

1 day ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Jinoy Jose P |Ilangovan Rajasekaran |Vaishna Roy

Dear reader,Did you know that the very idea of “whistleblowing” had to wait hundreds of years to get a decent name? IMHO, this fact might be the most perfect metaphor for how society has historically treated those brave enough to speak truth to power. For centuries, these moral daredevils were saddled with sorry-sounding terms like snitch, turncoat, stool pigeon, leaker, tipster, dissenter, defector, gadfly, muckraker, canary, bell-ringer, Cassandra (really?), rat, and more.

2 weeks ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Ilangovan Rajasekaran |Divya Gandhi |Vaishna Roy

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has chosen one of its most seasoned leaders in Kerala, Mariam Alexander Baby, as its new General Secretary. The announcement came at the party’s 24th Congress, which concluded on April 6 in Madurai, Tamil Nadu. The election followed the untimely demise of Sitaram Yechury. Until a new leader was chosen, a senior Politburo member and former General Secretary, Prakash Karat, was tasked with coordinating party affairs.

Nov 8, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Ilangovan Rajasekaran |Zakia Soman |Muqtedar Khan |Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed

When the Tamil film star “Thalapathy” Vijay, or General Vijay as his fans fondly call him, stepped on to the podium on October 27 to deliver a 45-minute speech, he was greeted by roars and applause in a charged and theatrical event that opened yet another exciting chapter in a State where politics and cinema have been conjoined twins since the 1950s.

Oct 28, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Ilangovan Rajasekaran |Peter Ronald deSouza |Vaishna Roy

Tamil Nadu is currently a “boom State”, being a leading manufacturing hub and a major exporter of electronic goods in the country. The government claims that it has brought Rs.10 lakh crore worth of investments in the past three years to generate 31 lakh jobs. Another Rs.8,000 crore of investments are in the pipeline after Chief Minister M.K. Stalin’s recent visit to the US.

Oct 28, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Ilangovan Rajasekaran |Peter Ronald deSouza |Vaishna Roy

When the workers of the Samsung Electronics unit in Sriperumbudur, 40 km from Chennai, went on strike for better wages and improved conditions on September 9, little did they realise that their struggle would evolve into a watershed moment in Tamil Nadu’s labour movement in the post-liberalisation era. When it finally ended on October 16, it had lasted for 38 days, becoming the longest industrial unrest in recent times.