New politics with old issues: DMK re-energised at 71

A few years ago, it appeared that the DMK had outlived its utility. The issues that propelled its growth in the 1950s and 1960s like anti-North, anti-Aryan, anti-Hindi campaign and a call for state autonomy seemed to have run out of steam from the 1990s as the party became part of the very set-up it abhorred — Government of India.