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Tamil Nadu's political landscape sees caste-based parties aligning with major Dravidian outfits to gain legislative representation. These alliances, often driven by electoral prospects rather than ideology, allow smaller outfits to contest on larger parties' symbols, influencing multi-cornered contests and securing community interests.

He just turned 93. But Dravidar Kazhagam (DK) leader Krishnaswami Veeramani leads the life of a young politician. On a normal day, he has at least one event to attend and many a time, he visits three districts a day for party events, book releases, memorial ceremonies and weddings. As DK prepares for its mentor E V Ramasamy Periyar’s 52nd death anniversary that falls on Dec 24, Veeramani, in an interview with Jaya Menon, speaks about Periyarism’s survival and the battles to keep it alive.

Dravidar Kazhagam leader K Veeramani decried the `mudslinging' against Karnataka HC CJ P D Dinakaran and said the a vilification campaign was on to prevent his elevation as a judge of the SC because he is a Dalit.

Leaders of political parties in Tamil Nadu on Sunday greeted BJP state president Tamilisai Soundararajan, who has been appointed as the governor of Telangana.

Tamil Nadu chief minister M K Stalin on Wednesday announced that a statue of late chief minister and DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi would be re-installed on Anna Salai in Chennai. A statue of the leader installed on the arterial road earlier was vandalised on December 24, 1987, hours after then CM M G Ramachandran died at his residence in Ramavaram Gardens. The statue was damaged in the ensuing violence.

Finding astrology and other pseudo sciences' as major challenges confronting the humankind, idealogues from across the world will converge in Tiruchi to chalk out a course of action to propagate atheism and rationalism.

Thousands of people browsed and bought books at the 37th Chennai Book Fair which concludes today.