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Thursday, May 21, 2026
TopicTamilnadu

Topic: Tamilnadu

Zamindar of Singampatti, an LIC agent and last of ‘crowned’ rulers left in India, dies

Aananth Daksnamurthy -
T.N.S. Murugadoss Theerthapathy was 3 when he took over as ruler in 1934 but his family lost some 74,000 acres of land after Zamindar Abolition Act was passed in 1950s. 

Jayendra Saraswathi was a reformist whose work was overshadowed by court cases

Kalyan Arun -
Jayandra Saraswathi had tried to break the hold of the Brahminical orthodoxy over the Kanchi math and make it more egalitarian.

Do your math. You will see that Modi increasingly looks like a one-term Prime Minister

Praveen Chakravarty -
The BJP has not shown any signs of improving its tally in its weak large states such as West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

SC’s verdict leaves us high and dry, say farmers in Tamil Nadu’s Cauvery Delta

Swapna Merlin -
Farmers and the opposition allege that the state government has not done enough to ensure that Tamil Nadu gets at least 205 TMC of Cauvery water.   

Periyar would have been happy seeing how couples celebrated Valentine’s Day this year

Manuraj Shunmugasundaram -
Were he alive, Periyar would be happy to see such young couples defy rightwing moral policing

A Tamil Nadu bypoll will decide the future of 4 leaders, 2 parties & alliances

Kalyani Shankar -
OPS, EPS, Dinakaran, and Stalin's futures are at stake in R.K. Nagar. It will also indicate new political alliances before the 2019 LS polls.

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Economy

3 cases, Trump’s lawyer & the settlement: What US dropping charges means for Adani | Cut The Clutter

Shekhar Gupta | Cut The Clutter -
In Episode 1841 of Cut The Clutter, ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta details the criminal charges against Gautam Adani dropped by US this week & what it development signifies.

Defence

What’s the story behind war memorial jointly inaugurated by India, South Korea during Rajnath visit

Akshat Mohan -
Built by India’s Defence Ministry to commemorate the 75th anniversary of India’s participation in the Korean War, it marks a strategic effort to leverage soft power and historical links.

National Interest

Pakistan is tactically brilliant, strategically disastrous. It’s primed for repeated blunders

Shekhar Gupta -
Pakistan has ended up losing every war against India but that hasn’t prevented it from claiming victory. We will go over the evidence to anticipate what to expect next.

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