Posts Tagged ‘Jayalalitha’

By kamla bhatt • Mar 22nd, 2009 • Category: Books and Authors, Entertainment, Featured, India, People, San Francisco/Silicon Valley

Vaasanthi is a writer and former editor of India Today, Tamil edition. She is the author of a fascinating book onĀ  Tamil Nadu politics titled, Cut-outs, Caste and Cine Stars. Tamil Nadu was the first Indian state and perhaps the first in the world to consciously use films as a political vehicle and medium to [...]



By kamla bhatt • Mar 22nd, 2009 • Category: Books and Authors, Chennai, Entertainment, Featured, India, People, San Francisco/Silicon Valley

In Part-2 of our conversation Vaasanthi talks athe evolution of Tamil politics since independence.
Vaasanthi’s book Cut-outs, Caste and Cine Stars is a primer to understand the political contradictions that exist in Tamil Nadu. The book, a collection of essays, begins by looking at EVR or Periyar, the founder of the Self-Respect movement in pre independent [...]