Kavitha Muralidharan

After a flurry of coups and near-coronations, TN may settle down to a Thevar-Gounder tug of war

Sasikala’s coup was always lurking in the script somewhere, but OPS’s defiance has stumped her

Sasikala, a Jayalalitha or a Janaki redux? That’s a ­million-dollar question for the post-Amma party.

Will OPS last? Will Sasikala prevail? Other castes are watching...so are BJP, Congress.

Dravidian politics was universal, at least in theory. The Thevar rise changes the grammar.