Random speak!

Is the state of Tamilnadu in for a big political surprise, either in the run-up to the  assembly elections, the coming year 2021? There are some observers who also now suggest that the polls may get a bit delayed owing to the ongoing pandemic in Covid, and how people's life has been thrown out of gear. Irrespective of the delay, or even the fact that the polling percentage across the state could be drastically low, the polls will indeed happen - and that is not the surprise we are speaking of. In the normal course, after the present ruling party, the AIADMK having been in government for two successive terms, the opposition, under the able leadership of MK Stalin ought to be extremely confident of a easy and maybe simple win, in  the coming polls. That, in the normal course should be a given, in the backdrop of the fact that the ever charismatic Jayalalitha is not around to lead the AIADMK. That besides, most political observers here do say that the general popularity or leader...

The primary question for someone like me, these days in Tamilnadu - Is there something called unbiased media in this state, and is it ok to call large sections of the media sympathetic to one major ideology in this state as 'neutral media' - because, that is what is the kind of definition even established journalists seem to be giving, in respect of Chennai and Tamilnadu. Until recently, at least to an extent, we all thought that a large part of the media in Tamilnadu was neutral, with may be a handfiul of journalists taking sides or having no qualms that they are side with a political party, or say a kind of pan-regional idealogy, something like a Dravidian mindset. Thanks to the developments, and muck and counter muck in the recent past in the social media, by journalists themself or Youtubers who hold sympathy and exist to propagate a view point, be it right wing (BJP/RSS) or Dravidian viewpoint (DMK/ADMK etc) or a more widely accepted, and supposedly prevalent view, in the ...