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Mukund Padmanabhan

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'Keralam governor’s vegetarian kitchen in Lok Bhavan exposes India’s food hypocrisy' Mukund Padmanabhan @muk22, Professor of Philosophy at Krea University and former Editor of The Hindu, writes #BeyondBinaries #ThePrintOpinon theprint.in/opinion/beyond-b…
Keralam governor’s vegetarian kitchen row in Lok Bhavan exposes India’s food hypocrisy

Keralam governor’s vegetarian kitchen row in Lok Bhavan exposes India’s food hypocrisy

A political row erupted in Keralam over dietary freedoms after the newly appointed Keralam Governor Om Prakash Mathur directed a vegetarian-only kitchen at Lok Bhavan.

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I have been listening to this Tulsidas composition by TMK on a loop for some months now. Sheer unalloyed magic. @tmkrishna TM Krishna | Shri Ramchandra Kripalu Bhajaman I Tulsidas youtu.be/p2HxlE-qP_U?si=Qsd9… via @YouTube
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Halfway into Luke Kennard’s Black Bag and can’t help wishing the Booker Prize judges award it to this comic gem of a novel that is in a category of its own — not grieving realism, not autofiction, not sprawling historical etc. Just recklessly and unapologetically unique.
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'POCSO case against Tamil Nadu tycoon R Veeramani is as much about the cover-up as the crime' Mukund Padmanabhan @muk22, Professor of Philosophy at Krea University and former Editor of The Hindu, writes #BeyondBinaries #ThePrintOpinion theprint.in/opinion/pocso-ca…
POCSO case against Tamil Nadu tycoon R Veeramani is as much about the cover-up as the crime

POCSO case against Tamil Nadu tycoon R Veeramani is as much about the cover-up as the crime

If Stalin knew, why did he fail to act? If he didn’t, how did a major scandal involving a politically connected granite magnate escape him? The choice is stark: failure of enforcement or failure of...

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Replying to @dhume @mathrubhumi
manuspillai.com/sir-cp-ramas… Here you go
Sir CP Ramaswamy Iyer

Sir CP Ramaswamy Iyer

(Published in Mathrubhumi [Malayalam], 26 September 2026) To examine the legacy of Sir CP Ramaswami Iyer on his 60th death anniversary is to investigate a fascinating but mixed record. To his admir…

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Do watch. Shabbir Ahmed has done some good work on this case @Ahmedshabbir20
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@Ahmedshabbir20Sep 19
In this week’s #YenEndraKelvi Reporting from outside #Veeramani’s bungalow and exposing the lies of the #Chennai Police, who attempted to close a POCSO case during the previous #DMK regime. Watch: youtu.be/AYQ7WxK5tIU?si=bFC4…
GEM Veeramani POCSO case: உண்மையை புதைக்க முயன்ற Chennai police! | CM...

GEM Veeramani POCSO case: உண்மையை புதைக்க முயன்ற Chennai police! | CM...

The Chennai police have identified the minor girl allegedly sexuall...

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'Kerala journalist Aparna Kurup’s ordeal shows how free speech is silenced without censorship' Mukund Padmanabhan @muk22, professor of philosophy at Krea University & former Editor of The Hindu, writes #BeyondBinaries #ThePrintOpinion theprint.in/opinion/beyond-b…
Kerala journalist Aparna Kurup’s ordeal shows how free speech is silenced without censorship

Kerala journalist Aparna Kurup’s ordeal shows how free speech is silenced without censorship

India’s religious-insult laws are ripe for misuse, but Kerala's silence over threats against journalist Aparna Kurup for her show on Kanthapuram’s remarks is equally troubling.

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'Vijay cancelled Parandur despite economic costs. That is what keeping a promise looks like' Mukund Padmanabhan @muk22, professor of philosophy at Krea University & former Editor of The Hindu, writes #ThePrintOpinion theprint.in/opinion/vijay-ca…
Vijay cancelled Parandur despite economic costs. That is what keeping a promise looks like

Vijay cancelled Parandur despite economic costs. That is what keeping a promise looks like

Criticism of CM Vijay cancelling the Parandur project has logic to it, but it risks obscuring a fundamental distinction between a promise to do and a pledge to cancel.

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Vijay cancelled Parandur despite economic costs. That is what keeping a promise looks like

Vijay cancelled Parandur despite economic costs. That is what keeping a promise looks like

Criticism of CM Vijay cancelling the Parandur project has logic to it, but it risks obscuring a fundamental distinction between a promise to do and a pledge to cancel.

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'Indian politicians need to learn to take a joke' Mukund Padmanabhan @muk22, professor of philosophy at Krea University & former Editor of The Hindu, writes #BeyondBinaries #ThePrintOpinion theprint.in/opinion/beyond-b…
Indian politicians need to learn to take a joke

Indian politicians need to learn to take a joke

From stand-up comics facing FIRs to political leaders bristling at memes, India remains deeply uncomfortable with the freedom to mock.

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ToI Chennai edition 122 pages today! The Hindu clocked 80. Not bad for a newspaper industry said to be in steep decline
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'Gen Z vote can impact India’s electoral future. Just look at Tamil Nadu' Mukund Padmanabhan @muk22, professor of philosophy at Krea University and former Editor of The Hindu, writes #BeyondBinaries #ThePrintOpinion theprint.in/opinion/beyond-b…
Gen Z vote can impact India’s electoral future. Just look at Tamil Nadu

Gen Z vote can impact India’s electoral future. Just look at Tamil Nadu

What we are seeing now is not only a new generation of voters asserting its presence, but a change in the very architecture of persuasion itself.

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Good move! TN govt to have a revenue augmentation committee headed by reputed economist and policy maker Montek Singh Ahluwalia. This panel has been tasked to improve finances of the state by identifying areas of revenue generation.,
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'Would we be nicer without X? Social media is designed to make users lash out' Mukund Padmanabhan @muk22, professor of philosophy at Krea University & former Editor of The Hindu, writes #BeyondBinaries #ThePrintOpinion theprint.in/opinion/beyond-b…
Would we be nicer without X? Social media is designed to make users lash out

Would we be nicer without X? Social media is designed to make users lash out

The old binaries of the orthodox versus the modern, the Left versus the Right, the liberal versus the illiberal have given way to a fractured disorder online.

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'When marijuana is banned, why does bhang get a free pass?' Mukund Padmanabhan @muk22, professor of philosophy at Krea University & former Editor of The Hindu, writes #ThePrintOpinion theprint.in/opinion/beyond-b…
When marijuana is banned, why does bhang get a free pass?

When marijuana is banned, why does bhang get a free pass?

It is worth asking whether there is a case to decriminalise marijuana or, at the very least, treat it very differently from other drugs.

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'CM Vijay has begun the corruption clean-up. Can he sustain it?' Mukund Padmanabhan @muk22, professor of philosophy at Krea University & former Editor of The Hindu, writes #BeyondBinaries #ThePrintOpinion theprint.in/opinion/beyond-b…
CM Vijay has begun the corruption clean-up. Can he sustain it?

CM Vijay has begun the corruption clean-up. Can he sustain it?

Vijay has understood that the issue of petty corruption touches a political chord. Media's failure to recognise this was one of the reasons his electoral performance was underestimated.

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MIMP STORY! @DrMohanYadav51 can’t defend this well-known ‘family land scam.’ Since in Indian politics shame has no limit he will continue to be the CM of Madhya Pradesh. In New Delhi since last one year everyone has been talking about the massive land purchases by the CM’s friends and relatives. Good to see @mazoomdaar reporting on it. @IndianExpress
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Excellent piece and so very true
Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) profile pictureShashi Tharoor
@ShashiTharoorJun 11
My latest #TharoorThink column in the @IndianExpress looks at a cultural phenomenon more and more foreigners are noticing: the reflexive desire of the argumentative Indian for victory, rather than learning, in every conversational engagement. I ask why this is so and why it needs to change
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As someone involved in the governance of a small private residential school that has faced what may be politely called ‘recognition issues’, I sincerely hope this is true. Private schools in TN welcome move to end ‘payments’ for recognition renewal newindianexpress.com/states/…
Private schools in TN welcome move to end ‘payments’ for recognition renewal

Private schools in TN welcome move to end ‘payments’ for recognition renewal

CHENNAI: Representatives of private school associations have welcomed the state government’s move to streamline the recognition renewal process, saying it could

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'Is Vijay’s TVK ideologically bankrupt?' Mukund Padmanabhan @muk22, professor of philosophy at Krea University and former Editor of The Hindu, writes #ThePrintOpinion theprint.in/opinion/vijay-tv…
Is Vijay’s TVK ideologically bankrupt?

Is Vijay’s TVK ideologically bankrupt?

TVK's pragmatic centrism, founded on coalition and compromise and favouring wide appeal over rigid doctrinal purity, has got Vijay where he is. This exposes the charge of political naivete.

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