Dr Krishnasamy’s Message For Fahadh Faasil: Why This Tamil Politician’s Appeal To A Film Star Is Being Appreciated

The movie Mammannan (2023) released by ‘Red Giant’ has become embroiled in a caste controversy. The film, directed by Mari Selvaraj, reportedly takes a minor character perceived as marginalized from the caste-based movie Thevar Magan (1992) and expands on the theme of villainous caste arrogance and democratic social justice. The cast includes renowned actor Vadivelu,…

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‘Indo-European’ – Beyond The Homeland Question

Twenty years ago, in 2003, a study in Nature that analysed ‘a matrix of 87 languages with 2,449 lexical items’ came to the conclusion that the Indo-European languages ‘expanded with the spread of agriculture from Anatolia around 8,000–9,500 years Before Present (BP)’. The study used the model to evaluate two dominant hypotheses – Steppe expansion…

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