#Editorial

A village sign board in Thanjavur district. Place names travel into every official document that carries an address.

A street should not carry a caste

The High Court has done what successive governments promised in 1978 and never finished. The State's status report must be honest, public and followed by a deadline.

1 October 2026 · 2 min read

Fort St. George, seat of the Tamil Nadu Assembly. Two of its seats fell vacant within five weeks of the April election.

Opinion

Resign, switch, recontest: the loophole voters are paying for

The Madurantakam and Dharapuram byelections were caused by two MLAs who resigned and changed parties a month after being elected. The Tenth Schedule cannot stop this. Parliament should.

1 October 2026 · 2 min read

A fishing boat at sunrise off Uthandi, south of Chennai. The city's shore is a workplace for tens of thousands of families.

Opinion

The coast is not empty land

A new Secretariat at Pattinapakkam and seven Chennai boats held in Andhra Pradesh are two sides of one question: does the State see its fishers as citizens or as occupants of valuable sand?

30 September 2026 · 2 min read

Children in a village classroom near Coimbatore. From this week, every pupil in Classes 1 to 8 at a government or aided school is entitled to breakfast.

Opinion

A hundred years of feeding children at school

The extension of the breakfast scheme to Class 8 is the newest link in a chain that began in Madras in 1922. Its strength is that no government has broken it. The next step is to measure what children actually eat and learn.

30 September 2026 · 2 min read