High decibel clashes between political factions, wordy-and sometimes bloody-duels between personality cults, touchingly grandiose attempts to resurrect a glorious ‘Tamil’ past, voluble, but feeble assaults on entrenched traditions of inequality, and stirring professions of commitment to nation-building…These have dominated the Tamil Nadu scene for the past half century.But decades of industrialisation and urbanization have uprooted millions, provided all ...