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...hermetically sealed fantasy world that most Indian films inhabit, Ratnam's movies often flirt with incendiary political issues: a terrorist kidnapping in Roja; the 1992-93 Hindi-Muslim riots in Bombay; the rivalry of Tamil actor-statesman M.G. Ramachandran (known as MGR) and screenwriter-statesman M. Karunanidhi (MK) in Iruvar; more terrorism in Del Se; the Sri Lankan war in Kannathil Muthamittal. He is also fascinated with powerful figures in the Mumbai Mafia. Nayakan attached the structure of The Godfather to the career of gang lord Varadarajan Mudaliar, and Ratnam revisited the underworld in Agni Nakshatram and Thalapathi...
...when the returns came in last week, the results were calamitous for Congress, which won only 26 of 232 seats in the state assembly. Moreover, the victor, Muthuvel Karunanidhi, was aligned with the National Front, a coalition of parties formed to defeat Gandhi in the national elections to be held later this year. Meanwhile, the Congress chief minister of another state, Arjun Singh, resigned over charges that he profited from funds misappropriated from a lottery held to benefit child-welfare programs. Observed New Delhi's Statesman: "Things are falling apart for Mr. Gandhi...
...Delhi's pretext for the takeover was that the ousted government of Chief Minister Muthuvel Karunanidhi was guilty of "acts of maladministration, corruption and misuse of power for partisan ends." The more probable cause was the prospect of state elections. In Tamil Nadu's assembly, Karunanidhi's Dravidian Progress Party, a populist movement dedicated to social reform and greater state autonomy, held a commanding majority. The assembly's tenure was due to expire March 21, and Mrs. Gandhi did not want to extend its life. Apparently she feared that any election-state or national-during...
...social program, such as abolition of indentured labor, land redistribution and expanded irrigation networks. That may be so. But her determination to quash all opposition suggests that she does not dare to risk a genuine test of her popularity. "Corruption is not the real issue here," deposed Chief Minister Karunanidhi told TIME Correspondent William Smith last week. "She wants one-party rule and one-woman rule...
Tamil Nadu's chief minister, Muthuvel Karunanidhi, a teetotaler himself, was obviously irked when legislative assembly members greeted his decision with cheers. The move had been more or less forced upon him. As Karunanidhi metaphorically put it, the state had become "a gem of camphor surviving unlit in the midst of the flaming tongues of a hoop of fire"-meaning that thirsty Tamils had only to drive to adjoining Pondicherry, Mysore, Kerala or Andhra Pradesh for a drink. There was also an overriding economic reason for repeal. The state faces an $80 million budget deficit. Toddy will bring...
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