The BJP, which is desperately trying to break the hegemony of the Dravidian political parties in Tamil Nadu, is evoking Tamil cultural identities and icons to make a place for itself in the social realm of the state.All said and done Dravidian .
While its roots lie in the freedom struggle (specifically in the music conference and concerts organised in 1927 to coincide with the annual session of the Indian National Congress in Madras), the Chennai Music Festival has become as much a social as a cultural event for the city and the diaspora.