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An article published on 26 February 2021 briefly carried the headline

To encourage critical enquiry, journalism must constantly remind citizens of the troubled past and difficult battles

Interview: AS Panneerselvan on Tamil politics and the disadvantages faced by regional parties The author of a new biography of M Karunanidhi talks about the complexities in negotiating with a homogenising Centre. The Hindu’s Readers’ Editor and the author of Karunanidhi: A Life, a recent biography of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, who led the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam for half a century till his death in August 2018. While the book is presented as a biography of a political leader, it is also a tale of the Dravidian movement, whose political offshoots have ruled Tamil ...

An article on November 21 about the government's use of Covid statistics included a graph headlined 'fatalities are barely any higher' which compared weekly 2020 deaths up to week 44 against the minimum and maximum weekly deaths over the past five years 'adjusted for population growth'. In fact, the figures n were also adjusted for demographic changes. As the article made clear, according to ONS data, deaths in week 45 were '11,812 which was 14.3 per cent, or 1,481 deaths higher, than the five-year average.'    To report an inaccuracy, please email corrections@dailymail.co.uk. To make a for...

Who pays the piper Updated: Updated: There is no clientelist relationship between the management and the Readers’ Editor Share Article There is no clientelist relationship between the management and the Readers’ Editor Last Wednesday, a Chennai-based reader, M.D. Menon, came up with an interesting proposal regarding my salary as the Readers’ Editor. He felt that half my salary should be paid by the readers or at least a group of readers who want the institution of the Readers’ Editor and the other half by The Hindu. He even worked out a tariff that had an annual member category and ...