On M.K.Stalin.

A leader isn’t a leader if he is not capable of building bridges with his foes. The public rally is over. The noise, plaudits and rhetoric’s have died down. The leaders of various political parties who had flown in to Chennai for the rally to coincide with the nonagenarian’s birthday have gone back after selling /reinforcing a dream to DMK patriarch’s son; that of leading the State in the near future. Stalin as Chief Minister. Like his father. Or in his hallucinations, better than his father, ‘Kalaignar.’  ‘Ilaya Thalapathi,’ perhaps sounds better.

But where are the regional leaders?  Whoever they might be. Spent forces or acerbic critics. If Stalin thinks he can do without them he is mistaken…