Aruliniyan Mahalingam

When the governing council of the University of Peradeniya voted in May 2020 to discard the findings of its own formal disciplinary inquiry, which had found a senior professor guilty of cyberstalking, repeated physical touching and sustained emotional abuse of a junior colleague under his academic supervision, it may have assumed the matter was over. Dr. W. A. M. Udari L. Abeyasinghe, the junior colleague at the centre of the complaint and a dentist and lecturer at the same faculty, had already

CHENNAI — Whether one supported actor-turned-politician Vijay or not, almost everyone agreed on one thing: he had done the impossible. In a state where political power had rotated between two Dravidian parties for nearly six decades, Vijay emerged out of the blue, entered the political spectrum, and led his fledgling Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam to 108 seats, making it the single largest party in Tamil Nadu’s 234-member assembly. It was, by any measure, a democratic earthquake. Even his critics a

CHENNAI —On the evening of May 8, what began as an expected constitutional meeting for actor-turned-politician Vijay with the Governor to stake claim to form the government quickly turned into one of the biggest political dramas Tamil Nadu has witnessed in recent years. As of early Saturday morning, Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar had not invited Vijay, whose Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam won 108 seats in the 2026 state election and emerged as the single largest bloc in the 234-member Assembly,