Stories written by

Karthick Ram Manoharan

With pioneering schemes, Karunanidhi provided a model for the politics of social justice in India

Under his leadership, the DMK was sensitive to the plight of religious, caste and sexual minorities.

Karthick Ram Manoharan
· Aug 10, 2018 · 07:15 am
What was Lenin doing before the Russian Revolution? Read Alexander Solzhenitsyn to find out

‘Lenin in Zurich’, by the author of ‘The Gulag Archipelago’ gives us Lenin during the prelude to the Revolution. But is it fact or fiction?

Karthick Ram Manoharan
· Nov 12, 2017 · 05:30 pm
This novel reminds us how a creative artist dealt with the might of a (Leftist) totalitarian state

In Julian Barnes’s ‘The Noise of Time’ composer Shostakovich rebels where possible, accepts his fate where not.

Karthick Ram Manoharan
· Apr 02, 2017 · 07:00 am

Not just Tamil pride: Jallikattu supporters are hitting back at Centre's cultural imperialism

If the sport was a mere ritual of a particular caste in southern Tamil Nadu, what would explain protests by Tamils in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, and diaspora in London?

Karthick Ram Manoharan
· Jan 23, 2017 · 12:30 pm