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How Tamil cinema romanticises agriculture by ignoring issues of caste and gender

With the ‘save farmers’ trope coming back to mainstream discussion after the jallikattu protests in 2017, movies once again began connecting Tamil identity to agriculture. Any threat to agriculture was seen as a threat to Tamil identity itself. Akchayaa Rajkumar writes.

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Portrait of Shivaji Ganesan by Lata Mangeshkar's sister Usha Mangeshkar.

This was gifted to Shivaji Sir by Lata Di herself with whom she had a close bonding.

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