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In a candid conversation with a Political Officer at the U.S. Consulate-General in Chennai in February 2008, DMK MP Dayanidhi Maran spoke of corruption in his party and the increasing anti-incumbency factor in Tamil Nadu, according to a cable accessed by “The Hindu” through WikiLeaks. File photo
The Hindu In a candid conversation with a Political Officer at the U.S. Consulate-General in Chennai in February 2008, DMK MP Dayanidhi Maran spoke of corruption in his party and the increasing anti-incumbency factor in Tamil Nadu, according to a cable accessed by “The Hindu” through WikiLeaks. File photo

When in power, people start making money, Maran told U.S. Political Officer

The estranged DMK M.P. spoke about party's corrupt image & predicted its downfall; criticised ‘freebies'; praised Rahul Gandhi; was ‘very downbeat' about United Progressive Alliance's electoral prospects »      34 comments

Related: 142702: Maran says ruling coalition in trouble
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The then Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi, on a day-long hunger strike at the Marina Beach in April 2009 to protest against the military action in Sri Lanka. Photo: R. Raghu

Maran called Karunanidhi's October 2008 resignation threat a diversionary ‘drama'

Spoke of DMK leader's attempted ‘blackmail' on Sri Lanka, warned that the Congress ‘will carry this grudge and retaliate at the right time' »      18 comments

Related: 176372: DMK calls off threat to pull support from UPA over Sri Lanka violence

Amar Singh asked Manmohan and Sonia to remove Chidambaram, Deora: 2008 cable

It was part of a ‘deal' for the nuclear deal arrangement with political parties »      10 comments

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The world of Bollywood as seen through American diplomatic eyes

'Excessive production expenses and high payments to stars may make the industry unsustainable in the long run' »      19 comments

‘Islands of growth' despite hurdles for Catholic Church

Vatican representatives describe Catholic presence in India as both “growing” and “small” »      5 comments

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A file photo of Rajiv Gandhi.
CHENNAI, April 8, 2013

Rajiv Gandhi was ‘entrepreneur’ for Swedish jet, U.S. cable says

Revelation contained in Kissinger-era documents obtained by WikiLeaks »
Chennai, April 22, 2011

Southern successes

Bollywood accounts for only about 200 of the 1,000 films that are annually produced in India, but “in terms of reach and revenue, as well as its stable of nationally-recognized stars,... »
A cable noted that with the backing of a large parliamentary constituency and allied with the ruling Congress party, “Banerjee's Trinamool is well placed to win the 2011 state assembly elections,” if she travels in the same route.
CHENNAI, April 21, 2011

U.S. government should ‘continue to cultivate' Mamata

Consulate found ‘encouraging signs' her regime would be ‘friendlier' than Left Front »
CHENNAI, April 21, 2011

Constitutional controls check radical Hindutva, says U.S diplomat

Anti-conversion bill stymied by political process »
CHENNAI, April 4, 2011

Kashmir issue clouds Indian view of Kosovo

U.S. urged India to stand with Europe and America in recognising Unilateral Declaration of Independence »
April 8, 2013

The Kissinger Cables

Continuing a partnership that began in 2011 with the India Cables and Pakistan Cables, The Hindu is in investigative collaboration with WikiLeaks once again to bring to its readers a new se... »
TWO DECADES LATER: A victim of the riots at a 2005 demonstration in New Delhi. Photo: Sandeep Saxena
LONDON, April 22, 2011

Manmohan Singh's apology for anti-Sikh riots a ‘Gandhian moment of moral clarity,' says 2005 cable

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's public apology for the 1984 anti-Sikh riots is hailed in an American diplomatic cable as a “singular act of political courage'' and an “almost Gan... »
LONDON, April 21, 2011

‘The Kremlin on the Jumna'

Jawaharlal Nehru University seen as centre of Indian Left soft power »
Electoral defeats in 2007 and their impact on impending Uttar Pradesh polls made some Congressmen seek 'a more saleable political face at the head of the government.' Photo: Kamal Narang
CHENNAI, April 4, 2011

A struggle between 'reform cadre' and the 'old line' in the Congress

Cable speaks of some members of the party advocating that Sonia Gandhi jettison Manmohan Singh as Prime Minister »
West Bengal Chief Minister and veteran Marxist Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was “clearly…receptive to engagement with the US,” says a U.S. Embassy Cable.
CHENNAI, April 3, 2011

West Bengal's pro-business Chief Minister reaches out

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee expresses his desire for greater U.S. investment in the State »
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