
Recipient of Sahitya Akademi Award meets Chief Minister
The Hindu
Historian A.R. Venkatachalapathy meets Chief Minister M.K. Stalin to discuss building monuments for Tirunelveli uprising.
Historian A.R. Venkatachalapathy, who won the Sahitya Akademi Award, 2024, for his book, Tirunelveeli Ezucciyum Vaa. Vuu.Ci. Yum 1908, met Chief Minister M.K. Stalin at his camp office on Saturday. Mr. Stalin congratulated him for winning the award. Mr. Venkatachalapathy said he informed Mr. Stalin that there were no monuments in Tirunelveli and Thoothukudi to remember the Tirunelveli uprising. Mr. Stalin promised him that the State government would build one. Governor R.N. Ravi felicitated Mr. Venkatachalapathy at the Raj Bhavan, and congratulated the historian.

The sudden demise of Deputy Chief Minister and NCP supreme Ajit Pawar has thrown Maharashtra's politics in a state of flux. The regional power equations in a turbulent political ecosystem are likely to change due to the death of a mass leader with a strong grip over administration, and acceptance across the entire party leadership. As the chequered path of succession will be discussed, throwing several names from the Pawar family and outside the Pawar family in the ring, speculations on whether his wife Sunetra Pawar will emerge as the dark horse, have also emerged. What will be the decision of the Pawar family, how will Mahayuti be shaped now, what path will the senior satraps of NCP who had accepted Ajit Pawar's leadership, take? His death has led to several unanswered questions, leaving a void in the State politics for a long time.












