The recent murder of Indian origin techie Srinivas Kuchibhotla in the US is a violent expression and kick start of what has been bickering up on the back-burners of our contemporary times and history. Such socio-psychological developments that led an American to kill young Srinivas have been rooted in the race and ethnicity perspectives not only caused by the globalisation, but also by the changing economic aspects of today's world.

Over the last 2-3 decades, politics in Tamil Nadu has plummeted to its nadir in terms of ideological bereftness of the parties and the distancing of successive governments from the launching of developmental schemes in preference to populist measures and freebies.