Vikram Murali

Proud fan of Manchester United, Ferrari F1 & Chennai City Football Club | Marketing Professional at The Hindu 🗞

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From Ilayathalapathy to Chief Minister, the last dance begins.

In 2007, The Hindu wrote: "His future, should he become a politician, is paved with gold."

Today, as 'Jana Nayagan' releases, the journey from screen to governance comes full circle. The same newspaper that once tracked his film career is now covering his governance. The prediction, the journey, the final act all coming together on one stage. From predicting a star's political future to documenting it, @the_hindu has chronicled the entire arc.
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The new chairman of The Hindu Group is veteran N. Murali who brings rich experience to lead our group at a challenging time👍.

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The businessline Changemaker Awards 2026 celebrates individuals and organisations creating meaningful impact across industries and communities.

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Just In | The AIADMK is learnt to have sent feelers to the DMK seeking support to form a government in Tamil Nadu where the recent elections threw up a hung Assembly. The DMK leadership, however, gave short shrift to the proposal, sources said. The DMK “was firm on sitting in the Opposition”, as it was not interested in going against the people’s mandate.

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In this video, Amitesh Kumar Sinha, Addl. Secretary, Ministry of Electronics & IT and CEO of India Semiconductor Mission (ISM), explain why India’s chip strategy starts with mature nodes (28–90 nm) that power telecom, automobiles, and industrial applications. He also spoke about government’s long‑term policy commitment, and how advanced technologies like silicon photonics, OLED, and next‑gen nodes fit into the future vision.

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[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am a diplomatic aide in the Sultanate of Oman's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

My job is logistics. When two countries that cannot speak to each other need to speak to each other, I book the rooms. I prepare the briefing materials. I make sure the water glasses are the right distance apart. You would be surprised how much of diplomacy is water glasses. Too close and it feels informal. Too far and it feels like a tribunal. I have a chart.

We had a very good month.

Since January, Oman has been mediating indirect talks between the United States and Iran on Iran's nuclear program. The talks were held in Muscat and in Geneva. The Americans would sit in one room. The Iranians would sit in another room. I would walk between them. My Fitbit says I averaged fourteen thousand steps on negotiation days. The hallway between the two rooms at the Royal Opera House conference center is forty-seven meters. I walked it two hundred and twelve times in February. This is good for my cardiovascular health. It was less good for my knees. Both are in the service of peace.

By mid-February, we had something.

Iran agreed to zero stockpiling of enriched uranium. Not reduced stockpiling. Zero. They agreed to down-blend existing stockpiles to the lowest possible level. They agreed to convert them into irreversible fuel. They agreed to full IAEA verification with potential US inspector access. They agreed, in the Foreign Minister's phrase, to "never, ever" possess nuclear material for a bomb. I have worked in diplomacy for seven years. I have never seen a country agree to this many things this quickly. I made a spreadsheet of the concessions. It had fourteen rows. I color-coded it. Green for confirmed. Yellow for pending. By February 21 the spreadsheet was entirely green. I printed it. It is on my desk in Muscat. It is still green.

That phrase took eleven days. "Never, ever." The Iranians initially offered "not seek to." The Americans wanted "will not under any circumstances." We landed on "never, ever" at 2:14 AM on a Tuesday in Muscat. I typed the final version myself. I used Times New Roman because Geneva prefers it. The document was fourteen pages. I was proud of every comma.

Here is what they said, in the order they said it.

February 24: "We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity." — The Foreign Minister, private briefing to Gulf Cooperation Council ambassadors. I prepared the slide deck. Slide 14 was the implementation timeline. Slide 15 was the signing ceremony logistics. I had reserved the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Room XX. It seats four hundred. We discussed pen brands for the signing. The Iranians preferred Montblanc. The Americans had no preference. I ordered twelve Montblanc Meisterstucks at six hundred and thirty dollars each. They arrive on Tuesday.

February 27, 8:30 AM EST: "The deal is within our reach." — The Foreign Minister, CBS Face the Nation. He sat across from Margaret Brennan. He said broad political terms could be agreed "tomorrow" with ninety days for technical implementation in Vienna. He said, and I wrote this line for the briefing card he carried in his breast pocket: "If we just allow diplomacy the space it needs." He praised the American envoys by name. Steve Witkoff. Jared Kushner. He said both had been constructive.

I watched from the Four Seasons Georgetown. The minibar had cashews. I ate the cashews. They were nineteen dollars. The most expensive cashew I have ever eaten. But it was a good morning and we were within our reach.

February 27, 2:00 PM EST: Meeting with Vice President Vance, Washington. The Foreign Minister presented our progress. Zero stockpiling. Full verification. Irreversible conversion. "Never, ever." The Vice President used the word "encouraging." His aide took notes on an iPad. The aide did not make eye contact for the last nine minutes of the meeting. I noticed this. Noticing things is the only part of my job that is not water glasses.

February 27, 4:00 PM EST: "Not happy with the pace." — President Trump, to reporters.

Not happy with the pace.

We had achieved zero stockpiling. Full IAEA verification. Irreversible fuel conversion. Inspector access. And the phrase "never, ever," which took eleven days and cost me two hundred and twelve trips down a forty-seven-meter hallway.

Every American president since Carter has failed to get Iran to agree to this. Forty-five years.

Not happy with the pace.

February 27, 9:47 PM EST: The Foreign Minister's flight departs Dulles for Muscat. I am in the seat behind him. He is reviewing Slide 14 on his laptop. The implementation timeline. Vienna technical sessions. The signing ceremony. The pens.

I fall asleep over the Atlantic. I dream about water glasses.

February 28, 6:00 AM GST: I wake up to push notifications.

February 28: "The United States has begun major combat operations in Iran." — President Trump.

Operation Epic Fury. Coordinated airstrikes. The United States and Israel. Tehran. Isfahan. Qom. Karaj. Kermanshah. Nuclear facilities. IRGC bases. Sites near the Supreme Leader's office. Israel called their half Operation Roaring Lion. Someone in both governments spent time choosing these names. Epic Fury. Roaring Lion. I spent eleven days on "never, ever." They spent it on branding. The President said Iran had "rejected American calls to halt its nuclear weapons production."

Rejected.

Iran had agreed to zero stockpiling. Iran had agreed to full verification. Iran had agreed to "never, ever." Iran had agreed to everything in a fourteen-page document that I typed in Times New Roman.

The President said they rejected it.

I do not know which document the President was reading. I know which one I typed.

February 28, 18:45 UTC: Iran internet connectivity: four percent. — NetBlocks, confirmed by Cloudflare. Ninety-six percent of a country went dark. You cannot negotiate with a country at four percent connectivity. You cannot negotiate with a country that is being struck. You cannot negotiate. This is not a political opinion. This is a logistics assessment.

February 28: The governor of Minab reported forty girls killed at an elementary school.

I do not have logistics for that. There is no slide for that. The water glass chart does not cover that.

February 28: Lockheed Martin: up. Northrop Grumman: up. RTX: up. Dow futures: down six hundred and twenty-two points. Gold: five thousand two hundred and ninety-six dollars. An analyst at AInvest published a note titled "Iran Strikes: Tactical Plays." The note recommended positions in oil, defense stocks, and gold.

The most expensive cashew I have ever eaten was nineteen dollars. The most expensive pen I have ever ordered was six hundred and thirty dollars. The math suggests I have been working in the wrong industry. Defense stocks do not require water glasses. Defense stocks do not require eleven days. Defense stocks require one morning.

February 28: Israel closed its airspace and its schools. Iran launched retaliatory missiles toward US bases in the Gulf. The Supreme Leader promised a "crushing response." Israel's defense minister declared a permanent state of emergency. Everyone is using words I recognize in an order I do not. I recognize "permanent." I recognize "emergency." I do not recognize them next to each other. In diplomacy, nothing is permanent and everything is an emergency. In war it is the reverse.

February 28: The Foreign Minister has not made a public statement.

The briefing card is still in his breast pocket. It still says "within our reach."

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am the War Powers Resolution.

I was born on November 7, 1973. My mother was Vietnam. My father was the Gulf of Tonkin. I was conceived in a lie, delivered over a veto, and raised by a Congress that has not picked me up since.

Fifty-eight thousand people died and Congress said never again. They wrote me. I am the "never again." I am fifty-three years old. I have never worked once.

I have three sections. Nobody has read them. The last person to cite me correctly in a floor speech was Senator Kaine, who calls me by name like we are old friends. We are not friends. I am a statute. He is the only person in the building who knows where I am filed. We have a parasocial relationship. He cites me. I do nothing. This is the relationship.

Here is what I require:

Section 3: Consult Congress within forty-eight hours before sending troops into hostilities.

Section 4: Submit a report.

Section 5: Withdraw all forces within sixty days unless Congress says yes.

I have a sixty-day clock.

No president has ever let it tick past thirty. No president has ever let it tick past ten. No president has ever wound it. I am a clock in a building full of people who have agreed that time is a suggestion. I am a sundial in a room with no windows. I am a stopwatch at a race where everyone left before the gun.

On February 28, 2026, the United States invaded Iran.

Operation Epic Fury. I would have suggested a different name. Nobody asked. Tehran. Isfahan. Qom. Karaj. Kermanshah. Nuclear facilities. IRGC bases. Sites near the Supreme Leader's office. The president said: "The United States has begun major combat operations in Iran."

Congress was on vacation.

The Senate was in recess until Monday. The House until Wednesday. The bombs fell Friday. I require forty-eight hours. Friday plus forty-eight is Sunday. The Senate returns Monday. My deadline expires while the building is locked. I am a law that requires an answer from an empty room. I am a voicemail to a number that has been disconnected. I am a terms-and-conditions popup on a screen that is already on fire.

Secretary of State Rubio briefed "most" of the Gang of Eight. I need to stop here.

"Most."

The Gang of Eight is eight people. It is called the Gang of Eight because there are eight of them. "Most" of eight is not eight. I require "Congress." Congress is five hundred and thirty-five people. Rubio briefed five. That is zero-point-nine percent of Congress. I have been rounded down to less than one percent of my own requirement. I did not know a law could be rounded down. I have learned something new at fifty-three.

Here is who mentioned me this week:

Senator Tim Kaine: "Illegal war." Called me by name. Demanded the Senate reconvene. Said every senator should go on record. Called the strikes "dangerous, unnecessary, and idiotic." He has been doing this since 2014. It has never worked. He keeps doing it. I respect the commitment. I understand the futility. We have that in common.

Representative Thomas Massie, Republican, and Representative Ro Khanna, Democrat: Planning a bipartisan resolution to enforce me. A Republican and a Democrat agree that the law should be the law. This is considered news. In what country is it news that two legislators believe in legislation. This one.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune: Plans to schedule briefings.

Briefings. Not votes. Briefings.

I do not have a section that requires briefings. I have a section that requires a vote. A briefing is a room where someone shows slides. A vote is a room where someone takes responsibility. I have been alive for fifty-three years. They have scheduled briefings for all of them.

Here is my résumé:

Nixon said I was unconstitutional. Ford agreed. Carter obeyed me but refused to say my name in public, like a man who takes his medicine but tells the pharmacist he's fine. Reagan took Grenada without me. Bush the First assembled a coalition, consulted me out of politeness, and never called again. Clinton bombed Kosovo for seventy-eight days and told everyone he was dating NATO. Bush the Second got an authorization so broad it covered everything from Baghdad to the concept of fear. Obama bombed Libya and his lawyers argued it was not a "war" because there were no boots on the ground — which is the legal equivalent of saying a flood is not water because nobody is swimming. Trump the First hit Syria twice without texting. Biden kept troops in three countries and simply pretended I was not home. Trump the Second invaded Iran.

Twelve presidents.

Same answer.

I am a law that was passed by Congress. Passed over a veto. Signed into the United States Code. I have section numbers and subsections and a sixty-day clock and the full weight and authority of a document that everyone has agreed to treat like a takeout menu someone left on the windshield.

I have been cited in four hundred and twelve floor speeches.

I have been enforced in zero military actions.

Four hundred and twelve to zero is not a record. It is a ritual. They say my name before they ignore me. I am the prayer before the meal. I am the safety video before the flight. I am the part of the ceremony everyone sits through so they can get to the part where they do what they were always going to do.

I am the most cited, most ignored law in American history.

I am a fire alarm in a building where the sound means lunch.

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The Senate returns Monday. Kaine will demand a vote. Massie will introduce a resolution. Thune will schedule a briefing. The briefing will have slides. The slides will reference me. Someone will read my name aloud. Someone will say "pursuant to." Someone will say "consistent with." These are not the same word. Nobody will notice.

The sixty-day clock will start.

Nobody will watch it.

The clock has never been watched. The clock was built to be watched. It was the whole point. Congress spent eleven months writing a clock and fifty-three years not looking at it.

I was made because fifty-eight thousand people died.

I am the "never again."

I have been "never again" thirteen times.

[Kamal Haasan @ikamalhaasan]

A Special reunion with my friend @Rajinikanth.
Every great journey deserves another chapter!

My best to @NelsonDilpkumar and @AnirudhOfficial - and to @RedGiantMovies for powering this collaboration.

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[Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor]

It was a terrific discussion that went past 1:30 pm, followed by a book-signing queue of over 400 persons that delayed my lunch by another two hours! All outweighed by the sheer joy of encountering devoted readers in this highly literate city

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#Watch: Inside The Hindu Lit for Life 2026

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Registrations for The Hindu Lit for Life 2026 are now open!

📆January 17 & 18, 2026
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From left: H. Shankar, Managing Director, CPCL; Srivats Ram, Immediate Past Chairman, CII Tamil Nadu and Managing Director, Wheels India; N. Ravi, Director, Kasturi & Sons Ltd.; and Suresh Nambath, Editor, The Hindu, at the inaugural session of The Hindu Sustainability Summit 2025.
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#TheHinduSustainabilitySummit2025 | H. Shankar (MD, CPCL), N. Ravi (Director, Kasturi & Sons Ltd.), Srivats Ram (Immediate Past Chairman, CII, T.N.; MD, Wheels India), and Suresh Nambath (Editor, The Hindu) inaugurate the summit in #Chennai on Friday, November 7.
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