THE SASIKALA CONUNDRUM
On October 30, politicians of every hue in Tamil Nadu, led by Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, made a bee-line for the samadhi of Pasumpon Muthuramalinga Thevar at Pasumpon in Ramanathapuram district on his 114th birth anniversary. But the event honouring the late freedom fighter and spiritual icon was eclipsed by the buzz over the possible return to the AIADMK of another member of his Mukkalothor Thevar cohort, V.K. Sasikala.
Released from jail in January this year, after a four-year-long incarceration in a Rs 66 crore disproportionate assets case, the late Jayalalithaa’s mer-curial aide is suddenly making news again. Sasikala had gone to Thevar’s Pasumpon shrine a
