India, May 20 -- On May 4, actor-politician C Joseph Vijay stormed the political box office in Tamil Nadu. Vijay's win seemingly marked a rupture with the Dravidian politics that dominated the state for six decades. However, the new chief minister's pronouncements on the LTTE and its leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran, and the Centre's two-language policy suggest that the TVK is more a mutated version of the old Dravidian political lineage, and less a complete break with the past. This may ruffle his new admirers, but it could help Vijay and the TVK plug into the Tamil political ecosystem that has historically privileged social justice and linguistic nationalism over other agendas.

Vijay's views on the two-language policy is in continuation ...