Tamil Nadu governor is lighting fires the BJP cannot control

The Tamil Nadu governor has brought together all the potentially combustible elements of Dravidian politics, which accommodative democratic processes had doused

Bharatiya Janata Party's governors in opposition-ruled states have been controversy's favourite children as they amplify the BJP's ambitions for complete political control of India. However, even among them, Tamil Nadu governor RN Ravi stands out. No other governor has gone to the extent of censoring tributes to well-established political icons, told the Tamils to rename their state or suggested that their culture is regressive.

Ravi is a retired Kerala-cadre Indian Police Service officer who spent most of his career in the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Intelligence Bureau, two institutions ruined by trying to second-guess the government in