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Economic and Political Weekly (EPW), Vol. 49, No. 26–27, 2014 Author: Kanchana Natarajan Why it’s interesting: This paper examines V. N. Janaki (1923–1996) not just as a film actress or the wife of M. G. Ramachandran (MGR), but as a significant political actor in Tamil Nadu’s Dravidian politics. Janaki was the first woman Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (for a brief 24 days in 1988), yet her role is often minimized or sensationalized in mainstream narratives.

Here’s an interesting and historically significant paper related to (also known as V. N. Janaki Ramachandran ): Paper Title: “The Tempest and the Taming of the Shrew: Gender and Performance in the Politics of V. N. Janaki” v n janaki