V — N Janaki

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”

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. v n janaki