
Welcome to this week’s Powertrip, a political newsletter exclusively curated for TNM and NL subscribers by Dhanya Rajendran, Shabbir Ahmed, Pooja Prasanna, and Nidheesh MK. This week, we bring you insider information on the buzz behind the next Director General of Police in Tamil Nadu, given that an election year is coming up. In Kerala, with the controversial PV Anvar contesting from TMC, Nilambur becomes a testing ground for what kind of politics the state may be drifting toward.