On December 29, 2025, so-called journalist Arvind Gunasekar, a known Dravidianist/DMK supporter, wrote: “They have no concern or care for Tamil Nadu’s financial condition. The ‘women’s entitlement allowance’ scheme irritates them.
Next will be the ‘Pongal gift hamper’ scheme.
That’s all.”
The post was aimed at critics of the DMK government’s cash transfer schemes, dismissing concerns about Tamil Nadu’s financial health and portraying welfare scrutiny as political spite.
However, Gunasekar’s moral outrage appears to be highly selective.
In 2016, when the AIADMK government announced pre-election welfare measures, the same journalist had no hesitation in mocking the move. At the time, he wrote: “TANGEDCO debt at 81000 cr; now Jaya announces 100 unit free electricty in her manifesto… indeed ‘vision 2020’ is visible!”
Back then, fiscal responsibility mattered. Debt figures were highlighted. Populism was ridiculed. The same yardstick, however, has mysteriously vanished under the DMK regime.
Since the DMK came to power, Gunasekar has displayed neither the courage nor the professional integrity to question its poll promises, mounting debt, or corruption allegations. He has remained conspicuously silent on serious governance failures, including repeated attacks on migrant workers, assaults on passengers, and the deteriorating law-and-order situation across the state.
Notably, he did not publish a single post condemning or even questioning the DMK government after the brutal attack on a migrant worker, nor did he address the steady stream of reports on ganja penetration in schools, rising street violence, or administrative collapse. Issues that once provoked sharp commentary under a different regime now fail to elicit even a whisper.
In 2024, during Chennai’s floods, he publicly praised the DMK government’s “preparation” and “seamless coordination,” even as large parts of the city remained waterlogged.
In other instances, he openly endorsed DMK candidates with inaccurate credentials, and selectively amplified issues to attack the BJP while remaining silent on governance failures under the DMK.
Supporting the Dravidianist narrative, he even amplified a Hindustan Times report claiming that the Centre spent 17 times more on Sanskrit than on other classical languages, presenting it as evidence of bias without providing context. He repeated the headline figures on social media while omitting key facts that most Sanskrit spending goes toward maintaining three centrally funded Sanskrit universities established during the UPA era, and that regional languages like Tamil are primarily funded and administered by state governments.
In January 2025, Arvind Gunasekar intervened in the controversy over Governor RN Ravi’s walkout from the Tamil Nadu Assembly by publicly defending the DMK government and attacking the Governor. He claimed the Speaker alone was custodian of the House, justified the omission of the National Anthem at the start as “usual practice,” and portrayed the Governor’s protest as a political ruse. In doing so, he downplayed established constitutional protocol, ignored the Governor’s constitutional role, and reframed a national-symbol issue as an assault on Tamil identity.
What Arvind Gunasekar is doing is not journalism driven by public interest or accountability, but political loyalty masquerading as commentary. When power changes hands, so do principles. What remains constant is the silence; convenient, calculated, and telling.
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