Overview

• The Tamil Nadu chief minister announced the Oxford events and the release of two books marking 100 years of the Self-Respect Movement.
• His week-long itinerary runs August 31 to September 8 across Germany and the U.K., with Cambridge industry meetings and a London student interaction on September 5.
• The Self-Respect Movement and its Legacies Conference on September 4–5 is co-hosted by St Antony’s College and Balliol College at Oxford.
• Stalin says the trip continues efforts to attract fresh investment and cites ₹10 lakh crore drawn during previous overseas visits.
• Opposition parties AIADMK, BJP and PMK dispute the investment figure and have demanded a white paper detailing gains from past trips.