“Muraiseydhu kaapaatrum mannavan makkatkku Iraiyendru vaikka padum” Thus says Kural (couplet) 388 of the Tirukkural, one of the greatest works ever written on ethics and morality by Thiruvalluvar. This means that ...
Tamil Nadu and its polity is like the game of Cricket in India. The whole political spectrum like the cricket team is treated as a religion. And few politicians akin to ...
Tamil Nadu’s golden age was a 1000 years ago and ever since the end of that age, the region never saw any large scale military-imperial revival. The Cholas were the last ...
Given there is no expiry date for the career of a politician, people expect to be in control of whatever they control, till their last breath. Only few wise ones could ...
Mahatma Gandhi thought “All English-knowing men have enslaved India”, and said in 1918 “Unless Hindi was given national status, all talk of Swarajya was useless”. He established Dakshin Bharat Hindi Prachar ...
TIME has an annual marketing event during which they select 'Person of the Year'. And, the person gets selected by editors of the magazine and not by vote. If popular votes ...
Cho Ramaswamy, veteran journalist, writer, actor, political leader(?) and philosopher had died in Apollo Hospital, a day after his (sort of) protégé Jayalalitha died in the same hospital. Who was Cho? ...
When Jayalalitha cruised to power in the recently held Tamil Nadu assembly elections for the fifth edition, it demonstrated complete hegemony of a party at that given point of time. That ...
The day was March 25, 1989. A little over two months ago, elections had been held in the Southern state, the first after the death of MGR, who had been Chief ...
“Demonetization is Independent India’s biggest scam ever. Modi will use the money deposited by common people in banks to write off loans worth ₹8 lakh crore for his corporate friends.” This ...
‘पूत कपूत तो का धन संचय, पूत सपूत तो का धन संचय’ Meaning: If the son is bad, why to accumulate money? If the son is good, why to accumulate money? ...
A girl was born into an Iyengar family with both grandfathers working, one for the Mysore Kingdom and the other for Hindustan Aeronautics. But her father – despite being a lawyer ...
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