How Jayalalithaa became Amma for masses, despite having many flaws?
Dr. Jayalalithaa is no more, creating a huge vacuum in the TN political space, people could hate her or worship her but nobody could ignore her! Such was the aura that ...
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The episode that launched the era of Amma
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: Let’s talk about inconvenience it caused
Let's talk about inconvenience, given it happens to be the trending word ever since the government announced demonetization. The word inconvenience is a hit among the liberals and stooges of the ...
What makes the Indian Judiciary so agonizingly slow?
Have you noticed that when anyone is caught (especially someone with a certain amount of power or wealth or both), a common phrase used is, “The Law will take its own ...
The enigma that Jayalalitha is
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 ...
Does Kaveri issue have a reasonable solution?
The heated dispute over the Kaveri River has divided the populations of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu for more than two centuries, and to an extent that each generation of people alive ...
Cauvery Issue: What roles do DMK and LTTE play in it?
I shall draw a minor but effective comparison between the Cauvery, Krishna and the Godavari (which is termed as the Dakshin Ganga) which will convey how silly the dispute actually is. ...
Cauvery Issue: Less about water, More about votebank politics
The recent Supreme Court ruling on September 6th 2016 for the release of 15000 cusecs of Cauvery River water to Tamil Nadu has triggered the century old water sharing dispute between ...
Did you hear Mariyappan’s story? What’s your new excuse now, Barkha?
9th September 2016, Friday shall go down in the sporting history of INDIA as another historic day, when para high jumper Mariyappan Thangavelu jumped high a staggering 1.89 m, only 7 ...
SRM university chancellor TR Pachamuthu arrested for allegedly cheating over 100 students
TR Pachamuthu, chancellor of SRM University was arrested recently. SRM University, Tamil Nadu advertises in all leading national publications about the standard of education provided in their institutions and students from ...
Drinking and Driving claims another life, and raises the same old questions
Late on Wednesday night in Bangalore, a 26 year old woman Bhavatarini, in an inebriated state, crushed down a 50 year old pedestrian Subramani to death, while another pedestrian escaped with ...
Truth behind allegations against Isha Foundation – I
What really happened? In the past three weeks, various media outlets in Tamil Nadu were full of allegations about Isha Foundation, based out of Coimbatore. In the past two decades, I ...
