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An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind - Mahatma Gandhi

smash and grab: tale of two diaries..

Nearly 90 years ago, a veteran freedom fighter from Tamil Nadu wrote in his prison diary about a major issue worrying him — corruption. He wondered how the corruption he witnessed inside the prison could vanish overnight if India achieved …


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Kanimozhi :The ‘Other’ Advantage

Kanimozhi is the child of the ‘other woman’ and that has both made and marred her life. Her father, M. Karunanidhi, is known to be obsessed with the Tamil epic Silappadhikaram, the love triangle between Kannagi, her husband Kovalan and …


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Jaya lobs nuke potato into PM’s court

J Jayalalithaa has become the first Tamil Nadu chief minister to challenge the Centre’s nuclear policy. By saying that she has written to PM Manmohan Singh to temporarily halt all work at the Koodankulam nuclear project until all issues are …


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read voters’ mind

ANGER AGAINST corruption is now back on the national agenda thanks to Tamil Nadu Assembly results. This state has been decisively voting against corruption over the last several decades. The defeat of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) in 2011 is …


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TN polls: money as candidate

In Tamil Nadu, the main opposition party today seems to be the Election Commission (EC). In an unprecedented statement at a poll rally, Tamil Nadu chief minister M. Karunanidhi appealed to the Centre to rethink the powers conferred on the …


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A Pandora’s box of freebies this season

Karunanidhi and Jayalalithaa have started behaving like the famous Ranganathan Street vendors. The ‘buy one get one free’ slogan of the street vendors has been modified into a political slogan ‘Give one vote. Get everything free’. In their one-upmanship, Jayalalithaa …


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Let us celebrate Fools’day !

Manufacturing dissent Let us celebrate Fools’day ! Two grand alliances have been formed in Tamilnadu based on survival principle very succinctly expressed by dalit leader tirumavalavan : “Alliances mean ‘I take your votes. you take my votes. Not I take …


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The revival of M.G.Ramachandran

It is nearly a quarter century since MGR alias M G Ramachandran, the charismatic actor-politician died (1917-1987) but his name still evokes a huge response particularly during election time. No party with even a single candidate dare criticise MGR’s rule …


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Shielding the corrupt and the unruly

With Spectrum hogging the national attention space, another national disaster suffers in ignorance and indifference. The Neros of Tamil Nadu Karunanidhi and Jayalalithaa are playing different tunes to different sections to woo their votes while Tirupur burns. Tirupur has been …


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DMK and Congress repeat a farce-tragedy

Politics breeds strange bedfellows, goes an adage. What is unsaid is that such bedfellows are also shameless. Immediate illustrations are the Congress and the DMK. DMK patriarch Karunanidhi’s public speech immediately after Andimuthu Raja’s arrest went beyond his usual saviour-of-Tamils-and-Tamil-pride …


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  • அணு உலைகள் பற்றி இந்தியா என்ன செய்ய வேண்டும் ?

    • கூடங்குளம் உட்பட புதிதாக எதையும் ஆரம்பிக்கக் கூடாது. ஏற்கனவே உள்ளவற்றை படிப்படியாக மூடவேண்டும். (53%, 206 Votes)
    • கூடங்குளத்தில் கட்டிவிட்ட இரண்டோடு நிறுத்திக் கொள்ளலாம். படிப்படியாக எல்லா அணு உலைகளையும் மூடவேண்டும். (32%, 125 Votes)
    • அணு மின்சாரம்தான் சரி. மேலும் பல உலைகளைத் தொடங்கவேண்டும். (15%, 61 Votes)

    Total Voters: 392

  • இந்த இணையதளம் காந்தி பிறந்த நாளான 2 அக்டோபர் 2008 வியாழன் இரவு இந்திய நேரம் 9.11 மணிக்கு இயங்கத் துவங்கியது.