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  1. Early morning epiphanies

    Posted by Pooja
    / June 7, 2012 / 2 Comments
    “Morning Sunshine, wake up, go get ready…the maid is here…she needs to clean the floor…get up …” *SNORE* I groaned and pulled the blanket over my head to drown out the hustle and bustle of a typical Iyer household in the outskirts of Coimbatore. But I failed. There was a...

  2. Chess to be introduced in 32000 TN clubs

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    / June 6, 2012 / Leave a comment
    32000 clubs in Tamilnadu will now play chess on a regular basis. This was one of the announcements made after a meeting between World Chess champion Viswanathan Anand and Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa in Chennai today. The CM had earlier announced an award of 2 crore rupees for Anand....

  3. My Chennai sojourn

    Posted by Bhavana Upadhyaya
    / June 6, 2012 / 14 Comments
    I love my former city, Albuquerque — like that incredible love which did not end in marriage but remains in your heart as a sigh. Even today, I find myself tossing, yearning for her sight, an embrace. Chennai is my arranged marriage, fixed by destiny. And like that first year...

  4. Karunanidhi flexes his political muscles, retreats

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    / May 30, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The DMK would like the UPA to rollback, just like its leader, M Karunanidhi. DMK first decided to flex its political muscle by threatening to walk out of the UPA government over the petrol hike. Calling the hike “atrocious”, the DMK today spoke at length about the party voicing the...

  5. The day belonged to Jaya and Jaya

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    / May 16, 2012 / 1 Comment
    Jayalalithaa’s photograph is what readers of most national dailies, irrespective of which city they lived in, woke up to this morning. The Tamilnadu department of Information and Public Relations had booked six pages in all newspapers, estimated to have cost  25 crores to the exchequer. The ads spoke of the...

  6. Ajith – Cool, grey and Billa 2

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    / May 15, 2012 / 1 Comment
    Actor Jeeva was shooting inside the Madras Race Course and a large crowd had gathered, hoping to catch a glimpse. This was December 2007 and my cameraperson and I were waiting for Ajith Kumar to arrive, to record what was going to be his maiden interaction with a national TV...

  7. Swami and Friends. And foes too

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    / May 12, 2012 / Leave a comment
    In July last year, Swami Nityananda’s attempts to get his followers to levitate turned into a hopeless attempt at hopping. Levitation means `to rise or cause to rise into the air and float, in apparent defiance of gravity’. What his disciples ended up doing instead was to simply jump up...

  8. Vijay in `Rowdy Rathore’

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    / May 8, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Tamil actor Vijay will be seen in a Hindi film for the first time in `Rowdy Rathore’ directed by Prabha Deva. The song was recorded in a studio in Mumbai recently along with Akshay Kumar. Vijay has been directed by Prabha Deva in `Pokkiri’ in Tamil. These photographs courtesy vijayfansclub.com...

  9. Vijay smokes, Ramadoss on fire

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    / May 5, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Posters of `Thuppakki’ have actor Vijay smoking. That’s like showing a red rag to the PMK and former Union Health minister Anbumani Ramadoss who has protested against the violation of the ban on tobacco promotion. `Thuppakki’ stars Kajal Agarwal and is directed by A R Murugadoss of Ghajini fame. Incidentally,...

  10. `Mullaperiyar dam is safe’

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    / May 4, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Kerala received a setback with the Supreme court appointed 5-member monitoring committee ruling that the 119-year-old Mullaperiyar dam is safe. This vindicates the stand taken by Tamilnadu. (read blog : Mullaperiyar – A sponsored hysteria) The only relief that Kerala has got is that the committee has agreed on a...

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