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  1. DMK’s day out on July 4 in Jail

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    / July 3, 2012 / Leave a comment
    It is back to jail for the DMK-ites, most would snigger. The `fill the Jails’ agitation that will take place in Tamilnadu on July 4 is already giving jail staff nightmares, with very little space available. Usually in `taken into preventive custody’ demonstrations, those arrested are taken to the nearest...

  2. 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...

  3. DMK to boycott Pudukkottai bypoll

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    / May 3, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Jayalalithaa has formed a committee that virtually consists of her entire cabinet for the Pudukkottai assembly bypoll. She need not have bothered for the DMK and PMK have decided to boycott the June 12 election. Karunanidhi has alleged that the poll date was announced after consultation between AIADMK and some...

  4. Mum is the word

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    / April 30, 2012 / Leave a comment
    It is as if the ruling political establishment has taken a collective decision to press `mute’. The plumbers too have overnight turned an efficient lot and there are no credible leaks from North or South Block on what’s on the Congress mind as far as India’s next president is concerned....

  5. Kaun (nahi) banega Rashtrapati

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    / April 27, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The season when a mention in the newspapers or TV channels sends Presidential hopefuls and their families into a frenzy and a rush to stitch new bandhgalas or order new sarees is upon us. Sadly, no surprise names yet. APJ Abdul Kalam reportedly is open to a second term in...

  6. No AIADMK, no DMK in Indian delegation to Lanka

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    / April 15, 2012 / Leave a comment
    DMK chief M Karunanidhi has pulled out his party representative out of the Parliamentary delegation scheduled to visit Sri Lanka from 16-22 April to assess the resettlement and political process in the island nation. There was no use of such visits and therefore DMK would not be part of the...

  7. `Tamil New Year’ back in April

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    / April 13, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The Tamil New Year is back in April, the first month of the Tamil solar calender called `Chithirai’. This follows Tamilnadu chief minister J Jayalalaithaa reversing the decision by her predecessor M Karunanidhi who had changed the Tamil New Year to mid-January, coinciding with Pongal, the harvest festival during the...

  8. Spare me, says Kanimozhi

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    / March 23, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Kanimozhi has asked the Delhi High court to drop charges against her in the 2G case. Her lawyers argue that there is really no evidence against her that she conspired with the others who are being tried in the same case. Karunanidhi’s daughter spent six months in Tihar Jail before...

  9. `The Burning Train’ starring Mamata Banerjee

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    / March 15, 2012 / 5 Comments
    The Sun rises in the East. Dinesh Trivedi discovered yesterday that `his sun’ also set in the East. Over one hundred years after the capital of India shifted from Kolkata (then Calcutta) to Delhi, Mamata Banerjee’s Indianised version of the East India Company is threatening to gain control once again....

  10. India’s VRS season

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    / March 11, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The cacophony on Twitter and Facebook, and the media in general, would suggest India has nothing better to do than asking people to retire. The nation went into a collective orgasm as Rahul created a Dra-void in the Indian Test eleven. Strange are the ways of the fickle-minded Indian populace....

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