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  1. Nithyananda in the dock over tiger skins

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    / June 26, 2012 /
    It would seem Godman Swami Nithyananda’s troubles with the law will just not end. The Madurai police have raided Madurai Adheenam where he is the newly appointed junior pontiff. This was after Nithyananda was booked under the Wildlife Protection Act because he allegedly sits on tiger skin and elephant tusks....

  2. Swami and Friends. And foes too

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    / May 12, 2012 /
    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...

  3. Alagiri vs Stalin

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    / April 21, 2012 /
    Out of power, the fight between Karunanidhi’s son is out in the open. After the DMK High command issues show cause notices to 17 of his supporters in Madurai for skipping a public meeting addressed by M K Stalin (who is also DMK treasurer), Alagiri questioned the legitimacy of the...

  4. Match-fixing, Madurai style !

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    / January 23, 2011 / 2 Comments
    Landing in Madurai, my hometown, it seemed the entire town was out to get married. As Tamilnadu gets set to catch poll fever, these young couples are hogging as much of the airspace, pavement space and wallspace in Madurai and Theni as the politicos themselves. It is almost as if...

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