The South Reports

Connect with us:
Home » Archives: jaya

  1. Thirsty Jaya asks Kiran for water

    Posted by
    / March 25, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Tamilnadu has gently nudged Andhra Pradesh to release 4 TMC feet (four thousand million cubic feet) of water from the Kandaleru reservoir. This is as per the Krishna water agreement under which AP has to release this water between January and April to Chennai. The agreement gives 12 TMC feet...

  2. `The Burning Train’ starring Mamata Banerjee

    Posted by
    / 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....

  3. Jaya goes green

    Posted by
    / February 24, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Tamilnadu is going green on Jayalalithaa’s birthday today. The CM, clearly to avoid any controversy, has asked party cadre to launch an afforestation programme, by planting 64 lakh saplings. This, officials say will increase the state’s green cover from 21 to 30 per cent. Two lakh saplings will be planted...

  4. Happy Birthday, Ms Jayalalithaa !

    Posted by
    / February 21, 2012 / 1 Comment
    Source : Whispers in Tamilnadu The entire Chennai city is being illuminated with hoardings for the birthday bash of Jayalalithaa, which falls on February 24. This despite Amma asking her partymen not to celebrate her birthday and instead help the poor and the needy. It appears that the Central government and...

  5. Jayalalithaa : The Godmother?

    Posted by
    / February 11, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Source: Whispers in Tamilnadu It looks like a scene straight out of Mario Puzo’s ‘God Father’. But unlike the Sicilian Mafia’s operations where muscle men are used to finish-off enemies, Amma’s uses the state machinery to silence her ‘friend turned foes’. Jayalalitha appears to be determined to decimate her enemies and...

  6. Rules for becoming a Thalaivar and forming a Kazhagam

    Posted by
    / August 9, 2011 / 4 Comments
    By Raamesh Gowri Raghavan After an in-shallowness (the sort of study that is the exact opposite of in-depth) study of Tamil Nadu’s political scene, I have managed to make a few guidelines for forming a political party and gaining followers: 1. Grow a moustache and become a Kollywood Hero. For...

  7. The disunited colours of Tamilnadu politics

    Posted by
    / March 6, 2011 / 1 Comment
     By T S Sudhir Ghulam Nabi Azad’s health portfolio clearly wasn’t concerned with keeping the DMK-Congress alliance in the pink of health. It is obvious the wily politician from Jammu & Kashmir deliberately kept shifting the line of actual control in the DMK-Congress marriage. He knew it would upset Dr Muthuvel Karunanidhi....

Archives