Readers and well wishers often caution us that we should not get too obsessed with Veerappan, but the temptation to react to the brigand’s broadsides broadcast through his kept press is so overpowering. Be it the brigand media, now represented by two close contenders of the yellow hue,
Oh! No, not again!
One more cassette or was it a committed journo who could recite and reply the brigand’s views even better than a cassette? Either way, the CM was busy today too, listening to the now routine Va nakkam Veerappan,
Strange coincidences
I had described the White Paper on the Kovai blasts as a whitewash, in these columns yesterday. A minor update may be made as repeated readings of the document reveal that it is rather a grand
White paper or white wash
If there is anything noteworthy in the white paper submitted by the CM in the State assembly it is the government?s own addmission that, despite repeated warnings from the Central agencies about
In the grip of a quagmire
With the booting out of Buta from the Union cabinet, the present crisis appears to have abated though the prospect of fresh trouble is ever a real possibility, considering the fact that the court assembles almost everyday to transact its business.
Sauce for goose, but not so for gander?
Geese and Ganders should forgive me for drgging their fair name into this unseemly controversy. We have no choice, for their names have been immortalised to represent for posterity an elementary principle
Mid summer’s daydream
Marina Beach in Chennai was perhaps the most peaceful spot in the entire State when a series of bombs exploded in Kovai a couple of months back, killing over 60. I even remember it to be overflowing with humanity,
NT investigative team beards the lion in its den
I am already free, why do I deel amnesty: Veerappan
It was the dead of night and an eerie silence prevailed at the camp on the outskirts of Devil’s Domain, the forest where the dreaded and hence revered brigand Veerappan was said to be hiding or say
Testing times
“If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way”
In tune with the times
Respected, revered, feared…and tired Veerappanji,
Having come to learn through my media peers that you are on the lookout for Editors to negotiate surrenders and amnesty, besides securing for your bad self sorry, good self
