For Chennai to Thuraiyur, against the normal fare which ranges between Rs 450 and Rs 550, Rs 750 and Rs 1,045 is being charged for Wednesday (17 October). And worse, these have been displayed as ‘best deals’ and ‘discounted rates’.
Author: M Bhaskar Sai
A S Babu, who runs a small business, “I can certainly say our price is less when compared to what is offered online and we give the same quality. But we don’t have the financial muscle to do carpet bombing like the e-tailing giants with front-page advertisements in newspapers and television commercials. So we are taking the simple and cost-free route– social media.”
Saturday evening saw the first public meeting addressed by the actor-turned-politician’s eldest son Vijay Prabhakar, and Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam members feel their new leader has arrived.
The grand audio launch event of Sarkar in Chennai saw everyone, including the film’s producer and Sun Group chief Kalanithi Maran, hailing its protagonist Vijay as Thalapathi and this has not gone down well with a section of DMK members, who are venting their anger on social media.
Though sources say Karunas has the backing of DMK president M K Stalin and AMMK founder T T V Dhinakaran and his resolution against the Speaker would be backed in the Assembly by both parties, those in Mukkulathor Puli Padai, the actor-politician’s outfit, say Karunas is not being remote-controlled by anyone.
The baton of the DMK has been passed on to M K Stalin and the Congress, too, witnessed a leadership change late last year, with Rahul Gandhi being enthroned.
Like North Chennai films, the politics surrounding the area too is racy, full of twists and is mostly about one-upmanship. With AIADMK presidium chairman E Madhusudhanan, a strongman from the locality, triggering a fresh controversy by making charges against Minister and party senior D Jayakumar over the recently-concluded cooperatives elections, let’s check out what makes North Madras a hotbed of high voltage action.
A bomb was ticking in the AIADMK and it was prevented from going off in the last minute, at least for the time being, by Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami and Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam.
Though M Karunanidhi, the party’s late chief, was known for his ‘democratic’ style of functioning when compared to the ‘autocratic’ ways of his arch-rival J Jayalalithaa, Stalin may not fully toe the line of his father.