This was one anniversary that was best forgotten but alas, the worst is now on public parade. Memories of Veerappan should have been interred with him, but a group of overzealous ‘Tamil champions’ have sought to resurrect him by exhuming his life and times. And they have sung his glory without regard to his gory trail of blood and mayhem.
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Beauty and the beast. Nature has both these mani-festations, but of late one only gets to see the latter the most. Recent quake is the latest addition to the long line of disasters that nature has left in its wake just in the past year.
Bedlam. Pandemonium. Tumult. Furore. Noisy scenes. One automatically associates these words with Pavlovian penchant to Parliament of India, the cosy habitat of that elite and exclusive club called People’s Reps.
As elections draw closer our politicos get into a frantic race for cornering issues. Inevitably all old wines too get repackaged in the melee. Vintage Tamil is perhaps the oldest wine available and little wonder that the neo-champions of the language, all the usual suspects minus the most prominent one, hit the streets recently with all the might that they could muster.
Tamilnadu’s tryst with tinsel town appears to have been sealed for posterity. With yet another adventurer from Kollywood launching his political party, there is nary any sign of the stardust settling down in this action-packed political theatre.
An independent media is of ten touted as the true barometer of a mature democracy. On that count, despite sustained attempts by various forces, the press in India has largely managed to retain its freedom and emerged unscathed.
Onions and Unions have this common habit of bringing tears to one’s eyes when cut up. But while in the case of onions the tears are worth the trouble, the latter can never justify the hardship that they routinely pose to the citizenry.
The classic clash, inevitable in a democracy, seems to be well and truly on. The Supreme Court’s angry remarks against the politicians for their untiring tirade against it are telltale evidence of the simmering feud between the two constitutional pillars. And the gauntlet has been picked and thrown back, too.
The chorus is at a crescedo. Every politician or party worth the name seems to have a quote of lament to offer on the quota issue in unaided private colleges. And why not? After all, the recent decision of the Supreme Court rejecting reservations in admissions to such institutions hits at the core of their existence and threatens their bread and butter.