What is it that eventually did the DMK Chief in? Why, blood, of course. The obsessive affinity to a ministerial nephew and a mayoral son. And the shameless and indiscreet pursuance of their personal agendas as his own and his party ‘ s too. Was it not common knowledge that DMK meant Maran, beyond TN, in faraway Delhi and it would be son Stalin, if not now, then most certainly in the near future, in Tamilnadu?
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In these days of EVMs, whilst electoral news flows faster than the Cauvery ..no, make it Krishna ..or is it a clean Cooum or better still, Veeranam – none of them, for not one of them really had anything in them that flowed – where was I? ah yes, with election results inundating all and sundry at godspeed, it is little wonder that the days seem shorter.
With the curtains coming down on the Tansi and Pleasant Stay Hotel cases, one of the most acrimonious and closely contested legal battles in recent history has come to a dramatic end. But to deem the above as purely confined to the judiciary would be puerile.
The poet looked sorely out of touch and the script-writer was clearly fatigued. For one it was poetic injustice, while for the other it was the case of a script gone awry. Two of the most eloquent speakers of our times were found fishing for credible words and substance at the Marina yesterday and it is doubtful if they would have succeeded in even stirring the crabs on the beach out of their sleep.
What will the kettle do if the pot keeps calling it black? Just return the compliment and if possible add a few more spoonfulls of soot to make the pot look blacker. This is precisely what the tehelka-tarred BJP has done to the Congress which now appears as black as black could be.
Quid pro quo. The raison ‘ d etre of Indianness. Ah, well, let me switch to English. Does anyone do anything for nothing in India today? One may say it is an universal phenomenon, the quintessence of every human ‘ s behaviour – to expect something in return for every act, howsoever trivial it is.
As the earth beneath the fragile NDA edifice shook for the umpteenth time since1998, it is no coincidence that the epicentre has once again been Tamilnadu. Pundits may claim that the exit of the PMK was only expected, but then with Ramadoss, one can never be too sure.
There are occasions when patting oneself on one’s back is not only pardonable but necessary. Today, which marks the completion of eighteen years of continuous publication of News Today
What was all the while clandestine is official now, with none less than the CM of the state himself acknowledging it in his own style — by presenting yellow shawls!