Counting the roadside idols on Pillayar Chathurthi (PC) day … night, rather, has always been a favourite pastime of mine, writes TR Jawahar in his PointBlank column
Author: T R Jawahar
DMK MP and former Minister A Raja has given us an impression that diseases like HIV and leprosy carry social stigma while he made a remark about Sanatana Dharma. Hope CM Stalin would undo the damage caused by his remarks, writes TR Jawahar
India’s federal structure provides for power to the Central Government for some major decisions and autonomy for States on many others.
There is a proverb in Tamil: The patient person will eventually rule the world.
This was really the mother of all polls, or rather, didi of all polls. As it turned out, it became didi’s polls, both before and after and all through.
Last year same time, when Covid was in its nascent stage and the nation under lockdown, the Government pompously announced a slew of economic measures of which only a few were of any worth to the people.
The burning fires singed my eyes and face. The billowing smoke shut out visibility allowing just blurred windows in instalments.
Delhi choking; Maharashtra gasping; UP breathless. Indeed, we viewers of national media are getting drowned by such news ceaselessly through the day.