English jurist William Blackstone who has penned commentaries on English laws has said in his book, "It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer". For ages, our society has followed the same principle as a yardstick for delivering justice. The Madras High Court recalled the...
After five years of competing with one another, India’s cities ranging from over 40 lakh people to under 25,000, are struggling to handle their municipal solid waste. The latest official figure for Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) being generated in a day in the country, given to the Lok Sabha in...
Brazil nut effect Let's do a small experiment at home. Take a glass; place two or three unbroken whole cashew nuts at the bottom. Fill two-thirds of the cup with smaller nuts such as peanuts or roasted Bengal gram. Now shake the glass well. Lo behold, you can observe the cashew nut raising up...
Jai Bhim for all its success and hard-hitting plot has run into a political controversy. The war of words is out in the open between PMK leader Anbumani Ramadoss and actor Suriya. Twitteratti is trending ‘We stand with Surya’ and JaiBhim hashtags as netizens are garnering support for the actor...
At some Rs 15,000 a square foot, Chennai's commons, including its lakes, are worth more dead than alive to a large number of speculators. The cost of this avarice has once again been brought home sharply by this year's monsoon. The rise of high value speculative real estate has led to the...
Chennai is already flooded even before North East monsoon gains momentum. For all the town planning and civic amenities projects undertaken by the government round the year and the lessons learnt in Chennai floods 2015, the city should be geared up to face rain related adversities. But it is...
So, what’s the movie Jai Bhim about? It’s a gripping courtroom drama. It’s a human story of a tribal woman’s fight for justice. It’s about an idealistic lawyer and his equally idealistic associates. It’s about police brutality, or rather criminality. It’s about the uncaring and cynical ways of...
Temples have played a big role in history. The reason for this is that temples in those days played a key role in overall administration as they also served as the treasury, king’s court, and so on. Historically, temples have always been owned by government rather than private individuals, nor...
Q) This project is a secret weapon project of Fermi Lab and India’s Atomic Energy agency. Why don’t they tell the truth? The powerful neutrino beams produced at Fermi Lab need to be received here in India. The Pottipuram site is 180 degrees away on same longitude as the lab in Chicago, USA....
Last month seven children escaped from the Government Juvenile Home in Chennai. When the guard dozed off for a short while early in the morning, these children, who were lodged in the reception centre of the home, managed to flee from the home. Among these seven, one belonged to Tamil Nadu...
