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Idol hunter’s book promises to be a major exposé; he says shifting cases to CBI is a move to bury them
S Vijay Kumar, a chartered ship broker and cost accountant based in Singapore, has taken the unlikely avatar of an Indian Jones, tracking down idols stolen from ancient temples of Tamil Nadu. His upcoming book, Idol Thief, focuses on the case of Subhash Kapoor, the Manhattan-based art dealer...
Farmer throws down a challenge to engineers, runs his pump motor on punnai oil
Farmers across the state have come to depend a lot on groundwater through the use of pumps. Power to pumps has become an electoral issue since this power is sometime not good quality and is supplied irregularly. Pumps are also used to bring water from nearby lakes and open wells. In some...
1 lakh engineering seats likely to be vacant this year
After the fourth round of engineering counseling, some 1,15,390 seats have not been taken. For the fifth round of counseling, only some 26,000 students are remaining to participate. This would mean that at least 1 lakh seats would remain vacant this year. Some 36 colleges have not been selected...
On Independence Day, a Tamil nationalist discusses the Indian Union and Dravidian politics
Leader of Naam Tamilar Katchi Seeman has acquired a small but youthful support base in parts of Tamil Nadu with his Tamil nationalist platform. In this Q&A with inmathi.com, he fields questions on his political beliefs. As a Tamil nationalist, how do you see India’s Independence Day? Tamil...
Once a child labourer, now a proud business owner
Poverty forced Muthuraj to drop out of school and work for a living. At 24, he is a young entrepreneur, running a tractor service business in Dharmapuri district. Muthuraj belongs to Neruppur, in the Pennagaram zone of Dharmapuri district. His father Chinnamuthu and mother Valarmathi worked in...
Dear farmers: Here’s how a cotton farmer bucked the trend in Wardha and turned a profit
My dear farming friends: In “Please ponder the link between chemical pesticides and suicides”, I discussed the root cause of suicides in Vidarbha. Since then, I have received a number of mails and WhatsApp messages requesting me to share some successful case studies in the same region. I had to...
In a show of strength, Stalin demonstrates control of DMK, Alagiri marginalized
What began as a condolence meeting for DMK president M Karunanidhi at party headquarters, Anna Arivalayam, on August 14, 2018, ended up as a show of strength by working president and Karunandhi’s son M K Stalin, indicating that the party was almost fully behind him, while his estranged brother...
Carnatic Christian controversy: Music concert director says use of ragas in church devotionals is not new
Carnatic and bhajan singer O S Arun pulled out of the music programme “Aesuvin Sangame Sangeetham”, based on Carnatic ragas for Christian devotional songs on Christ, following threats from Hindu right-wing organizations which had hit out at Carnatic musicians for “betraying” Hindu religion and...
Days after Christian controversy, Nithyasree pulls down YouTube video of her Prabhakaran song that compared him with Lord Muruga
With the controversy of her singing of Christian songs in Carnatic music still raging, Nithyasree Mahadevan became the target of more trolling by right wingers on social media when a song she had sung early last year in praise of slain LTTE leader V Prabhakaran was dug up. In that song, she had...
Alagiri revolts against Stalin in OPS style, his family seeks due posts in new DMK team
In a stern message to DMK working president and brother M K Stalin, former Union minister M K Alagiri visited the Karunanidhi Samadhi on the Marina to vent his anger against Stalinisation of the DMK in O Paneerselvam style to indicate to the DMK family that he had kept his options open, and...
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