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My dear farmers: Please ponder the link between chemical pesticides and suicides
My dear farmers: As mentioned in my previous column, I am restarting our conservation through this space. I must thank you for all the emails, phone calls and WhatsApp messages expressing support. Many suggested I write about their problems. I fully understand your anxiety and eagerness in...
An experiment in collective farming promises to empower women
In many villages, the support system for single, adult women is not very effective. Women who remain single, either because their husband died or were abandoned by their family, typically own no land or just small rain-fed land parcels. Unable to invest on their land and without capacity to...
Flaws in online counselling: After 1st round, 167 do not get seats of their choice
In the engineering online counselling for students who got cut-off of more than 190 marks, 3,431 students did not participate in the first round of counselling. But it is worth mentioning that despite these many seats remaining vacant, as many as 167 students did not get the course of their...
At this Kancheepuram village school, students learn not to roll their R’s so they get their English accents right
At this Tamil-medium elementary school in Nellikuppam, Kancheepuram district run by the Tamil Nadu government, teacher S M Iyyappan considers English a foreign language. So much so that he teaches it in such a way that students learn to speak it like how the British and the...
One-third of fishing boats released by Sri Lanka can be re-used, but repair costs loom
Nambu Rajkumar of Rameswaram had just bought a new boat. But, even before he could start repaying the loans he took for the boat, the Sri Lankan navy seized it. “In July 2016 our boat got captured. That was the only means of our livelihood. After it was seized, I came under terrible stress. I...
650 years ago an inscription recorded Madrasapatnam: So the British were just a footnote in city history
July 21, 2018, marks the 651st anniversary of the Madrasapatnam inscription of Kamapana II at Penneswaramadam in Krishnagiri taluk, Krishnagiri district. The inscription on a rock surface near the Pennaiyar river dated July 21, 1367 established that Madrasapatnam, Madras or ancient Chennai had...
The tree whisperer: Meet Maram Thangasamy whose tender loving care for trees includes talking to them
Lucky are those who find their purpose in life. Many think their purpose is to earn, raise a family, have a house and enjoy material things. Some, however, want to care for people and things around them. For them, the society, the environment, and the whole world are important, so future...
Ramesh Vinayagam: Film composer set to make a mark as Carnatic vaggeyakara through concert
Inmathi.com launches today its new Forum -- a community for music lovers, with an interview featuring film composer Ramesh Vinayagam who presents an exclusive Carnatic concert with 30 leading musicians who will also render some of his own compositions this evening at Sir Mutha Venkatasubba Rao...
Vocational education being newly introduced for Class 9 students as optional subject
Starting this year, vocational education is being introduced as an optional subject for the IX standard students. With a view of making the students obtain talent-related education along with their normal curriculum, this scheme is being introduced as an experimental measure, in 67 Government...
Superstar’s political business: Ahead of film releases, Rajni backs governments and gets GOs passed to help boost ticket sales
Rajinikanth’s statements indirectly justifying police action in the Thoothukudi Sterlite issue, praise of some work by the AIADMK government especially that of School Education Minister K A Sengottaiyan, are typical strategies of the actor to have the State government on his side since he needs...
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