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Wide roads, Metro to up Chennai suburbs’ urban appeal
The Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) has decided to widen several roads in the suburbs around the metropolis, which are currently no bigger than village streets and are heavily encroached by commercial establishments. Whether it is Anakaputhur, Kundrathur, Poonamallee,...
Can India play a role in Lankan economy’s recovery?
Development sector professional Deivanayagam Devanand of Jaffna, Sri Lanka is the former chief of the Jaffna Media Development Centre and is currently the Jaffna district secretary of the Sri Lankan NGOs Confederation. During the civil war in the island nation, he was instrumental in...
Plant the seeds of good health in your diet
Seeds are a powerhouse of nutrients. After all, a seed contains a latent tree. In recent years, a variety of seeds such as flax seeds, hemp seeds, chia seeds, sunflower seeds and the age-old sesame seeds have become popular as superfoods. How do these help improve health and how must you...
Is Udhayanidhi the new Puratchi Thalaivar?
Kalaga Thalaivan is a taut thriller that could potentially work for multiplex audiences. It has a complex storyline and a grand ideological premise. It grandly declares that corporates rule Indian life and that includes all political parties. KT has Thiru, aka Udhayanidhi, as the rebel whose...
Vijay film Varisu sets off Tamils vs Telugus politics
Actor Vijay’s film Varisu has run into a couple of political problems even before its Pongal release — one interstate and the other within his own film fraternity in which real-life politicians hold the strings. As the Telugu festival Makar Sankranti falls on the same day as Tamils’ Pongal,...
Eye donation in Tamil Nadu his life’s work
Sometimes even the most mundane of activities, like reading a magazine at a barber shop, could end up being the trigger for bigger things in life. It happened in his youth to 70-year-old Jegatheeswaran who lives in Singanallur, Coimbatore. Jegatheeswaran had just finished schooling when one day...
BJP’s plans in TN hit roadblock as EPS sticks to his guns
Former Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami (EPS) has firmly rejected BJP’s plans to bring together all the warring AIADMK factions as one, diminishing the saffron party’s already slim chances of winning a few seats in Tamil Nadu during the 2024 general election. A contest among the warring...
Udhayanidhi’s Kalaga Thalaivan stirs up Sterlite memories
Udhayanidhi Stalin’s film Kalaga Thalaivan (Rebellious Leader) directed by Magizh Thirumeni revolves around a chemical factory and whistleblowers, and one cannot help but see similarities with the Thoothukudi Sterlite issue. The screenplay is based on true stories, such as Wikileaks...
From the attic — a Tamil-Sanskrit magazine from 1899
The paran (attic) is home to old bottles, vessels gifted by grandmothers and great-grandmothers to their grand-daughters for their weddings, easy chairs that used to keep the grandfathers, mostly couch potatoes comfortable in the twilight of their life, four-legged chairs bereaved of one-leg, a...
Pongal Releases: Ajith vs Vijay Rivalry peaks
Social media is abuzz with the battle cries of fans of actors Vijay and Ajith, as films of the Kollywood ‘rivals’ have been announced for Pongal releases. Almost nine years since Vijay and Ajith last fielded their horses in the festival release race, Ajith’s Thunivu and Vijay’s Varisu are set...
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