NEET (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test) was introduced to create a single, transparent, merit-based entrance exam for all undergraduate medical (MBBS) and dental (BDS) admissions in India, replacing the chaotic system of multiple state and central exams. What NEET Sought to Correct, Prevent, and Improve Eliminate multiple exams: Before NEET, students had to appear forContinue reading “Cutting out all the noise and bilious rhetoric: How to do an objective assessment of NEET?”
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The 3 afflictions of the Tamil Brahmin: “Doormat Syndrome”, “Whipping Boy’s Masochism” and “Ostrich Attitude”
Yesterday, when I first watched the viral video clip of Udhayanidhi Stalin’s speech in the Tamil Nadu Assembly on May 12, 2026, I could not believe it to be authentic. It looked prima facie a fake on social media. I hastened to go online to do an immediate Fact-Check. I was aghast in discovering thatContinue reading “The 3 afflictions of the Tamil Brahmin: “Doormat Syndrome”, “Whipping Boy’s Masochism” and “Ostrich Attitude””
Are you up to it, 😎👊 bro?! Here is a “PRIORITY TO DO LIST” for incoming Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Government
Based on my own assessment of the “State of the State of Tamil Nadu”, and as an ordinary voter and citizen, I am offering below gratis a “Priority To-do-List” for Vijay Joseph, both at the macro and micro level theatres of Tamil Nadu economy and polity. 1. First of all there is the “Triple Threat” ofContinue reading “Are you up to it, 😎👊 bro?! Here is a “PRIORITY TO DO LIST” for incoming Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Government”
There can’t be a disenfranchised population of 66 million in the world’s largest democracy: What the Supreme Court can do about it.
The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls under the Election Commission of India has led to the removal of roughly 6.56 crore names from the draft electoral rolls across 12 states and Union Territories. While the Commission frames this as a technical cleanup—striking off duplicate entries, non‑citizens, and those restored as deceased—the human realityContinue reading “There can’t be a disenfranchised population of 66 million in the world’s largest democracy: What the Supreme Court can do about it.”
Here’s why PM Modi remains mum on the ongoing Us-Israel War against Iran
https://youtu.be/LfGcX4XuZ5A?si=eI-TrBmS3Dw3JFoO The above video discusses the Middle East’s reaction to Iran’s attacks and the US’s role in the region. It is a very sober and sagacious assessment. It’s America that is the real villain of the piece here . It’s very clear what the larger American imperial strategic game here is : 1. The targetContinue reading “Here’s why PM Modi remains mum on the ongoing Us-Israel War against Iran”
The Carnatic Music world quietly forgot (maybe even forgave?) Kamal Hassan deriding Saint Thyagaraja… but not this feisty Muslim woman!
The whole world of Carnatic Music aficionados, institutions, Vidwans, Rasikas and musicologist should watch this video-clip below and hang their collective heads in shame and sin. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1DLUSD44eC/?mibextid=wwXIfr The Muslim woman castigates Kamal Haasan for having disgraced Sri Thyagaraja once when he spoke during an Instagram Live conversation with actor Vijay Sethupathi on May 4, 2020.Continue reading “The Carnatic Music world quietly forgot (maybe even forgave?) Kamal Hassan deriding Saint Thyagaraja… but not this feisty Muslim woman!”
“Whistle podu”: Is Actor Vijay “whistling in the dark” before elections?
https://open.substack.com/pub/narasimhanvijayaraghavan/p/the-symphony-of-the-whistle-a-high?r=22fqhg&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay The Whistle is not really such a great election symbol … in fact, it portends looming inauspiciousness in many of English idioms we know. Vijay the parvenu politician is all bravado and no real substance . His filmy glamour is only tinsel thick veneer. He probably senses his vulnerability in the upcoming elections. He’s not sureContinue reading ““Whistle podu”: Is Actor Vijay “whistling in the dark” before elections?”
“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”: William Shakespeare
When this biography above of EV Ramaswamy (aka “Periyar”) grabs a lot more readership and eyeballs in Tamil Nadu and in far away Cambridge than my own recently published book on Rt. Hon’ble Srinivasa Sastri does even in Mylapore, Chennai, India (see below), you might tend to say that it brings to mind at once a veryContinue reading ““Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”: William Shakespeare”
What’s the hallmark of a Sri Vaishnava “Kovil”? The “Rangarajan Narasimhan Doctrine”!
This debate is old, petty, stale, futile and reflects so poorly on the general cultural traits of the entire Sri Vaishnava community of Tamil Nadu. Sri. Rangarajan Narasimhan has made his name as an indefatigable firebrand activist for protection of Hindu temples in Tamil Nadu. I have great personal respect for him on that account.Continue reading “What’s the hallmark of a Sri Vaishnava “Kovil”? The “Rangarajan Narasimhan Doctrine”!”
சம்ஸ்கிருதம் – சில கேள்விகள்: A Few Questions about the Sanskrit language
சம்ஸ்கிருதம் – சில கேள்விகள் https://tamilhindu.com/2009/07/sanskrit-few-questions/ The above article written in Tamil contains many detailed historical, cultural, and political arguments supporting the philosophical, linguistic, and cultural integration of Sanskrit and Tamil, refuting claims of Sanskrit as an exclusively Brahmin language or a threat to Tamil. It highlights the coexistence and mutual enrichment of these languages inContinue reading “சம்ஸ்கிருதம் – சில கேள்விகள்: A Few Questions about the Sanskrit language”