As a proud Tamilian myself, I too did feel more than just disappointment… I felt a bit of anger and hurt welling up too inside my heart when I read the news a week ago that the Central …. oops! sorry wrong terminology!…. the Union Government of India, more specifically, the Ministry of Defence, hadContinue reading “An R-Day abomination averted, thank God!”
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Don’t the Trustees of the Mudichur Ram-Anjaneya Temple, demolished by the GoTN yesterday, deserve the same rights as illegal slum-dwelling encroachers?
https://www.facebook.com/kannansastrigal.kannansastrigal.3/videos/1072305363340957/ A friend of mine —- an experienced retired high ranking public servant in the Government of India, after watching the video link on Facebook above that I had rather forwarded to him wrote to me as follows : QUOTE : Some basic facts about the video: It’s not in Tambaram as stated. It’s templeContinue reading “Don’t the Trustees of the Mudichur Ram-Anjaneya Temple, demolished by the GoTN yesterday, deserve the same rights as illegal slum-dwelling encroachers?”
Lord Rama and Saint Tiruvalluvar are not equal citizens in Chennai city?
IF THE MUDICHUR RAMAR TEMPLE DEMOLISHED YESTERDAY (December 10, 2022) WAS AN UNAUTHORISED ENCROACHMENT ON A CITY WATERBODY, PERHAPS ONE MAY ASK IF THE VALLUVAR KOTTAM, A TOURISTIC PUBLIC SPOT NOW BUT ERECTED BACK IN 1975-76 RIGHT IN THE HEART OF THE CITY WAS AUTHORISED ENCROACHMENT? I came across this interesting and rather nostalgic blogpostedContinue reading “Lord Rama and Saint Tiruvalluvar are not equal citizens in Chennai city?”
Sri Rangam and Tirumala: Temples or Political Battlegrounds?
Two separate bits of news on Pages 11 and 6 above respectively in THE HINDU today dt.12 Dec caught my attention while reading the newspaper this morning, since both these great temples in the state of Tamil Nadu occupy a very preeminent position in the hearts and minds of all Vaishnavite devotees and pilgrims allContinue reading “Sri Rangam and Tirumala: Temples or Political Battlegrounds?”
May the World Health Organization (WHO) be damned !
Currently, India’s own Covid vaccine COVAXIN after 3-stage trial is still awaiting approval/licensing by the WHO … it’s taken 110 weeks ! The same WHO approved Pfizer, Moderna and Sinovac vaccines in about 8 weeks ! The delay in WHO approving Covaxin seems to be deliberate attempt to malign Indian medical R&D … otherwise whyContinue reading “May the World Health Organization (WHO) be damned !”
THE PETTY-MINDEDNESS OF THE CONGRESS PARTY and the MENTAL SICKNESS OF A FARMER-CRUSADER
Mahendra Tikait’s son, Rakhesh, the great champion of farming commission-agents in Punjab , UP and Haryana who pretends to be crusader for Farmers all over India , has said that PM Modi fixed the India-Pakistan match in Dubai on 24 October. Read the news at this link below . Rakesh Tikait’s new brain wave: SaysContinue reading “THE PETTY-MINDEDNESS OF THE CONGRESS PARTY and the MENTAL SICKNESS OF A FARMER-CRUSADER”
“50 Shades of Federalism” in India
If you did read today’s THE HINDU , on almost every page you turned there you would have found either news report or analysis or Op-Ed on the theme of how the Constitutional holy cow of “Federalism” in India is getting destroyed by the ruling dispensation in the Union Government of the country. In theContinue reading ““50 Shades of Federalism” in India”