Mortal blow to an immortal saint

When great leaders die, it has become an Indian habit to bury their ideals, ideas and even their passions alongwith them. Former CM and the immortal heartthrob of millions of Tamilians, especially the downtrodden

A nation goes nutty!

India today is a very confused country. Indians would rank as the most distressed lot in the world, having no clue as to what is happening around them, be it politics, economy or their own neighbourhood.

Who really killed rajiv

With the Jain report once again getting tabled in the media before being leaked to Parliament, one cannot help wondering at the jinx that has got hold of this beleagured commission of inquiry.
From its very inception, it has trudged along from one controversy after another, with powerful men in and out of power wanting to scuttle it

Watch out for these anomalies, comrades!

Here are a few anomalies for the central staff unions to mull over. I have also attempted a few solutions, in tune with their maxim of minimum work, maximum compensation and endless agony to the people, which they

Workers of the nation, whom are you serving

One look at the government offices on a ‘working’ day would reveal the extent to which the country is in the grip of a labour terrorism that is taking a heavy toll of efficiency and productivity and eating into the nation’s

Belling the big cats

When the workers of the world united under Karl Marx, they really had nothing to lose except their chains. But the striking government staff of today who have rallied under the self proclaimed torch bearers of the long

Who is your enemy, my dear comrade?

For the nth time in recent years, the people of the country are being held to ransom by the employees of an essential service who have, as has become their habit, once again struck at the worst of moments when their work

For far too long!

It is not often that we come across CMs with as much regard for the chastity of their office and public conduct as our very rational incumbent of Fort St George. The moment Karunanidhi came to know of the indiscretion, on the

It’s calm only till the next bomb

Nelson’s eye, like Madras Eye, appears to be contagious. What was an affliction confined only to the DMK has surely spread to the BJP too if one were to read a meaning into the latter’s continued dithering on the use of Art.356