Pongal isn’t just a harvest festival; it’s a four-day sensory overload where the steam from a clay pot competes with the smoke of the Bhogi bonfire, and the aroma of jaggery is often eclipsed by the smell of butter popcorn in a packed cinema hall.
PMK: A Father-Son Mango Shake and Bitter Aftertaste!
Pundits may claim that the PMK’s latest leap into the AIADMK-BJP combine was expected, but then with the Ramadoss clan, one can never be too sure.
Thirupparamkundram: From Pillar to Post – Verdict
By upholding a single judge’s directive permitting the lighting of the Karthigai Deepam on the ancient Deepathoon pillar at the hilltop, the division bench reaffirmed something more fundamental than a ritual
As a hero turns villain
Tamilnadu’s trysts with tragedy continues. The latest is a Actor-politician Vijay’s rally that has so far claimed thirty eight lives, 8 children and 16 women…
MGR’s life was a song
I don’t want to talk about MGR as a CM, a subject that deserves a thorough and ‘critical’ study. Rather, today’s topic is what made MGR the CM: songs…
Festival of Lights: Some sidelights
The phrase ‘Hindu mythology’ is a misnomer, invented by muddled or motivated minds. The fact that modern archaelogical tools or anthropological studies
‘Neo’ Robin Hood Rahul’s unkindest cut on Manmohan Singh
Hidden in plain sight in the Congress manifesto 2024 is this bombshell, rather a boomerang. Under the head ‘Economy’, there is a declaration in bold print: ‘TIME FOR A RE-SET’.
Time for a time-check
We don’t usher in, or step into, the new year. It dawns upon us, come Jan, come what may. Time and tide wait for none and are not certainly heralded by a mere flip of a new calendar.
Water’s Woes
My name is water. The need to introduce myself are many and in the current context in Chennai, most urgent.
Adieu, actor!
Lord Brahma does not make ‘ em any more. The Creator, apparently, exhausted all his energies and imagination in creating Sivaji Ganesan, who, to put it very simply, will remain the only one of his kind.
