The nine-day Navarathri in South India, which is 10-day Dussehra in North India — days are shorter in North India due to global warming — is upon us now. This year’s Navarathri is doubly special because — religious almanacs say this phenomenon occurs only once in 144 years — it helpfully telescopes into Gandhi Jayanthi and brings along with it… Read more →
As a newspaper dedicated to hyper-local news in Chennai, this week we, with typical thoughtfulness, focus on Hurricane Irma that hit the American coast. Watching news of Hurricane Irma, with it about to flatten Florida, was mostly great fun. Now, don’t get us wrong. The hurricane effects were, of course, sad and scary, but just that the way the American… Read more →
Exasperated reader Panchabootham deplores state of journalism Dear Sir/Madam, Straightaway, I want to ask you whether there are any more journalists left in the newspaper industry or not. Is journalism like clerical work at the AGS Office these days? I have to pose these fundamental questions because I have been seeing a big newspaper palming off one person’s letters to… Read more →
School education system is the second most deeply debated topic in Tamil Nadu these days. The first, needless to say, even more hotly discussed subject, is: What Kamal tries to convey in his tweets. Nobody in TN, and we seriously believe this includes Kamal too, is sure about the contents of his tweets. It has reached a stage where many… Read more →
This week, with the RBI coming out with its annual report, the focus is back on demonetisation, which was clearly one of the tasks assigned to the Central government as part of Blue Whale challenge. The biggest takeaway from the annual report is that the RBI is still around. It is something that was not possible to say in the… Read more →
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