Thanks to the almost non-stop rains over the week across Chennai, schools have declared holiday and offices and establishments have extended their staff, even if they happened to be pizza delivery guys, work-from-home option. And with electricity, DTH and internet too down in many places, several households are staring at a strange, rarely-experienced predicament: Of having to interact with other… Read more →
This happened to you last year: You and your family set out for some eleventh-hour emergency supply of kurti/kajukatli/jeans/jalebi and were trapped in a traffic that seemed stuck from previous Deepavali and you firmly told yourself that next year you would do all your shopping much early and not be laid low by the maddening traffic. Tell you what, it’s… Read more →
An international cricket match was back at the M A Chidambaram Stadium this week after a gap of two years, and as ever it was a memorable affair as the stands were packed and at crucial moments the enthusiastic fans expressed their appreciation of the good cricket dished out by India and South Africa by vociferously shouting —- not for… Read more →
While the rest of India is discussing the Bihar elections, we in Tamil Nadu, who always have our priorities right, are debating the all-important polls to the Nadigar Sangam (Nadigar Sangam in English), which is widely accepted as the apex body of actors due to two facts 1) its words are taken as final in industry-related issues. 2) There is… Read more →
Mumbai: In a major embarrassment to the Modi government at the Centre, a day after writer Nayantara Sahgal returned her Sahitya Akademi award, another well-known author has gone one step further and written to the Nobel Prize Committee to not consider her name for the literature prize this year. The feisty writer’s gesture is seen as a powerful symbolic show… Read more →
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