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Tamilnadu to benefit by Centre – state thaw A dedicated Elevated Expressway from Chennai Port to Maduravoyal upto NH 4 was awarded in 2009 with a total project cost of Rs.1815 crore. The 19 km highway is to consist of an elevated section of 17.5 km — from the Southern […]

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Tamilnadu: Rage Yes, Reprisal Not Yet Even as popular media painted Tamilians as separatists, the ground level reality is hearteningly different. Pulwama reaction provides a case in point. Moksha Deepams were lit across the state atop temples and special prayers were conducted for our martyrs. A “Never Forgive, Never Forget” […]

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A Chennai Kids’ Choir Takes Our Culture To The World Stage  “Our kids should sing in unison the compositions of Subramanya Bharati, Namakkal Kavignar and Adi Shankara in front of international audiences. We can take our culture across oceans this way”, says Rajarajeshwari of Mandaveli Chennai, and adds that it […]

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Jai ho Captain! The Indian Langadi team has first won the Asian Cup under the captainship of Deva Sitham, a software Engineer with TCS and hails from Ramanathapuram. He was recently invited to receive the Dalit Acheiver award in SRM University. Self professed Dalit leader Thol.Thirmumavalavan was in the chair. […]

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He Took Temple Scenes To The Doorsteps Of The Devout Silpi ‘lived’ in temples; he used to wait till all the devotees leave after their darshan; late in the night he would look in to the deity and bring out extremely amazing depth and exquisite texture of every sculpture using […]

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These kids do not come from “posh” schools ISRO will launch a student-built satellite called Kalamsat this year. Kalamsat is the world’s lightest and smallest satellite built by a student start-up from Chennai and is named after the former President. In another event, SOuth India Sciences Fair-2019,S Parthiban and VM Akashvaran, students […]

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A Dalit Spiritual Leader’s Vision Of Hindu Unity Swami Sahajananda, whose birth anniversary falls on January 27 was born in an downtrodden community in Pudhupakkam next to Arani, in 1890. All his life he fought for the betterment of the “thirukulathaar” (dalit families described as such by Sri Ramanujacharya). Swami […]

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Tamil People Demand Sanskrit In Curriculum In the August presence of over 4,000 members of public, a resolution demanding state government to set up a Sanskrit department in every university in the state was passed. The occasion was the valedictory session on January 6, 2019, of the Dakshin Tamilnadu Samskrita […]

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January 2, 2019 Independence 5 Years Before August 15, 1947? For those diligent 7,500 schoolboys and girls who ran in a mini Marathon at Villupuram on December 30, 2018, it was a ‘run for independence’. The children were well aware that August 15 is the Independence Day. The Independence they […]

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What Tamilnadu Media Found Out: Society Does Not Yet Lack Values Media in Tamilnadu found out last week that society does not lack values after all. A couple of positive stories that commanded coverage are as follows: A tea shop owner has written off all dues that his customers owed […]