For more than a month Kanimozhi, the daughter of the former Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi is in Tihar jail. Offence. She held 20% of share in Kalaignar TV and had taken about Rs.214 crores from a firm connected with 2G scam. She claims that it was a loan. But the facts were otherwise. It is a mystery that the maximum share holder in the Kalaignar TV Smt Dayalu Ammal is outside and has not even been questioned by the CBI. Justice demands that she should also be jailed. Or else Kanimozhi should be granted bail. It is felt that Congress is using the CBI and the courts to armtwist Karunanidhi who they feel has exploited the alliance to his advantage. By enjoying power solely in the State and also getting plum posts in the Centre. Now it is Kalaignar who is clinging on to the Congress and not the otherway round. He cannot withdraw his ministers from the Centre. If he does his son Alagiri and grand nephew Dayanidhi Maran would soon be behind bars. Now they cannot be touched beca...
There was much hype about the movie. It was explosive and it was anti reservation. Some Govts. banned it. The director went to Court against the ban. I saw the movie at a Theatre in Coimbatore when I went there. Scores of police personnel were deployed in front of the theatre as earlier the Vidhuthalai Chiruthai Katchi activists had torn the screen in the Theatre. The first half of the movie was gripping and the later was a masala one. I think the director's initial social commitment has been overtaken by commercialism. On the whole a movie to watch.
When Dharmapuram Adheenam announced that there would be pattinapravesam, meaning that the Seer would be carried in a palanquin by devotees, on May 22, the Dravida Kazhagam protested saying that the event should not happen as carrying a human being by fellow human beings is demeaning practice and appealed the Govt. to ban that event. Immediately the Government directed the RDO to issue orders banning the event and the order for the ban was issued. Immediately the BJP and other Hindu outfits termed the ban as interference in religious practice and wanted it revoked. The State president of the BJP Mr K. Annamalai even stated that he would personally go and lift the palanquin. In the midst, the representatives of the Seer met the Chief Minister and the Minister of HR and CE and appealed to lift the ban as there should not be any stoppage of the grand old practice. On heeding to the appeal, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu lifted the ban and allowed the event to go as scheduled...
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