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Today the kerala HC has ordered a compensation of Rs.75 laksh to the victims of the air crash in Mangalore. How will the Air India pay? It has itself asked loan from the Govt.? It is not paying salaries to its employees. Pension cheques issued by it get bounced. The kin of the victims can get satisfied by seeing Rs.75 lakhs only on paper.

The mango festival in Karaikal symbolishes an event in history where Karaikal Ammaiyar the lone woman nayanmar gave away a rare variety of mango to a Saivaite saint. This festival has an interesting legend behind it. Karaikal Ammaiyar whose original name was Punithavathi was given two mangoes of rare variety by her merchant husband. Soon after a Shiva devotee came to her house in the form of mendicant and asked for alms. She gave one mango to him. When her husband came to dine she served him with one mango she had. When her husband asked for the other mango she was taken aback as she had given it to the beggar. Soon she prayed to Lord Shiva and a mango appeared on her hands. Seeing this her husband deserted her considering her to be a supernatural being. She then prayed to Lord Shiva to take away her beauty following which her skin dried up and she became a nayanmar and was known as Karaikal Ammaiyar. Every year on full moon day in the Tamil month of Aani it is symbolic in Karaikal to...

Three blasts went off one at Zaveri Bazaar, one at Kabuthar Kahana near Dadar and one at Opera House on 13th July 2011 at Mumbai. Nearly 20 people died and more than 100 injured. Usual noises were made. The media went frenzy. The PM, Sonia Gandhi, LK Advani visited the injured. The ruling and opposition blamed each other. The people of Mumbai went back to their work as usual. Every one started appreciating the resiliance of Mumbaikars. the police say it is the handy work of Indian Mujaideen. The Govt. is non committal. The blast victims suffer in silence. Every thing is forgotten. A committee will be formed to look into the incident headed by a retired judge. The judge and his staff would be paid a fat salary. After months the Judge would submit a voluminous report running to hundreds of pages to the Govt. which would keep it in the library. There will be talk shows. All the while our nation fed on the poorest ration watch in sheer awe. Nothing changes life goes on. Aged insensitiv...

At last Rajnikanth is back after treatment hopefully in normal health. While he was in India and in hospital so many rumors were floating. That he was dead. That he had contacted an incurable disease and so on. Thankfully the Superstar has battled all this successfully. Soon after his recovery I do not understand why he telephoned Jayalalithaa and told her that she saved TamilNadu and then to Karunanidhi to take care of his health. What is the need to keep them in good humour. Only Rajni can answer

The treasure found in the Padmanabha Swamy temple at Trivandrum is estimated to be Rs.1 lakh crore. We should appreciate the honesty of the then rulers who never touched the wealth and considered them to be Lord's possession. Now what will happen to this wealth is anybody's guess. Let the Lord's treasure be saved from our politicians.

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...

Reports are coming that 98 Kgs. of Gold 107 Kgs. of silver and some 11 crores of cash were found in Sathya Sai Baba's private chamber, Yajurveda Mandir. One cannot understand why so much of cash and jewellery were lying in his chamber. Baba could have avoided taking these valuables and cash. He could have donated all these towards his social activities. Why he did not do so remains a mystery