A Ganesh Nadar, a journalist for a quarter of a century, is the author of two books. You can e-mail the author at ganeshnadar@rediffmail.com
'Seven months he has been in jail for no reason.'
'By birth, you are not superior or inferior to anyone.' 'There are millions of people who want to have a casteless society. I am one of them.'
'The Megalithic period had a significant feature. Their pottery uses black and red clay.' 'Another identifying feature is that all Megalithic burial sites are oriented towards the east.'
'In 1983, my father T Rama Rao made Andha Kanoon with Rajinikanth.' 'Amitabh Bachchan was reluctant to come on board as a guest star, as Rajinikanth was a southern star.' 'But when my father pitched it to him, he came on board.' 'The movie ran for 200 days.'
'Any person who wants to enter this service should have a single object of serving the public irrespective of hindrances.'
'You can do anything after retirement. You have to pursue it. You have to take it up as a challenge.'
'The Mount Everest Base Camp is at a height of 5,364 metres and no child with Down Syndrome has trekked till there at such a young age; Avnish is only seven years old.'
'The cops must know they cannot foist false cases against anyone.'
'Jobs for transgender people should be advertised widely and they should be motivated to join. There should be reservations for them.'
'If I had earned money as an MLA, I would have been sad to lose my seat.' 'But I have not earned money. Instead, I have earned respect.'
'The people who stay with us were not born orphans; they have been abandoned.'
His time will be divided 50-50, he says, between his autorickshaw and his work as mayor.
'He has divine power... For our future, safety is in the hands of Modi.'
Priya Rajan is Chennai's third woman mayor, and at 28, its youngest.
'Politics is in a mess. Good people have to join to clean it up.'
'They are taking the people of the country for granted.'
When Praggnanandhaa plays, he does not allow his confidence to fluctuate, irrespective of who his opponent is, says his father.
'Jail was very crowded, we were 56 people crammed together. All 56 of us had to use only one toilet'
Two years ago, Inspector Stephen Jose told his colleagues he was going to participate in a body-building contest. He was 48. They didn't think he was serious. But he was. In January 2022, he became Mr Tamil Nadu.
Adman Rahul da Cunha fondly remembers his uncle, who passed into the ages on January 7.
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