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
'OPS is the first person in history to ransack his own party office.'
Even as the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam's general council meeting got underway in Chennai on Monday morning, endorsing Edappadi K Palaniswami as the interim general secretary, the rival O Panneerselvam faction staged a well-planned coup at the party headquarters in Royapettah, central Chennai.
'One quiver cannot have two different kinds of arrows.' 'The party cannot progress with two leaders.'
'If you don't have an heir, leave alone heaven, you don't even have a place in hell.'
'I must have done a lot of good deeds because of which I was getting the chance to talk to such a mahapurush.'
'The focus is on to cultivate a culture of respect.'
'Sometimes we use political pressure and sometimes political acumen to get what we want.'
'With just 2.4 per cent of global landmass, India houses six to eight per cent of planetary biodiversity and hence is a prime target of wildlife criminals.'
'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.
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