Fri, Apr 24 11:46 PM
Mumbai, April 24 (IANS) The Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group has alleged a 'conspiracy' by 'possible business rivals' to murder company chairman Anil Ambani after pebbles and gravel were found in the gear box of his helicopter and demanded a probe into the 'sabotage'. The Mumbai police Crime Branch Friday evening decided to take over the investigations.
The Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group wrote a strongly-worded letter to Chief Minister Ashok Chavan, alleging 'a conspiracy to murder' its chairman Anil Ambani and demanding a thorough probe into the incident.
Announcing that the Mumbai Crime Branch was taking over the probe, Joint Police Commissioner Rakesh Maria told reporters late Friday evening: 'We have asked the local police to transfer the case to us and we shall carry out further investigations into the matter.'
The police plan to set up a special probe team to inquire into the incident which has sent shockwaves in business and aviation circles.
Air Works India Engineering Pvt Ltd, which was engaged in maintaining the 13-seater, twin-engined Bell 412 helicopter (No. VT-RCL) since October 2006, has put off duty its entire maintenance engineering staff of 52 for at least one day, or till the police probe into the incident is completed, a company spokesman said.
'We are fully co-operating with the investigators and we felt that till the probe is over, none of our engineers should be present or hamper the investigations in any manner,' the spokesman told IANS here tonight.
In the letter addressed to Chavan, Capt. R.N. Joshi, senior pilot with Reliance Transport & Travels Pvt Ltd, giving a detailed account of the incident, said: 'The planned manner in which the pebbles and gravel were put in the filler cap, at a height of 10 feet above the ground in the gear box, and the gear box cap was closed thereafter, clearly shows that some persons and possible business rivals were attempting to take away the life of Anil Ambani. This is clearly an attempt to murder.'
The letter adds that this would not have been possible without the active involvement of Air Works technicians and the operation was carried out with expert help. Only 13 Air Works technicians - whose names are given in the letter - had access to the helicopter, Capt Joshi added.
Though the Santacruz Airport police station, where Air Works lodged a complaint at 5.30 p.m. Thursday, has detained four and questioned several other Air Works employees in connection with the incident, there is no further progress in the incident, a police official said.
'We are still investigating the matter and questioning several of the persons concerned with the helicopter maintenance. Only after we get proper evidence, we shall initiate appropriate proceedings, including arresting them,' Senior Inspector S.M. Ghuge of Santacruz Airport Police Station said.
Capt Joshi's letter also mentioned that the chopper was being prepared for a scheduled flight to take Anil Ambani and nine other top officials of Reliance Infocomm from Mahalaxmi Race Course (south Mumbai) to Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge City (DAKC) in Navi Mumbai, a 20-minute flight, Friday morning.
Keeping the possibilities in view, the police have registered the Air Works complaint invoking Sec. 440 of the Indian Penal Code, dealing with 'a mischievous intent to murder'.
Indo Asian News Service
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Friday, April 24, 2009
அனாந்த ரங்கம் பிள்ளையன் டயரி குறிப்புகள் -படிக்கவேண்டிய வரலாற்று பதிவு
ANANDARANGAPPILLAI V-NATKKURIPPU — Angirasa Aandu 1752-53 (Tamil): Orsay M. Gopalakichanane; Natramizh Pathippagam, M-55/12, MIG Flats, I Avenue Extension, Indira Nagar, Adyar, Chennai-600020. Rs. 230.
Anandarangam Pillai's diaries written in the mid-18th century constitute a very important landmark in Tamil cultural history. The detailed and colourful diary entries that Anandarangam Pillai had maintained for nearly three decades, and running into a few thousand pages, have been mined by historians, literary specialists, linguists and novelists over the last century with exciting results. The historian C.S. Srinivasachari even described him as the `Pepys of French India'.
Publishing history
Ironically though, the diaries that Anandarangam Pillai maintained for the most part in Tamil were first published in extracts in French translation in 1894. Later, in the first decades of the 20th century, the Madras Government made efforts to copy the Tamil diaries and published them in English translation. Even though Tamil writers such as V.V.S. Iyer demonstrated their awareness of the existence of the diaries it was only in the late 1940s that the Tamil originals began to be published — nearly two centuries after their original composition.
The quirky publishing history does not stop here. Copies were made of the diaries in the mid-19th century, under the supervision of Edouard Ariel, while the original itself has since been lost.
Now, Orsay M. Gopalakichnane, an engineer by profession hailing from Pondicherry and settled in France, has compared the published Tamil version and English translation with the copy available in the Bibliotheque Nationale de France and has come up with some startling revelations. He estimates that as much 30 per cent of the copy in the national library of France is missing in the available versions and that there are many wrong readings.
To rectify this situation, Gopalakichnane has embarked on publishing a new edition, which includes the missing portions, which he has italicised in this edition for easy identification. This is an unenviable and daunting task.
Apart from the style that Anandarangam Pillai used (modern Tamil prose had not yet developed then) teeming with French words accommodated into Tamil, the orthography of the various copyists is an editor's nightmare. Gopalakichnane has also provided glosses in parenthesis for clarity and a very comprehensive index has been placed at the end.
Three eventful years
The meticulousness of the editor should be evident to any careful reader and the volume is a great resource for the specialist. Despite the enormous effort put in by the editor, he has modestly pointed out the various shortcomings of the edition. Given the magnitude of the task — impossible to accomplish by a single hand — he has wisely chosen three eventful Tamil years, `prajorpathi' (1751-52), `angirsa' (1752-53) and `srimuga' (1753-54) for his new extended edition which he calls `v(irintha) natkurippu'. While the first of the volumes was published two years ago, this volume is the second; the third is expected to be out soon.
It is a pressing scholarly need to publish a reliable edition of the complete diaries of Anandarangam Pillai based on the exemplary model provided by Gopalakichnane.
A team of competent scholars with adequate institutional support should embark on this project, which is sure to enrich scholarship.
Anandarangam Pillai's diaries written in the mid-18th century constitute a very important landmark in Tamil cultural history. The detailed and colourful diary entries that Anandarangam Pillai had maintained for nearly three decades, and running into a few thousand pages, have been mined by historians, literary specialists, linguists and novelists over the last century with exciting results. The historian C.S. Srinivasachari even described him as the `Pepys of French India'.
Publishing history
Ironically though, the diaries that Anandarangam Pillai maintained for the most part in Tamil were first published in extracts in French translation in 1894. Later, in the first decades of the 20th century, the Madras Government made efforts to copy the Tamil diaries and published them in English translation. Even though Tamil writers such as V.V.S. Iyer demonstrated their awareness of the existence of the diaries it was only in the late 1940s that the Tamil originals began to be published — nearly two centuries after their original composition.
The quirky publishing history does not stop here. Copies were made of the diaries in the mid-19th century, under the supervision of Edouard Ariel, while the original itself has since been lost.
Now, Orsay M. Gopalakichnane, an engineer by profession hailing from Pondicherry and settled in France, has compared the published Tamil version and English translation with the copy available in the Bibliotheque Nationale de France and has come up with some startling revelations. He estimates that as much 30 per cent of the copy in the national library of France is missing in the available versions and that there are many wrong readings.
To rectify this situation, Gopalakichnane has embarked on publishing a new edition, which includes the missing portions, which he has italicised in this edition for easy identification. This is an unenviable and daunting task.
Apart from the style that Anandarangam Pillai used (modern Tamil prose had not yet developed then) teeming with French words accommodated into Tamil, the orthography of the various copyists is an editor's nightmare. Gopalakichnane has also provided glosses in parenthesis for clarity and a very comprehensive index has been placed at the end.
Three eventful years
The meticulousness of the editor should be evident to any careful reader and the volume is a great resource for the specialist. Despite the enormous effort put in by the editor, he has modestly pointed out the various shortcomings of the edition. Given the magnitude of the task — impossible to accomplish by a single hand — he has wisely chosen three eventful Tamil years, `prajorpathi' (1751-52), `angirsa' (1752-53) and `srimuga' (1753-54) for his new extended edition which he calls `v(irintha) natkurippu'. While the first of the volumes was published two years ago, this volume is the second; the third is expected to be out soon.
It is a pressing scholarly need to publish a reliable edition of the complete diaries of Anandarangam Pillai based on the exemplary model provided by Gopalakichnane.
A team of competent scholars with adequate institutional support should embark on this project, which is sure to enrich scholarship.
ஜெ மட்டும் சென்னைக் கூட்டத்தில் பேசியதையே ரிப்பீட்டலாம். நான் அந்தப் பதிவில் எடுத்ததை ரிப்பீட்டக் கூடாதா?
இந்த இடுகை "சோம்பேறி " என்ற வலை தலத்தில் இருந்து எடுக்கப்பட்டது .
ஜெயலலிதா நேற்று அதிமுக கூட்டணி வேட்பாளர்கள் வை.கோ மற்றும் P.மோகனை ஆதரித்துப் பேச, முறையே சிவகாசி மற்றும் மதுரைக்கு விஜயம் செய்திருந்தார். 'அதைத் தடுப்பதற்காகவே கருனாநிதி இந்த 'பந்த்'தை அறிவித்திருக்கிறார்' என்று நான் சொல்லவில்லை; நேற்று ஜெயா டிவியில் மன்னிக்கவும் விருதுநகர் பொதுக் கூட்டத்தில் பேசிய ஜெயலலிதா சொன்னார்.
மேலும், ஈழப் பிரச்சனைக்காக தீக்குளித்தவர்களுக்காக(குறிப்பாக அதிமுக தொண்டர் மணிக்காக) மௌன அஞ்சலி செலுத்தினார். இனி யாரும் அப்படி செய்யக் கூடாதென வேண்டிக் கொண்டார். தமிழ் திருநாட்டு அரசியல்வாதிகளின் செயல்களை ஊகிக்கவே முடிய வில்லை. நாளையே ஜெ கருனாநிதிக்காக ஓட்டு கேட்டாலும் ஆச்சரியப்படுவதற்கில்லை.
மதுரை கள்ளழகர் திருவிழாவின் போது வன்முறையைக் கட்டவிழ்த்து விட்டு மக்களை பீதிக்கு உள்ளாக்குவதன் மூலம் கள்ள ஓட்டு போட அழகிரி திட்டமிட்டிருப்பதாக ஜெ.க்கு செய்தி வந்திருக்கிறதாம். ஏன்யா ஏன்.. ஏன் அந்தப் பச்சப் புள்ளையைப் பாத்து ஏன் இவ்ளோ பயப்படுறீங்க. ஜெ யூ டூ?
ஜெ பேசிய போது, பல இடங்களில் சென்னையில் பேசியதை மறு ஒளிபரப்பு செய்கிறார்களோ என்று சந்தேகம் வந்தது. அதிலும், 'எனக்கு உங்களை விட்டால் யாருமில்லை. உங்களைத் தான் நம்பியிருக்கிறேன்' என்ற வசனம், 'நாளை நமதே நாற்பதும் நமதே' போல ஜெவின் மற்றொரு பன்ச் டயலாக் ஆகி விட்டது போல. அடிக்கடி ரிப்பீட்டுகிறார். மண்டபத்தில் எழுதிக் கொடுத்த மகானே, ரஸ்ய பட டிவிடிகளிலிருந்து சுட்டாவது கொஞ்சம் சுவாரஸ்யமாக எழுதித் தரவும்.
(ஜெ மட்டும் சென்னைக் கூட்டத்தில் பேசியதையே ரிப்பீட்டலாம். நான் அந்தப் பதிவில் எடுத்ததை ரிப்பீட்டக் கூடாதா?)
விளம்பர இடைவேளையின் போது, கருனாநிதி பேட்டி ஒளிபரப்பானது. அதில் ஒரு நிருபர் கருனாநிதியிடம் 'ஈழ பிரச்சனைக்காக என்ன செய்யப் போகிறீர்கள்?' என்று கேட்கிறார். அதற்கு கருனாநிதி 'தீக்குளிக்கப் போகிறேன். நீயும் வர்றியா' என்று கேட்கிறார். பின்னனியில் 'இன்னும் எத்தனை காலம் தான் ஏமாறுவார் இந்த நாட்டிலே' என்ற பாடல் ஒளிபரப்பாகிறது.
மிகவும் சுவாரசியமான விளம்பர உத்தி. முந்தைய தேர்தல் போல் மொக்கையாக, இருபது நிமிடங்களுக்கு ஜெ டாட்டா போடுவதையே காட்டாமல், இந்த முறை புதிதாக முயற்சித்திருக்கிறார்கள்.
பின் குறிப்பு : நேற்று என் சித்தப்பா இந்தக் கூட்டத்தை (ஓரமாக நின்று வேடிக்கை) பார்க்கப் போயிருந்ததால், அவரை தொலைக்காட்சித் திரையில் பார்க்கும் அல்ப ஆசையின் விளைவாகவே ஜெயா டிவியில் இந்த கூட்டத்தைப் பார்த்தேன். மற்றபடி, இதுவே நான் அதிமுக பொதுக் கூட்டம் பற்றி எழுதும் இரண்டாம் மற்றும் இறுதி இடுகை என்று எங்கள் விருதுநகர் தொகுதி வேட்பாளர்கள் தலையிலடித்து சத்தியம் செய்கிறேன்.
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சோம்பேறி முன்னேற்றக் கழக உறுப்பினர்கள்
ஏன் இன்றைய பணிகளை நாளை செய்ய வேண்டும்? நாளை மறுநாள் இருக்கும் போது...
ஜெயலலிதா நேற்று அதிமுக கூட்டணி வேட்பாளர்கள் வை.கோ மற்றும் P.மோகனை ஆதரித்துப் பேச, முறையே சிவகாசி மற்றும் மதுரைக்கு விஜயம் செய்திருந்தார். 'அதைத் தடுப்பதற்காகவே கருனாநிதி இந்த 'பந்த்'தை அறிவித்திருக்கிறார்' என்று நான் சொல்லவில்லை; நேற்று ஜெயா டிவியில் மன்னிக்கவும் விருதுநகர் பொதுக் கூட்டத்தில் பேசிய ஜெயலலிதா சொன்னார்.
மேலும், ஈழப் பிரச்சனைக்காக தீக்குளித்தவர்களுக்காக(குறிப்பாக அதிமுக தொண்டர் மணிக்காக) மௌன அஞ்சலி செலுத்தினார். இனி யாரும் அப்படி செய்யக் கூடாதென வேண்டிக் கொண்டார். தமிழ் திருநாட்டு அரசியல்வாதிகளின் செயல்களை ஊகிக்கவே முடிய வில்லை. நாளையே ஜெ கருனாநிதிக்காக ஓட்டு கேட்டாலும் ஆச்சரியப்படுவதற்கில்லை.
மதுரை கள்ளழகர் திருவிழாவின் போது வன்முறையைக் கட்டவிழ்த்து விட்டு மக்களை பீதிக்கு உள்ளாக்குவதன் மூலம் கள்ள ஓட்டு போட அழகிரி திட்டமிட்டிருப்பதாக ஜெ.க்கு செய்தி வந்திருக்கிறதாம். ஏன்யா ஏன்.. ஏன் அந்தப் பச்சப் புள்ளையைப் பாத்து ஏன் இவ்ளோ பயப்படுறீங்க. ஜெ யூ டூ?
ஜெ பேசிய போது, பல இடங்களில் சென்னையில் பேசியதை மறு ஒளிபரப்பு செய்கிறார்களோ என்று சந்தேகம் வந்தது. அதிலும், 'எனக்கு உங்களை விட்டால் யாருமில்லை. உங்களைத் தான் நம்பியிருக்கிறேன்' என்ற வசனம், 'நாளை நமதே நாற்பதும் நமதே' போல ஜெவின் மற்றொரு பன்ச் டயலாக் ஆகி விட்டது போல. அடிக்கடி ரிப்பீட்டுகிறார். மண்டபத்தில் எழுதிக் கொடுத்த மகானே, ரஸ்ய பட டிவிடிகளிலிருந்து சுட்டாவது கொஞ்சம் சுவாரஸ்யமாக எழுதித் தரவும்.
(ஜெ மட்டும் சென்னைக் கூட்டத்தில் பேசியதையே ரிப்பீட்டலாம். நான் அந்தப் பதிவில் எடுத்ததை ரிப்பீட்டக் கூடாதா?)
விளம்பர இடைவேளையின் போது, கருனாநிதி பேட்டி ஒளிபரப்பானது. அதில் ஒரு நிருபர் கருனாநிதியிடம் 'ஈழ பிரச்சனைக்காக என்ன செய்யப் போகிறீர்கள்?' என்று கேட்கிறார். அதற்கு கருனாநிதி 'தீக்குளிக்கப் போகிறேன். நீயும் வர்றியா' என்று கேட்கிறார். பின்னனியில் 'இன்னும் எத்தனை காலம் தான் ஏமாறுவார் இந்த நாட்டிலே' என்ற பாடல் ஒளிபரப்பாகிறது.
மிகவும் சுவாரசியமான விளம்பர உத்தி. முந்தைய தேர்தல் போல் மொக்கையாக, இருபது நிமிடங்களுக்கு ஜெ டாட்டா போடுவதையே காட்டாமல், இந்த முறை புதிதாக முயற்சித்திருக்கிறார்கள்.
பின் குறிப்பு : நேற்று என் சித்தப்பா இந்தக் கூட்டத்தை (ஓரமாக நின்று வேடிக்கை) பார்க்கப் போயிருந்ததால், அவரை தொலைக்காட்சித் திரையில் பார்க்கும் அல்ப ஆசையின் விளைவாகவே ஜெயா டிவியில் இந்த கூட்டத்தைப் பார்த்தேன். மற்றபடி, இதுவே நான் அதிமுக பொதுக் கூட்டம் பற்றி எழுதும் இரண்டாம் மற்றும் இறுதி இடுகை என்று எங்கள் விருதுநகர் தொகுதி வேட்பாளர்கள் தலையிலடித்து சத்தியம் செய்கிறேன்.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
How to beat the shoe missile
Tue, 21 Apr 2009
New Delhi, April 21 (IANS)
Fear of the shoe is stalking Indian politicians and many of them aren't taking any chances.
While Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was seen with a net in front of a dais in Ahmedabad, his Uttar Pradesh counterpart Mayawati has increased the distance between herself and the press while speaking to reporters.
At the Congress headquarters in Delhi - where a shoe-throwing episode in the presence of Home Minister P. Chidambaram started it all, eagle-eyed security men are watching out for journalists who try to take their shoes off.
So it did not come as a surprise when new Chief Election Commissioner Navin Chawla took charge Tuesday, two tough looking men watched the media. When a curious journalist asked one of the burly men if he was a journalist or was simply keeping track of shoe-throwing, the answer was just a smile.
After the infamous episode of a Delhi journalist hurling a shoe at Chidambaram, shoe throwing seems have become a trend with the Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate L.K. Adavni as well as Congress MP Naveen Jindal becoming victims.
New Delhi, April 21 (IANS)
Fear of the shoe is stalking Indian politicians and many of them aren't taking any chances.
While Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was seen with a net in front of a dais in Ahmedabad, his Uttar Pradesh counterpart Mayawati has increased the distance between herself and the press while speaking to reporters.
At the Congress headquarters in Delhi - where a shoe-throwing episode in the presence of Home Minister P. Chidambaram started it all, eagle-eyed security men are watching out for journalists who try to take their shoes off.
So it did not come as a surprise when new Chief Election Commissioner Navin Chawla took charge Tuesday, two tough looking men watched the media. When a curious journalist asked one of the burly men if he was a journalist or was simply keeping track of shoe-throwing, the answer was just a smile.
After the infamous episode of a Delhi journalist hurling a shoe at Chidambaram, shoe throwing seems have become a trend with the Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate L.K. Adavni as well as Congress MP Naveen Jindal becoming victims.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
DANGER in day today uses
1) Don't put your mobile closer to your ears until the recipient answers, Because directly after dialing, the mobile phone would use it's maximum signaling power, which is: 2watts = 33dbi. Please Be Careful. Please use left ear while using cell (mobile), because if you use the right one it may affect brain directly. This is a true fact from Apollo medical team.
2) Do not drink APPY FIZZ . It contains cancer causing agent.
3) Don't eat Mentos before or after drinking Coke or Pepsi coz the person will die immediately as the mixture becomes cyanide.
4) Don't eat kurkure because it contains high amount of plastic if U don't Believe burn kurkure n u can see plastic melting. News report from Times of India
5) Avoid these tablets as they are very dangerous
* D cold
* Vicks action- 500
* Actified
* Coldarin
* Co some
* Nice
* Nimulid
* Cetrizet-D
They contain Phenyl- Propanol -Amide PPA.Which Causes strokes, and these tablets are banned in U.S.
6) Cotton Ear Buds... (Must read it) Please do not show sympathy to people selling buds on roadside or at Signals..... Just wanted to warn you people not to buy those packs of ear buds you get at the roadside. It's made from cotton that has already been used in hospitals. They take all the dirty, blood and pus filled cotton, wash it, bleach it and use it to make ear buds. So, unless you want to become the first person in the world to get Herpes Zoster Oticus (a viral infection of the inner, middle, and external ear) of the ear and that too from a cotton bud, DON'T BUY THEM!
2) Do not drink APPY FIZZ . It contains cancer causing agent.
3) Don't eat Mentos before or after drinking Coke or Pepsi coz the person will die immediately as the mixture becomes cyanide.
4) Don't eat kurkure because it contains high amount of plastic if U don't Believe burn kurkure n u can see plastic melting. News report from Times of India
5) Avoid these tablets as they are very dangerous
* D cold
* Vicks action- 500
* Actified
* Coldarin
* Co some
* Nice
* Nimulid
* Cetrizet-D
They contain Phenyl- Propanol -Amide PPA.Which Causes strokes, and these tablets are banned in U.S.
6) Cotton Ear Buds... (Must read it) Please do not show sympathy to people selling buds on roadside or at Signals..... Just wanted to warn you people not to buy those packs of ear buds you get at the roadside. It's made from cotton that has already been used in hospitals. They take all the dirty, blood and pus filled cotton, wash it, bleach it and use it to make ear buds. So, unless you want to become the first person in the world to get Herpes Zoster Oticus (a viral infection of the inner, middle, and external ear) of the ear and that too from a cotton bud, DON'T BUY THEM!
Advani dubs Third Front a 'joke', Fourth Front a 'farce'
Mon, 20 Apr 2009
Bangalore, April 20 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) senior leader and prime ministerial candidate L.K. Advani Monday termed the Third Front 'a joke' and the Fourth Front 'a farce'.
'I consider the Third Front a joke (mazaak) and a theory, while the Fourth Front is a farce because no one can form the next government at the centre without the BJP or the Congress,' Advani said at a poll rally late Monday evening.
Claiming that the BJP had given the country a bipolar polity by emerging as an alternative to the Congress, Advani said his 30-year-old party had ended the dominance of the grand old party (Congress) at the centre as well in the states.
'The BJP broke the hegemony and monopoly of the Congress at the centre by riding to power in 1998 under the National Democratic Alliance (NDA). Let the people decide which party administered the country better by comparing the performance of both the governments,' Advani told a gathering of about 10,000 people as it began to drizzle, driving many among the audience away. The intermittent drizzle had also led to a 90-minute delay in his arrival.
Addressing the restive audience at the National College grounds in English and Hindi, Advani said only the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) can bring about a stable government.
'Nobody wants regional or smaller parties to form the government at the centre. I do not see the Third or the Fourth Front forming the next government, as the people want a stable government that could protect the country and ensure socio-economic development. It's only the BJP-led NDA that can bring about the change,' Advani said raising his voice.
Admitting that the BJP lost in the 2004 elections due to 'over confidence' of its leaders and cadres, Advani said he had exhorted his party's rank and file to work for victory with self-confidence.
'This time, our cadres are not over confident because they are working hard doing micro-management in every polling booth. With every passing day, people are either joining the BJP or supporting us, while the UPA is disintegrating. We are getting new allies. We are no more a north-centric party but a pan Indian party with growing presence in the west, north-east and south where the first BJP government was formed in Karnataka,' Advani reiterated.
Party's general secretary and four-time Member of Parliament H.N. Ananth Kumar is the prominent candidate from the prestigious Bangalore South constituency.
Indo Asian News Service
Bangalore, April 20 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) senior leader and prime ministerial candidate L.K. Advani Monday termed the Third Front 'a joke' and the Fourth Front 'a farce'.
'I consider the Third Front a joke (mazaak) and a theory, while the Fourth Front is a farce because no one can form the next government at the centre without the BJP or the Congress,' Advani said at a poll rally late Monday evening.
Claiming that the BJP had given the country a bipolar polity by emerging as an alternative to the Congress, Advani said his 30-year-old party had ended the dominance of the grand old party (Congress) at the centre as well in the states.
'The BJP broke the hegemony and monopoly of the Congress at the centre by riding to power in 1998 under the National Democratic Alliance (NDA). Let the people decide which party administered the country better by comparing the performance of both the governments,' Advani told a gathering of about 10,000 people as it began to drizzle, driving many among the audience away. The intermittent drizzle had also led to a 90-minute delay in his arrival.
Addressing the restive audience at the National College grounds in English and Hindi, Advani said only the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) can bring about a stable government.
'Nobody wants regional or smaller parties to form the government at the centre. I do not see the Third or the Fourth Front forming the next government, as the people want a stable government that could protect the country and ensure socio-economic development. It's only the BJP-led NDA that can bring about the change,' Advani said raising his voice.
Admitting that the BJP lost in the 2004 elections due to 'over confidence' of its leaders and cadres, Advani said he had exhorted his party's rank and file to work for victory with self-confidence.
'This time, our cadres are not over confident because they are working hard doing micro-management in every polling booth. With every passing day, people are either joining the BJP or supporting us, while the UPA is disintegrating. We are getting new allies. We are no more a north-centric party but a pan Indian party with growing presence in the west, north-east and south where the first BJP government was formed in Karnataka,' Advani reiterated.
Party's general secretary and four-time Member of Parliament H.N. Ananth Kumar is the prominent candidate from the prestigious Bangalore South constituency.
Indo Asian News Service
Why is Sonia silent on Karunanidhi's LTTE remark: Jayalalitha
Mon, Apr 20 09:55 PM
Madurai, April 20 (IANS)
AIADMK boss J. Jayalalitha Monday attacked Congress president Sonia Gandhi for her silence on Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi's open support for the outlawed Tamil Tigers, which was behind the assassination of her husband in 1991.
Speaking to CNN IBN news channel, the former Tamil Nadu chief minister asked how Sonia Gandhi could remain silent on the matter - as widow of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, as Congress party president and as United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chief.
'Why is it that Sonia Gandhi is keeping silent? Is she not the Congress president, is she not the widow of Rajiv Gandhi, is she not the chairperson of the UPA? She should come out with clear explicit answer on these questions, and she should tell the nation what she feels about it as Mr. Karunanidhi has made the statement. And she should also tell the nation what she proposes to do about it as the president of Congress and chairperson of UPA.'
Jayalalitha was reacting to Karunaidhi telling NDTV Sunday that he would 'deeply regret it (if LTTE chief Prabhakaran is killed)'. 'I will regret it. I will say it happened because of a lack of unity among the Tamil groups in Sri Lanka,' he told the channel.
Asked if he saw Prabhakaran as a terrorist, Karunanidhi said: 'No, I don't. Some people in Prabhakaran's group might be involved in terrorism. But that is not Prabhakaran's fault.'
'Prabhakaran is a good friend, and I am not a terrorist.'
However, he changed his stance Monday after his remarks triggered a political storm.
He said that the LTTE 'did not start off as a terrorist group. They began as a liberation group but it has now become a terrorist organisation', Times Now TV quoted him as saying.
Karunanidhi also insisted that the people had not forgotten Sriperumbudur - the small town near Chennai where a LTTE suicide bomber assassinated former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi at an election rally in May 1991.
Indo Asian News Service
Madurai, April 20 (IANS)
AIADMK boss J. Jayalalitha Monday attacked Congress president Sonia Gandhi for her silence on Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi's open support for the outlawed Tamil Tigers, which was behind the assassination of her husband in 1991.
Speaking to CNN IBN news channel, the former Tamil Nadu chief minister asked how Sonia Gandhi could remain silent on the matter - as widow of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, as Congress party president and as United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chief.
'Why is it that Sonia Gandhi is keeping silent? Is she not the Congress president, is she not the widow of Rajiv Gandhi, is she not the chairperson of the UPA? She should come out with clear explicit answer on these questions, and she should tell the nation what she feels about it as Mr. Karunanidhi has made the statement. And she should also tell the nation what she proposes to do about it as the president of Congress and chairperson of UPA.'
Jayalalitha was reacting to Karunaidhi telling NDTV Sunday that he would 'deeply regret it (if LTTE chief Prabhakaran is killed)'. 'I will regret it. I will say it happened because of a lack of unity among the Tamil groups in Sri Lanka,' he told the channel.
Asked if he saw Prabhakaran as a terrorist, Karunanidhi said: 'No, I don't. Some people in Prabhakaran's group might be involved in terrorism. But that is not Prabhakaran's fault.'
'Prabhakaran is a good friend, and I am not a terrorist.'
However, he changed his stance Monday after his remarks triggered a political storm.
He said that the LTTE 'did not start off as a terrorist group. They began as a liberation group but it has now become a terrorist organisation', Times Now TV quoted him as saying.
Karunanidhi also insisted that the people had not forgotten Sriperumbudur - the small town near Chennai where a LTTE suicide bomber assassinated former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi at an election rally in May 1991.
Indo Asian News Service
பி .ஜெ .பி இன் தேர்தல் வாக்குறுதிகள் !
வறுமைக் கோட்டுக்கு கீழே வசிக்கும் மக்களுக்கு இரண்டு ரூபாய்க்கு அரிசி, கோதுமை வழங்கப்படும்; தேசிய பொருளாதாரத்தில் உள்ள கறுப்பு பணத்தைக் குறைக்க உறுதியான நடவடிக்கை எடுக்கப்படும். சுவிஸ் பாங்கில உள்ள ரூ.25 லட்சம் கோடி முதல் ரூ. 75லட்சம் கோடி வரையான கறுப்பு பணத்தை மீட்டுக் கொண்டு வர கடும் நடவடிக்கை மேற்கொள்ளப்படும். நாட்டின் அடிப்படைத் தேவைகளான வீட்டு வசதி, சுகாதாரம் மற்றும் சமூக நலத் திட்டஙகளுக்கு அந்த கறுப்பு பணம் பயன் படுத்தப்படும்; மாத வருவாய் பெறுபவர்களுக்கு வருமான வரி வரம்பு ஆண்டுக்கு மூன்று லட்ச ரூபாயாக உயர்த்தப்படும். பெண்கள், மூத்த குடிமக்கள் ஆகியோருக்கு வருமான வரி உச்ச வரம்பு 3.5 லட்ச ரூபாயாகும்.என்று பா.ஜ., அறிவித்துள்ளது. பா.ஜ.,வின் தேர்தல் அறிக்கை, நேற்று டில்லியில் வெளியிடப்பட் டது. இது 44 பக்கங்கள் கொண்டது. இத்தேர்தல் அறிக்கை வெளியீட்டில் எதிர்க்கட்சித் தலைவர் அத்வானி, கட்சித் தலைவர் ராஜ்நாத் சிங், தேர்தல் அறிக்கை தயாரித்த ஜோஷி உள்ளிட்ட தலைவர்கள் கலந்து கொண்டனர்.
பா.ஜ., வெளியிட்டுள்ள தேர்தல் அறிக்கையில் கூறியிருப்பதாவது:
*வறுமைக் கோட்டிற்கு கீழ் வாழும் மக்களுக்கு, ரேஷன் மூலமாக 35 கிலோ அரிசி மற்றும் கோதுமை கிலோ இரண்டு ரூபாய் என்ற விலையில் வழங்கப்படும்.
* தேசிய பொருளாதாரத்தில் உள்ள கறுப்பு பணத்தைக் குறைக்க உறுதியான நடவடிக்கை எடுக்கப்படும். சுவிஸ் பாங்கில உள்ள ரூ.25 லட்சம் முதல் ரூ. 75லட்சம் வரையான கறுப்பு பணத்தை மீட்டுக் கொண்டு வர கடும் நடவடிக்கை மேற்கொள்ளப்படும். நாட்டின் அடிப்படைத் தேவைகளான வீட்டு வசதி, சுகாதாரம் மற்றும் சமூக நலத் திட்டஙகளுக்கு அந்த கறுப்பு பணம் பயன் படுத்தப்படும்.
*மாத வருவாய் பெறுபவர்களுக்கு வருமான வரி வரம்பு ஆண்டுக்கு மூன்று லட்ச ரூபாயாக உயர்த்தப்படும். பெண்கள், மூத்த குடிமக்கள் ஆகியோருக்கு வருமான வரி உச்ச வரம்பு 3.5 லட்ச ரூபாயாகும்.
*விவசாயக்கடன் வட்டி 4 சதவீதம் வரை குறைக்கப்படும்.
*ராணுவம் மற்றும் துணை ராணுவம் ஆகியவற்றில் பணிபுரிவோருக்கு முழு வரி விலக்கு அளிக்கப்படும்.
*வாஜ்பாய் ஆட்சியின் போது உத்தரகண்ட், சட்டீஸ்கர், ஜார்க்கண்ட் போன்றவை உருவானது போல பா.ஜ., மீண்டும் ஆட்சிக்கு வந்தால், விதர்பா, தெலுங்கானா கூர்க்கா போன்ற சிறிய மாநிலங்கள் உருவாக்கப்படும்.
*இலங்கையில் உள்நாட்டு பயங்கரவாதத்தை கட்டுப்படுத்த அந்நாட்டு அரசுக்கு எவ்வளவு உரிமை உள்ளதோ, அதேபோல, அங்கு வசிக்கும் தமிழ் மக்களுக்கு பாதுகாப்பை ஏற்படுத்த வேண்டிய கடமையும் அந்நாட்டு அரசுக்கு உள்ளது. இவ்வாறு அதில் கூறப்பட்டுள்ளது.
*ராமர் பாலத்தை எக்காரணம் கொண்டும் இடிக்க விடமாட்டோம். அதே சமயம், சேது கால்வாய் திட்டத்தை மாற்று வழி மூலமாக செயல்படுத்தப் படும்.
*அயோத்தியில் ராமருக்கு பிரம்மாண்டமான கோவில் அமைக்க பா.ஜ., தன்னை அர்ப்பணிக்கும். பொது சிவில் சட்டம் கொண்டு வரப்படும்.
*காஷ்மீருக்கு வழங்கப்பட்டிருக்கும் விசேஷ அந்தஸ்து சட்டம் ரத்து செய்யப்படும்.
மேலும் சட்டசபைத் தேர்தலும், லோக்சபாத் தேர்தலும் நாடு முழுவதும் ஒரே நேரத்தில் நடத்தப்பட வலியுறுத்தப்பட்டிருக்கிறது. கடந்த 11 ஆண்டுகளுக்குப் பின், தனியாக தேர்தல் அறிக்கையை பா.ஜ., வெளியிட்டிருக்கிறது. இதுவரை தே.ஜ., கூட்டணிக்கான பொதுத் திட்டத்தை மட்டும் பின்பற்றியது.
பின்னர் நிருபர்களிடம் அத்வானி கூறுகையில், 'வரும் 16ம் தேதி அன்று டில்லியில் தே.ஜ., கூட்டணி கட்சிகளின் ஆலோசனைக் கூட்டம் நடக்கிறது. ஆட்சி நடத்துவதற்கு தேவையான திட்ட அறிக்கை அப்போது தயார் செய்யப்பட்டு வெளியிடப்படும். தேசிய அளவில் மூன்றாவது அணிக்கு இடம் கிடையாது. காங்கிரஸ், பா.ஜ., ஆகியவற்றின் தயவு இல்லாமல் எந்த அணியும் ஆட்சியைப் பிடிக்க முடியாது.
ஐக்கிய முற்போக்கு கூட்டணி சிதறி விட்டது. அந்த அணியில் தற்போது தி.மு.க., மட்டுமே உள்ளது. ஆனால், தேசிய ஜனநாயக கூட்டணி நாளுக்கு நாள் வளர்ந்து வருகிறது. இன்று கூட கூர்க்காலாண்ட் கட்சி ஒன்று இந்த கூட்டணியில் இணைந்துள்ளது. இவ்வாறு அத்வானி கூறினார்.
பா.ஜ., வெளியிட்டுள்ள தேர்தல் அறிக்கையில் கூறியிருப்பதாவது:
*வறுமைக் கோட்டிற்கு கீழ் வாழும் மக்களுக்கு, ரேஷன் மூலமாக 35 கிலோ அரிசி மற்றும் கோதுமை கிலோ இரண்டு ரூபாய் என்ற விலையில் வழங்கப்படும்.
* தேசிய பொருளாதாரத்தில் உள்ள கறுப்பு பணத்தைக் குறைக்க உறுதியான நடவடிக்கை எடுக்கப்படும். சுவிஸ் பாங்கில உள்ள ரூ.25 லட்சம் முதல் ரூ. 75லட்சம் வரையான கறுப்பு பணத்தை மீட்டுக் கொண்டு வர கடும் நடவடிக்கை மேற்கொள்ளப்படும். நாட்டின் அடிப்படைத் தேவைகளான வீட்டு வசதி, சுகாதாரம் மற்றும் சமூக நலத் திட்டஙகளுக்கு அந்த கறுப்பு பணம் பயன் படுத்தப்படும்.
*மாத வருவாய் பெறுபவர்களுக்கு வருமான வரி வரம்பு ஆண்டுக்கு மூன்று லட்ச ரூபாயாக உயர்த்தப்படும். பெண்கள், மூத்த குடிமக்கள் ஆகியோருக்கு வருமான வரி உச்ச வரம்பு 3.5 லட்ச ரூபாயாகும்.
*விவசாயக்கடன் வட்டி 4 சதவீதம் வரை குறைக்கப்படும்.
*ராணுவம் மற்றும் துணை ராணுவம் ஆகியவற்றில் பணிபுரிவோருக்கு முழு வரி விலக்கு அளிக்கப்படும்.
*வாஜ்பாய் ஆட்சியின் போது உத்தரகண்ட், சட்டீஸ்கர், ஜார்க்கண்ட் போன்றவை உருவானது போல பா.ஜ., மீண்டும் ஆட்சிக்கு வந்தால், விதர்பா, தெலுங்கானா கூர்க்கா போன்ற சிறிய மாநிலங்கள் உருவாக்கப்படும்.
*இலங்கையில் உள்நாட்டு பயங்கரவாதத்தை கட்டுப்படுத்த அந்நாட்டு அரசுக்கு எவ்வளவு உரிமை உள்ளதோ, அதேபோல, அங்கு வசிக்கும் தமிழ் மக்களுக்கு பாதுகாப்பை ஏற்படுத்த வேண்டிய கடமையும் அந்நாட்டு அரசுக்கு உள்ளது. இவ்வாறு அதில் கூறப்பட்டுள்ளது.
*ராமர் பாலத்தை எக்காரணம் கொண்டும் இடிக்க விடமாட்டோம். அதே சமயம், சேது கால்வாய் திட்டத்தை மாற்று வழி மூலமாக செயல்படுத்தப் படும்.
*அயோத்தியில் ராமருக்கு பிரம்மாண்டமான கோவில் அமைக்க பா.ஜ., தன்னை அர்ப்பணிக்கும். பொது சிவில் சட்டம் கொண்டு வரப்படும்.
*காஷ்மீருக்கு வழங்கப்பட்டிருக்கும் விசேஷ அந்தஸ்து சட்டம் ரத்து செய்யப்படும்.
மேலும் சட்டசபைத் தேர்தலும், லோக்சபாத் தேர்தலும் நாடு முழுவதும் ஒரே நேரத்தில் நடத்தப்பட வலியுறுத்தப்பட்டிருக்கிறது. கடந்த 11 ஆண்டுகளுக்குப் பின், தனியாக தேர்தல் அறிக்கையை பா.ஜ., வெளியிட்டிருக்கிறது. இதுவரை தே.ஜ., கூட்டணிக்கான பொதுத் திட்டத்தை மட்டும் பின்பற்றியது.
பின்னர் நிருபர்களிடம் அத்வானி கூறுகையில், 'வரும் 16ம் தேதி அன்று டில்லியில் தே.ஜ., கூட்டணி கட்சிகளின் ஆலோசனைக் கூட்டம் நடக்கிறது. ஆட்சி நடத்துவதற்கு தேவையான திட்ட அறிக்கை அப்போது தயார் செய்யப்பட்டு வெளியிடப்படும். தேசிய அளவில் மூன்றாவது அணிக்கு இடம் கிடையாது. காங்கிரஸ், பா.ஜ., ஆகியவற்றின் தயவு இல்லாமல் எந்த அணியும் ஆட்சியைப் பிடிக்க முடியாது.
ஐக்கிய முற்போக்கு கூட்டணி சிதறி விட்டது. அந்த அணியில் தற்போது தி.மு.க., மட்டுமே உள்ளது. ஆனால், தேசிய ஜனநாயக கூட்டணி நாளுக்கு நாள் வளர்ந்து வருகிறது. இன்று கூட கூர்க்காலாண்ட் கட்சி ஒன்று இந்த கூட்டணியில் இணைந்துள்ளது. இவ்வாறு அத்வானி கூறினார்.
Monday, April 20, 2009
This message give you a idea about coconut trees age:-
Mr.Vinay Chand writes :-
I wonder if people can help me. I have for a long time not paid serious attention to claims that palms were senile or not at a particular age requiring replacement or at least cutting.
My own impression had been that there is no finite age of senility but rather at a particular age, I assumed to be 70 years, it becomes impractical to harvest coconuts from palms that are too tall. However, I keep coming across arguments that the palms need cutting at the age of 60 or even 40.
I need to look at the definition of senility in yield terms and the ag eat which it takes place. I am interested in this in general but in particular to the Pacific.
Best wishes,
Vinay Chand
230, Finchley Road,
London NW3 6DJ, UK
Tel: 44-20-7794 5977
Fax: 44-20-7431 5715
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Answer for Mr.Vinay Chand
Dear Vinay Chand
you raise a very critical issue concerning the productive life of the coconut palm.
There can be different reasons for a decline in yield of which aging is the primary one, but declining soil fertility, damage to the trunk or to the root system due to soil disturbance, or the onset of insect of pathogen attack can also be involved.
Ageing in the coconut takes the form of a gradual reduction in the length of the frond after about 30 years of age, a litle later if the soil fertility and year-round water supply are favourable.
As the palm ages the biomass allocated to trunk development declines as fruit development takes precedence. The amount of trunk extension between successive fronds gradually declines and this causes the base of the emerging frond to force the frond that preceded it to decline "outwards" from its position in the canopy, so that over time the full canopy of the palm has many of its older fronds drooping below a horizontal angle. Such fronds intercept less radiation so the biomass supply from photosynthesis slowly declines. The result is shorter fronds. This process, by sixty years of age, will have reduced light interception of a plantation from perhaps 80% at its peak to 40%. Yield will be proportionately decreased. Beyond 60 years it continues to decline.
I have observed palms on Taveuni Island of Fiji that were 100 years old and still had a healthy colour in the fronds, but the yield was perhaps 20 fruit. Peak yield in that environment would have been well in excess of 100 fruit per palm per year.
I and Dr Ashburner wrote a chapter for the book Handbook of Industrial Crops in 2004. The reference is as follows:
Foale, M.A. and Ashburner, R (2004) The coconut palm. Chapter 6 in: Handbook of Industrial Crops, VL Chopra and KV Peter (Eds). Indian Council for Agricultural Research, New Delhi, and Haworth Reference Press, New York
In that chapter the yield story outlined above is dealt with in more detail. I hope that it will be of use to you.
sincerely
Mike Foale
I wonder if people can help me. I have for a long time not paid serious attention to claims that palms were senile or not at a particular age requiring replacement or at least cutting.
My own impression had been that there is no finite age of senility but rather at a particular age, I assumed to be 70 years, it becomes impractical to harvest coconuts from palms that are too tall. However, I keep coming across arguments that the palms need cutting at the age of 60 or even 40.
I need to look at the definition of senility in yield terms and the ag eat which it takes place. I am interested in this in general but in particular to the Pacific.
Best wishes,
Vinay Chand
230, Finchley Road,
London NW3 6DJ, UK
Tel: 44-20-7794 5977
Fax: 44-20-7431 5715
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Answer for Mr.Vinay Chand
Dear Vinay Chand
you raise a very critical issue concerning the productive life of the coconut palm.
There can be different reasons for a decline in yield of which aging is the primary one, but declining soil fertility, damage to the trunk or to the root system due to soil disturbance, or the onset of insect of pathogen attack can also be involved.
Ageing in the coconut takes the form of a gradual reduction in the length of the frond after about 30 years of age, a litle later if the soil fertility and year-round water supply are favourable.
As the palm ages the biomass allocated to trunk development declines as fruit development takes precedence. The amount of trunk extension between successive fronds gradually declines and this causes the base of the emerging frond to force the frond that preceded it to decline "outwards" from its position in the canopy, so that over time the full canopy of the palm has many of its older fronds drooping below a horizontal angle. Such fronds intercept less radiation so the biomass supply from photosynthesis slowly declines. The result is shorter fronds. This process, by sixty years of age, will have reduced light interception of a plantation from perhaps 80% at its peak to 40%. Yield will be proportionately decreased. Beyond 60 years it continues to decline.
I have observed palms on Taveuni Island of Fiji that were 100 years old and still had a healthy colour in the fronds, but the yield was perhaps 20 fruit. Peak yield in that environment would have been well in excess of 100 fruit per palm per year.
I and Dr Ashburner wrote a chapter for the book Handbook of Industrial Crops in 2004. The reference is as follows:
Foale, M.A. and Ashburner, R (2004) The coconut palm. Chapter 6 in: Handbook of Industrial Crops, VL Chopra and KV Peter (Eds). Indian Council for Agricultural Research, New Delhi, and Haworth Reference Press, New York
In that chapter the yield story outlined above is dealt with in more detail. I hope that it will be of use to you.
sincerely
Mike Foale
பிரபாகரனுக்கு 24 மணி நேர 'கெடு ' : ராஜபக்சே
கொழும்பு (ஏஜென்சி), திங்கள்கிழமை, 20 ஏப்ரல் 2009 ( 15:42 IST )
விடுதலைப் புலிகள் தலைவர் பிரபாகரன் மற்றும் அவரது முக்கிய உதவியாளர்கள் சரணடைய கடைசியாக 24 மணி நேரம் கெடு அளிப்பதாக இலங்கை அதிபர் ராஜ பக்சே இன்று அறிவித்துள்ளார்.
இந்த 24 மணி நேரத்திற்குப் பின்னர் புலிகளை இறுதியாக அழித்தொழிக்கும் நடவடிக்கையை ராணுவத்தினர் மேற்கொள்வார்கள் என்றும் அவர் கூறியுள்ளார்.
புலிகளின் கட்டுப்பாட்டிலிருந்து இன்று 35,000 க்கும் அதிகமான தமிழர்கள் தப்பித்து வந்துள்ளதாகவும், இது புலிகள் முற்றிலும் தோல்வியடைந்துவிட்டதையே காட்டுவதாக உள்ளதாகவும் ராஜ பக்சே கூறியுள்ளார்.
புதுக்குடியிருப்பு பகுதியி்ல் இலங்கை இராணுவத்தினர் கனரக ஆயுதங்களுடன் இன்று காலை முதல் மேற்கொண்டுவரும் மிகக் கொடூரமானத் தாக்குதலில் 988 அப்பாவித் தமிழர்கள் படுகொலை செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளனர்.
பாதுகாப்பு வளையத்தை நோக்கி முன்னகர்ந்த ராணுவத்தினர் அப்பகுதியில் உள்ள மக்களை கேடயமாக வைத்துக் கொண்டு முன்னேறியதாகவும், அதற்கு சம்மதிக்காத மக்களை சரமாரியாக சுட்டுத் தள்ளியதாகவும் செய்தி வெளியாகி உள்ள நிலையில், மேற்கூறிய 24 மணி நேர கெடுவுக்குப் பின்னர் புலிகளை அழிப்பதாக கூறி தமிழர்கள் மீது மிகக்கொடூர தாக்குதலை நடத்த ராஜ பக்சே திட்டமிட்டுள்ளதையே அவரது இந்த எச்சரிக்கை காட்டுவதாக தெரிகிறது.
(மூலம் - வெப்துனியா)
விடுதலைப் புலிகள் தலைவர் பிரபாகரன் மற்றும் அவரது முக்கிய உதவியாளர்கள் சரணடைய கடைசியாக 24 மணி நேரம் கெடு அளிப்பதாக இலங்கை அதிபர் ராஜ பக்சே இன்று அறிவித்துள்ளார்.
இந்த 24 மணி நேரத்திற்குப் பின்னர் புலிகளை இறுதியாக அழித்தொழிக்கும் நடவடிக்கையை ராணுவத்தினர் மேற்கொள்வார்கள் என்றும் அவர் கூறியுள்ளார்.
புலிகளின் கட்டுப்பாட்டிலிருந்து இன்று 35,000 க்கும் அதிகமான தமிழர்கள் தப்பித்து வந்துள்ளதாகவும், இது புலிகள் முற்றிலும் தோல்வியடைந்துவிட்டதையே காட்டுவதாக உள்ளதாகவும் ராஜ பக்சே கூறியுள்ளார்.
புதுக்குடியிருப்பு பகுதியி்ல் இலங்கை இராணுவத்தினர் கனரக ஆயுதங்களுடன் இன்று காலை முதல் மேற்கொண்டுவரும் மிகக் கொடூரமானத் தாக்குதலில் 988 அப்பாவித் தமிழர்கள் படுகொலை செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளனர்.
பாதுகாப்பு வளையத்தை நோக்கி முன்னகர்ந்த ராணுவத்தினர் அப்பகுதியில் உள்ள மக்களை கேடயமாக வைத்துக் கொண்டு முன்னேறியதாகவும், அதற்கு சம்மதிக்காத மக்களை சரமாரியாக சுட்டுத் தள்ளியதாகவும் செய்தி வெளியாகி உள்ள நிலையில், மேற்கூறிய 24 மணி நேர கெடுவுக்குப் பின்னர் புலிகளை அழிப்பதாக கூறி தமிழர்கள் மீது மிகக்கொடூர தாக்குதலை நடத்த ராஜ பக்சே திட்டமிட்டுள்ளதையே அவரது இந்த எச்சரிக்கை காட்டுவதாக தெரிகிறது.
(மூலம் - வெப்துனியா)
An engineer from IIT, now a farmer
An Inspirational story …
An engineer from IIT, now a farmer
This is an inspiring story.It helps you dare to think beyond the usual..It shows how single minded dedication and focused work can help one beget the dreams.One who helps himself,the devinity reaches out to help them.Read on.
Off-beat is in. The oft beaten track, not so.
One of the most interesting themes at this year's Pan-IIT event was the session on rural transformation. IITians who have chosen an offbeat career hogged the limelight at the event. In this series, we feature some of the IITians who preferred to be different, rather than get into a corporate rat race.
The star at the event was R Madhavan, an alumnus of IIT-Madras. This is Madhavan's success story as a farmer
Passion for agriculture
I had a passion for agriculture even when I was young. I don't know how my love for agriculture started. I only know that I have always been a nature lover.
I used to have a garden even when I was a teenager. So, from a home garden, a kitchen garden, I gradually became a farmer! My mother used to be very happy with the vegetables I grew.
Studying at IIT-Madras
My family was against my ambition of becoming an agriculturist. So, I had to find a livelihood for myself.
I wrote IIT-JEE and got selected to study at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. I enjoyed studying mechanical engineering.
My intention was to transform what I study into what I love; mechanisation of farming. I felt the drudgery in farming is much more than in any other industry, and no one had looked into it.
Working for ONGC after IIT
I started my career at the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC). My father refused to give me any money to start farming. So I asked the officials to let me work at the offshore sites, on the rigs.
The advantage was that I could work on rigs for 14 days and then take 14 days off. I chose to work on the rigs for nine years, uninterrupted.
My first farm land
Madhavan's farm.
After 4 years, I saved enough money to buy six acres of land. I bought land at Chengelpet near Chennai.
I chose that land because the plot had access to road and water. Back in 1989, a man in a pair of trousers aroused curiosity among the farming community. That was not the image of a farmer!
Tough beginning as a farmer
I became a full fledged farmer in 1993. It was tough in the beginning. Nobody taught me how to farm. There was no guidance from the gram sevaks or the University of Agriculture.
I ran from pillar to post but couldn't find a single scientist who could help me. I burnt my fingers. My first crop was paddy and I produced 2 tonnes from the six acres of land, it was pathetic.
When I lost all my money, my father said I was stupid. I told him, it didn't matter as I was learning. It was trial and error for me for three years. Until 1997, I was only experimenting by mingling various systems.
Going to Israel to learn
In 1996, I visited Israel because I had heard that they are the best in water technology. Take the case of corn: they harvest 7 tonnes per acre whereas we produce less than a tonne.
They harvest up to 200 tonnes of tomatoes, whereas here it is 6 tonnes, in similar area of land.. I stayed in one of the kibbutz, which is a co-operative farm for 15 days.
I understood what we do is quite primitive. It was an eye opener for me. They treat each plant as an industry. A plant producing one kilo of capsicum is an industry that has 1 kilo output.
I learnt from them that we abuse water. Drip irrigation is not only for saving water but it enhances your plant productivity. We commonly practice flood irrigation where they just pump water. As per the 2005 statistics, instead of 1 litre, we use 750 litres of water.
Dr Lakshmanan, my guru
I met Dr Lakshmanan, a California-based NRI, who has been farming for the last 35 years on 50-60,000 acres of land.
He taught me farming over the last one decade. Whatever little I have learnt, it is thanks to him.
I knew a farm would give me much better returns in terms of money as well as happiness. Working for money and working for happiness are different. I work and get happiness. What more do you need?
No guidance in India
I said at one platform that we have to change the curriculum of the agricultural universities. What they teach the students is not how to farm, but how to draw loans from a bank!
What they learn cannot be transformed to reality or to the villages. The problem in the villages is not mentioned in the university. There is a wide gap and it is getting worse.
Making profits
After burning my fingers for four years, from 1997 onwards, I started making profits.
Even though it took me four years, I did not lose hope. I knew this was my path ven though I didn't have any guidance from anyone.
In those days, communication was slow. Today, I can get guidance from Dr Lakshmanan on Skype or Google Talk, or through e-mail.
I send him the picture of my problem and ask his guidance. In those days, it took time to communicate. There was no Internet or connectivity.
That was why it took me four years to learn farming. Today, I would not have taken more than six months or even less to learn the trick!
The farming cycle
I started crop rotation after 1997. In August, I start with paddy and it is harvested in December.
I plant vegetables in December itself and get the crops in February. After that, it is oil seeds like sesame and groundnut, which are drought-resistant, till May.
During May, I go on trips to learn more about the craft. I come back in June-July and start preparations on the land to get ready for August. In 1999, I bought another four acres. My target is a net income of Rs 100,000 per annum per acre. I have achieved up to Rs 50,000.
Selling the products
I sell my produce on my own. I have a jeep and bring what I produce to my house and sell from there. People know that I sell at home. I don't go through any middle man.
I take paddy to the mill, hull it and sell it on my own. In the future, I have plans to have a mill too. These days, people tell me in advance that they need rice from me. I have no problem selling my produce.
Engineering helps in farming
More than any other education, engineering helps in farming because toiling in the soil is only 20 per cent of the work. About 80 per cent of farming needs engineering skills.
Science is a must for any farming. I have developed a number of simple, farmer-friendly tools for farming areas like seeding, weeding, etc. as we don't have any tools for small farmers.
If I have 200 acres of land, I can go for food processing, etc. My next project is to lease land from the small farmers for agriculture. The village will prosper with food processing industries coming there. My yield will also be more with more land.
Abdul Kalam visits the farm
Dr Abdul Kalam visited my farm when he was the President, after hearing about what I was doing. He spent around two hours on my farm.
During his visit, he said: "We need not one, but one million Madhavans!"
If I am able to inspire or create even one entrepreneur, I will be very happy, because that is what Dr Kalam wished me to do.
Experimental farming
Every acre of my land has ten cents of experimental farming. I have done this for the last 15 years..
This is a part of my research and development. Some of it may fail, but even if I succeed at one thing, that is enough for me.
Entrepreneurship in the village
I feel that the number of people engaged only in farming should come down. Instead of ten people, there should only be two people. I am not saying the eight should go jobless.
What we should do is, create employment in the villages based on other agro activities like value addition, processing, etc.
We can go for mechanisation in large areas so that the cost per acre goes down.. In India, the cost per every meal is very high. So, my next concern is, how do you make it cheap.
In America, the unskilled working for one hour can earn three meals a day. Here, in the rural areas, even if they work for one day, they can't get one meal a day. How do you bring down the cost? By producing more food. So, my intention is to make more food.
Food insecurity in India
The United Nations says 65 per cent of the world population suffers from food deficiency, and India ranks first in the list.
About 49 per cent of our children are undernourished. This means our future generation will be affected.
If we are not going to give attention to this area, we are in for real trouble. Food insecurity is more threatening than an atom bomb!
FWD MAIL
An engineer from IIT, now a farmer
This is an inspiring story.It helps you dare to think beyond the usual..It shows how single minded dedication and focused work can help one beget the dreams.One who helps himself,the devinity reaches out to help them.Read on.
Off-beat is in. The oft beaten track, not so.
One of the most interesting themes at this year's Pan-IIT event was the session on rural transformation. IITians who have chosen an offbeat career hogged the limelight at the event. In this series, we feature some of the IITians who preferred to be different, rather than get into a corporate rat race.
The star at the event was R Madhavan, an alumnus of IIT-Madras. This is Madhavan's success story as a farmer
Passion for agriculture
I had a passion for agriculture even when I was young. I don't know how my love for agriculture started. I only know that I have always been a nature lover.
I used to have a garden even when I was a teenager. So, from a home garden, a kitchen garden, I gradually became a farmer! My mother used to be very happy with the vegetables I grew.
Studying at IIT-Madras
My family was against my ambition of becoming an agriculturist. So, I had to find a livelihood for myself.
I wrote IIT-JEE and got selected to study at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. I enjoyed studying mechanical engineering.
My intention was to transform what I study into what I love; mechanisation of farming. I felt the drudgery in farming is much more than in any other industry, and no one had looked into it.
Working for ONGC after IIT
I started my career at the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC). My father refused to give me any money to start farming. So I asked the officials to let me work at the offshore sites, on the rigs.
The advantage was that I could work on rigs for 14 days and then take 14 days off. I chose to work on the rigs for nine years, uninterrupted.
My first farm land
Madhavan's farm.
After 4 years, I saved enough money to buy six acres of land. I bought land at Chengelpet near Chennai.
I chose that land because the plot had access to road and water. Back in 1989, a man in a pair of trousers aroused curiosity among the farming community. That was not the image of a farmer!
Tough beginning as a farmer
I became a full fledged farmer in 1993. It was tough in the beginning. Nobody taught me how to farm. There was no guidance from the gram sevaks or the University of Agriculture.
I ran from pillar to post but couldn't find a single scientist who could help me. I burnt my fingers. My first crop was paddy and I produced 2 tonnes from the six acres of land, it was pathetic.
When I lost all my money, my father said I was stupid. I told him, it didn't matter as I was learning. It was trial and error for me for three years. Until 1997, I was only experimenting by mingling various systems.
Going to Israel to learn
In 1996, I visited Israel because I had heard that they are the best in water technology. Take the case of corn: they harvest 7 tonnes per acre whereas we produce less than a tonne.
They harvest up to 200 tonnes of tomatoes, whereas here it is 6 tonnes, in similar area of land.. I stayed in one of the kibbutz, which is a co-operative farm for 15 days.
I understood what we do is quite primitive. It was an eye opener for me. They treat each plant as an industry. A plant producing one kilo of capsicum is an industry that has 1 kilo output.
I learnt from them that we abuse water. Drip irrigation is not only for saving water but it enhances your plant productivity. We commonly practice flood irrigation where they just pump water. As per the 2005 statistics, instead of 1 litre, we use 750 litres of water.
Dr Lakshmanan, my guru
I met Dr Lakshmanan, a California-based NRI, who has been farming for the last 35 years on 50-60,000 acres of land.
He taught me farming over the last one decade. Whatever little I have learnt, it is thanks to him.
I knew a farm would give me much better returns in terms of money as well as happiness. Working for money and working for happiness are different. I work and get happiness. What more do you need?
No guidance in India
I said at one platform that we have to change the curriculum of the agricultural universities. What they teach the students is not how to farm, but how to draw loans from a bank!
What they learn cannot be transformed to reality or to the villages. The problem in the villages is not mentioned in the university. There is a wide gap and it is getting worse.
Making profits
After burning my fingers for four years, from 1997 onwards, I started making profits.
Even though it took me four years, I did not lose hope. I knew this was my path ven though I didn't have any guidance from anyone.
In those days, communication was slow. Today, I can get guidance from Dr Lakshmanan on Skype or Google Talk, or through e-mail.
I send him the picture of my problem and ask his guidance. In those days, it took time to communicate. There was no Internet or connectivity.
That was why it took me four years to learn farming. Today, I would not have taken more than six months or even less to learn the trick!
The farming cycle
I started crop rotation after 1997. In August, I start with paddy and it is harvested in December.
I plant vegetables in December itself and get the crops in February. After that, it is oil seeds like sesame and groundnut, which are drought-resistant, till May.
During May, I go on trips to learn more about the craft. I come back in June-July and start preparations on the land to get ready for August. In 1999, I bought another four acres. My target is a net income of Rs 100,000 per annum per acre. I have achieved up to Rs 50,000.
Selling the products
I sell my produce on my own. I have a jeep and bring what I produce to my house and sell from there. People know that I sell at home. I don't go through any middle man.
I take paddy to the mill, hull it and sell it on my own. In the future, I have plans to have a mill too. These days, people tell me in advance that they need rice from me. I have no problem selling my produce.
Engineering helps in farming
More than any other education, engineering helps in farming because toiling in the soil is only 20 per cent of the work. About 80 per cent of farming needs engineering skills.
Science is a must for any farming. I have developed a number of simple, farmer-friendly tools for farming areas like seeding, weeding, etc. as we don't have any tools for small farmers.
If I have 200 acres of land, I can go for food processing, etc. My next project is to lease land from the small farmers for agriculture. The village will prosper with food processing industries coming there. My yield will also be more with more land.
Abdul Kalam visits the farm
Dr Abdul Kalam visited my farm when he was the President, after hearing about what I was doing. He spent around two hours on my farm.
During his visit, he said: "We need not one, but one million Madhavans!"
If I am able to inspire or create even one entrepreneur, I will be very happy, because that is what Dr Kalam wished me to do.
Experimental farming
Every acre of my land has ten cents of experimental farming. I have done this for the last 15 years..
This is a part of my research and development. Some of it may fail, but even if I succeed at one thing, that is enough for me.
Entrepreneurship in the village
I feel that the number of people engaged only in farming should come down. Instead of ten people, there should only be two people. I am not saying the eight should go jobless.
What we should do is, create employment in the villages based on other agro activities like value addition, processing, etc.
We can go for mechanisation in large areas so that the cost per acre goes down.. In India, the cost per every meal is very high. So, my next concern is, how do you make it cheap.
In America, the unskilled working for one hour can earn three meals a day. Here, in the rural areas, even if they work for one day, they can't get one meal a day. How do you bring down the cost? By producing more food. So, my intention is to make more food.
Food insecurity in India
The United Nations says 65 per cent of the world population suffers from food deficiency, and India ranks first in the list.
About 49 per cent of our children are undernourished. This means our future generation will be affected.
If we are not going to give attention to this area, we are in for real trouble. Food insecurity is more threatening than an atom bomb!
FWD MAIL
ENNAMA KANNU, SOWKIYAMA? Sathyaraj
‘I’m like the kid in TZP’
...says Sathyaraj, who, CT finds, is still young at heart and his penchant for the unusual is still evident
SRINIVASA RAMANUJAM Times News Network
On a sunny day in 1976, a lanky lad called Rangaraj hurriedly left his home in Coimbatore with minimal luggage and a letter on him. He hopped over to the post box bang opposite his house and dropped the letter that said, “I am leaving home to go to Chennai and join the movies.” It was addressed to his mother, who — along with his other family members — had forbidden him from venturing anywhere near Kodambakkam.
Thirty three years later, Rangarajan aka actor Sathyaraj still remembers that day clearly. “I should have just dropped the letter off at the post box in my house,” he reminisces, “Why did I have to waste the stamp charge that was levied on it?”
Known for his uncanny dialogue delivery and his ability to poke fun at things that seem normal otherwise, the actor is now trying to learn new languages! He has his hands full with a Telugu movie (in which he co-stars with Trisha and Gopichand), a Malayalam film and a couple of Tamil films. Was venturing into other woods a conscious decision? “I’ve wanted to act in other languages as well, and the right chance came along some time ago. When I started off on the Telugu film, I clearly told them that I was like the kid in Taare Zameen Par! And, the director immediately told me that while the TZP kid had only one Aamir Khan, I’ll have everyone in the crew to assist him!”
Once he decided that he was going to woods closer home, his first concern was that he had to use prompting devices — something he’d never done in Kollywood. “That was when I chanced upon a book written by Marlon Brando. He had, in fact, used prompting most of the time! When an actor of his calibre can use it and perform, I had no second thoughts.” The last few years have been very important for the versatile actor. If Onbathu Roobai Nottu brought out his acting talent, Kannamoochi Enada proved that his special knack of delivering oneliners and jokes was still intact. “I didn’t want to play the socalled hero character,” he states matter-of-factly, “I couldn’t convert myself into a 25-year-old on
screen. Nor was I interested in playing runof-the-mill hero dad roles. I wanted to do movies for directors who could cast me in powerful roles.”
The offbeat and the unusual have often attracted the lanky actor, who was cast in memorable villain roles in the 1980s. “At a film festival that showcased my film Periyar, the audience found it tough to actually recognise me as the person they saw on screen!” Some of them came up to him and hugged him. “I’d never got that kind of a reception and was truly thrilled,” he says. His dialogues on screen — like ‘En characteraye purinjukamatengara’ or ‘Ennama Kannu’ — have always evinced interest among audiences, primarily due to the way in which they were delivered. “My directors have used me perfectly and given me such opportunities,” he says, “Interestingly, the famous Ennama Kannu… dialogue has undergone a journey. It became a song, and soon, a film was made with it as the title!”
Sathyaraj is on the lookout for a historical subject, something that he describes as his “dream project.” “There’s something about those projects, you know,” he starts off with delight, “When ten cars fly on screen, there’s a certain grandeur about it but it’ll never match the charm that a historical subject has.”
T H E 8 0 S E F F E C T
Sathyaraj was recently a guest at Radio Mirchi’s Rewind, a programme to reminisce the cinema industry two decades ago. “There was a sea change in the 1980s, in which the two-hero pattern was slightly broken,” he said, “Due to those changes in Kollywood, almost everybody could aspire to become a hero and that’s probably why I made it too!
...says Sathyaraj, who, CT finds, is still young at heart and his penchant for the unusual is still evident
SRINIVASA RAMANUJAM Times News Network
On a sunny day in 1976, a lanky lad called Rangaraj hurriedly left his home in Coimbatore with minimal luggage and a letter on him. He hopped over to the post box bang opposite his house and dropped the letter that said, “I am leaving home to go to Chennai and join the movies.” It was addressed to his mother, who — along with his other family members — had forbidden him from venturing anywhere near Kodambakkam.
Thirty three years later, Rangarajan aka actor Sathyaraj still remembers that day clearly. “I should have just dropped the letter off at the post box in my house,” he reminisces, “Why did I have to waste the stamp charge that was levied on it?”
Known for his uncanny dialogue delivery and his ability to poke fun at things that seem normal otherwise, the actor is now trying to learn new languages! He has his hands full with a Telugu movie (in which he co-stars with Trisha and Gopichand), a Malayalam film and a couple of Tamil films. Was venturing into other woods a conscious decision? “I’ve wanted to act in other languages as well, and the right chance came along some time ago. When I started off on the Telugu film, I clearly told them that I was like the kid in Taare Zameen Par! And, the director immediately told me that while the TZP kid had only one Aamir Khan, I’ll have everyone in the crew to assist him!”
Once he decided that he was going to woods closer home, his first concern was that he had to use prompting devices — something he’d never done in Kollywood. “That was when I chanced upon a book written by Marlon Brando. He had, in fact, used prompting most of the time! When an actor of his calibre can use it and perform, I had no second thoughts.” The last few years have been very important for the versatile actor. If Onbathu Roobai Nottu brought out his acting talent, Kannamoochi Enada proved that his special knack of delivering oneliners and jokes was still intact. “I didn’t want to play the socalled hero character,” he states matter-of-factly, “I couldn’t convert myself into a 25-year-old on
screen. Nor was I interested in playing runof-the-mill hero dad roles. I wanted to do movies for directors who could cast me in powerful roles.”
The offbeat and the unusual have often attracted the lanky actor, who was cast in memorable villain roles in the 1980s. “At a film festival that showcased my film Periyar, the audience found it tough to actually recognise me as the person they saw on screen!” Some of them came up to him and hugged him. “I’d never got that kind of a reception and was truly thrilled,” he says. His dialogues on screen — like ‘En characteraye purinjukamatengara’ or ‘Ennama Kannu’ — have always evinced interest among audiences, primarily due to the way in which they were delivered. “My directors have used me perfectly and given me such opportunities,” he says, “Interestingly, the famous Ennama Kannu… dialogue has undergone a journey. It became a song, and soon, a film was made with it as the title!”
Sathyaraj is on the lookout for a historical subject, something that he describes as his “dream project.” “There’s something about those projects, you know,” he starts off with delight, “When ten cars fly on screen, there’s a certain grandeur about it but it’ll never match the charm that a historical subject has.”
T H E 8 0 S E F F E C T
Sathyaraj was recently a guest at Radio Mirchi’s Rewind, a programme to reminisce the cinema industry two decades ago. “There was a sea change in the 1980s, in which the two-hero pattern was slightly broken,” he said, “Due to those changes in Kollywood, almost everybody could aspire to become a hero and that’s probably why I made it too!
ISRO Launched first Radar Imaging Satellite
CHENNAI:19/4/09
Aiming to enhance India's defence surveillance capabilities, ISRO is all set to launch its first Radar Imaging Satellite
(RISAT) and
micro educational satellite, ANUSAT, from its spaceport in Sriharikota at 6.45 AM on Monday.
According to ISRO, Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle-C12 (PSLV-C12) would carry the 300-kg RISAT-2 and 40-kg micro satellite, ANUSAT, built by Anna University.
RISAT, to be launched from Sriharikota on the east coast of Andhra Pradesh, some 80 km north from here, has all weather capability to take images of the Earth and would also be beneficial in mapping and managing natural disasters, such as floods and landslides, besides amplifying defence surveillance capabilities of the nation.
As per specifications, RISAT is different from previous remote sensing satellites as it uses Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), equipped with many antennas to receive signals that are processed into high-resolution pictures.
The SAR, developed by Israel Aerospace Industries, gives RISAT defence capabilities.
Aiming to enhance India's defence surveillance capabilities, ISRO is all set to launch its first Radar Imaging Satellite
(RISAT) and
micro educational satellite, ANUSAT, from its spaceport in Sriharikota at 6.45 AM on Monday.
According to ISRO, Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle-C12 (PSLV-C12) would carry the 300-kg RISAT-2 and 40-kg micro satellite, ANUSAT, built by Anna University.
RISAT, to be launched from Sriharikota on the east coast of Andhra Pradesh, some 80 km north from here, has all weather capability to take images of the Earth and would also be beneficial in mapping and managing natural disasters, such as floods and landslides, besides amplifying defence surveillance capabilities of the nation.
As per specifications, RISAT is different from previous remote sensing satellites as it uses Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), equipped with many antennas to receive signals that are processed into high-resolution pictures.
The SAR, developed by Israel Aerospace Industries, gives RISAT defence capabilities.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Narain Karthikeyan Gushs on Nano
The world’s cheapest car Nano has thrilled the Indian masses and also India’s first F1 circuit driver Narain Karthikeyan. He is proud of Tata Motors for launching the small car saying that “Nano is a reflection of Indian innovation and its impact on the world.”
Narain can’t stop praising Tata Nano after having driven it several times. He was among the select few to have test driven India’s small car extensively. Narain testifies that Tata Motors claims for superior quality and performance are true. The horses are ample for a 623 cc car. It is not known if he has booked for the first phase of 1Lakh Nano cars to be allotted in July.
Narain Karthikeyan has been quick to put to rest the fears of several people on Nano’s one on road performance. Based on his experience of driving the car he said that it is marvelous piece of engineering. It is lighter than Maruti 800 and delivers high level comfort that will surprise its occupants. He believes that the Nano rush is real and is worth much more than the Rs One Lakh price tag offered by Tata Motors. He re-affirms that Tata Nano is a top quality product.
Clearly, he has been floored by Nano’s charms, despite his F1 experience. This clearly highlights that Nano is more than a cheap car.
Narain can’t stop praising Tata Nano after having driven it several times. He was among the select few to have test driven India’s small car extensively. Narain testifies that Tata Motors claims for superior quality and performance are true. The horses are ample for a 623 cc car. It is not known if he has booked for the first phase of 1Lakh Nano cars to be allotted in July.
Narain Karthikeyan has been quick to put to rest the fears of several people on Nano’s one on road performance. Based on his experience of driving the car he said that it is marvelous piece of engineering. It is lighter than Maruti 800 and delivers high level comfort that will surprise its occupants. He believes that the Nano rush is real and is worth much more than the Rs One Lakh price tag offered by Tata Motors. He re-affirms that Tata Nano is a top quality product.
Clearly, he has been floored by Nano’s charms, despite his F1 experience. This clearly highlights that Nano is more than a cheap car.
நாம் திருந்த இன்னும் எத்தனை காலம் தேவைபடுமோ..?
சிரிய குழந்தைகள்
இடது கால் செருப்பை
வலது காலிலும்
வலது கால் செருப்பை
இடது கலிலும்
இடும் தவற்றை
மிக செரியாக செய்யும்...
அந்த குழந்தைகள் கூட
காலத்தின் போக்கில்
தன் தவறுகளை
திருத்தி கொள்வதுண்டு...
ஆனால் நாமோ...
ஜனனாயக ஆட்சி தொடங்கி
ஐம்பத்தைந்து ஆண்டுகளுக்கு
மேலாகியும் தவறான ஆட்களுக்கு
ஓட்டு போடும் தவறை காலம்
தவறாமல் செய்துகொண்டிருக்கிறோம்...
நாம் திருந்த இன்னும்
எத்தனை காலம்
தேவைபடுமோ..?
எனது ஆர்குட் நண்பர் திரு .புவன் அவர்கள் எழுதிய கவிதை .
இடது கால் செருப்பை
வலது காலிலும்
வலது கால் செருப்பை
இடது கலிலும்
இடும் தவற்றை
மிக செரியாக செய்யும்...
அந்த குழந்தைகள் கூட
காலத்தின் போக்கில்
தன் தவறுகளை
திருத்தி கொள்வதுண்டு...
ஆனால் நாமோ...
ஜனனாயக ஆட்சி தொடங்கி
ஐம்பத்தைந்து ஆண்டுகளுக்கு
மேலாகியும் தவறான ஆட்களுக்கு
ஓட்டு போடும் தவறை காலம்
தவறாமல் செய்துகொண்டிருக்கிறோம்...
நாம் திருந்த இன்னும்
எத்தனை காலம்
தேவைபடுமோ..?
எனது ஆர்குட் நண்பர் திரு .புவன் அவர்கள் எழுதிய கவிதை .
Financial Crisis -When it ends?
NEWS
- Fed will not allow unorthodox policies to lead to inflation
surge, but may need to do more to ease credit, Fed's No. 2 says
- Euro zone econ should start recovering in 2010 after tough
2009, European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet says
- Paul Volcker, Obama economic adviser, says U.S. recovery
will be a "long slog" but rate of decline "is going to slow"
- U.S. housing sales near a bottom, a third of sales now of
foreclosed properties, Freddie Mac chief economist says
- China's sovereign wealth fund to consider investment
opportunities in Europe, has identified potential targets there
In short terms,every thing will rapidly come to a good stand at the begining of 2010.
For a example,Citi Bank group pulled a rabbit out of a hat in the first quarter.
The company managed to turn in a profit this quarter by one measure, its first quarter of positive net income since 2007.
- Fed will not allow unorthodox policies to lead to inflation
surge, but may need to do more to ease credit, Fed's No. 2 says
- Euro zone econ should start recovering in 2010 after tough
2009, European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet says
- Paul Volcker, Obama economic adviser, says U.S. recovery
will be a "long slog" but rate of decline "is going to slow"
- U.S. housing sales near a bottom, a third of sales now of
foreclosed properties, Freddie Mac chief economist says
- China's sovereign wealth fund to consider investment
opportunities in Europe, has identified potential targets there
In short terms,every thing will rapidly come to a good stand at the begining of 2010.
For a example,Citi Bank group pulled a rabbit out of a hat in the first quarter.
The company managed to turn in a profit this quarter by one measure, its first quarter of positive net income since 2007.
BJP forms new front in Tamil Nadu
Sat, Apr 18 09:02 PM
Chennai, April 18 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Saturday formed a front in Tamil Nadu with the Janata Party, Nadalum Makkal Katchi (NMK) and All India Samathuva Makkal Katchi (AISMK) headed by film stars Karthick and Sarath Kumar for Lok Sabha polls.
Disclosing this at a press conference here, senior BJP leader M. Venkaiah Naidu said 'the Janata Party, headed by Subramanian Swamy, would not contest any seats, but extend full support and work for the front in Tamil Nadu.'
As per the seat-sharing agreement, AISMK will contest in Tuticorin, Tirunelveli, Tenkasi, Namakkal and Tirupur, NMK would fight the Virudhunagar and Theni seats, and BJP will contest in 13 constituencies.
Denying reports of BJP approaching the AIADMK-led front for a post-poll alliance, Naidu said: 'We are not approaching anybody right now' and expressed the hope that 'the BJP-led front would put up a good show in the elections'.
On the Sri Lankan ethnic issue, Naidu said the central government does not have any action plan to solve the problems of Tamils in the island nation.
The party had mixed results in the past decade as it tied up with the DMK and AIADMK. Aligning with the AIADMK in 1998, BJP had won three of the five seats it contested and then won four out of six that they contested with the support of the DMK front.
Hoping to replicate its earlier success, the BJP again aligned with the AIADMK in 2004 but drew bank losing all six seats that they contested.
The party dropped its plan of joining the AIADMK this time since J. Jayalalithaa joined hands with the Left parties.
Tamil Nadu goes to polls for all its 39 Lok Sabha seats May 13.
Chennai, April 18 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Saturday formed a front in Tamil Nadu with the Janata Party, Nadalum Makkal Katchi (NMK) and All India Samathuva Makkal Katchi (AISMK) headed by film stars Karthick and Sarath Kumar for Lok Sabha polls.
Disclosing this at a press conference here, senior BJP leader M. Venkaiah Naidu said 'the Janata Party, headed by Subramanian Swamy, would not contest any seats, but extend full support and work for the front in Tamil Nadu.'
As per the seat-sharing agreement, AISMK will contest in Tuticorin, Tirunelveli, Tenkasi, Namakkal and Tirupur, NMK would fight the Virudhunagar and Theni seats, and BJP will contest in 13 constituencies.
Denying reports of BJP approaching the AIADMK-led front for a post-poll alliance, Naidu said: 'We are not approaching anybody right now' and expressed the hope that 'the BJP-led front would put up a good show in the elections'.
On the Sri Lankan ethnic issue, Naidu said the central government does not have any action plan to solve the problems of Tamils in the island nation.
The party had mixed results in the past decade as it tied up with the DMK and AIADMK. Aligning with the AIADMK in 1998, BJP had won three of the five seats it contested and then won four out of six that they contested with the support of the DMK front.
Hoping to replicate its earlier success, the BJP again aligned with the AIADMK in 2004 but drew bank losing all six seats that they contested.
The party dropped its plan of joining the AIADMK this time since J. Jayalalithaa joined hands with the Left parties.
Tamil Nadu goes to polls for all its 39 Lok Sabha seats May 13.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
A South Indian group of Brahmins in Tamil Nadu called Sholiyar or Chozhiyar, claim that Chanakya was one of them.
Chanakya (Sanskrit: चाणक्य Cāṇakya) (c. 350-283 BCE) was an adviser and a prime minister[1] to the first Maurya Emperor Chandragupta (c. 340-293 BCE), and architect of his rise to power. Kautilya and Vishnugupta, the names by which the ancient Indian political treatise called the Arthaśāstra identifies its author, are traditionally identified with Chanakya.[2] Chanakya has been considered as the pioneer of the field of economics, preceding Ibn Khaldun in writing about it by about a millennium and a half.[3][4][5][6] He is known as "The Indian Machiavelli" in the Western world.[7] Chanakya was a professor at Takshashila University and is widely believed to be responsible for the creation of Mauryan empire, the first of its kind on the Indian subcontinent.
Identity
He is generally called Chanakya[8] but, in his capacity as author of the Arthaśhāstra, is generally referred to as Kautilya which means kautil neeti.He was the master of shrewd act of diplomacy. He believed in four ways Enticement , Sowing dession , Punishment or war .[9] The Arthaśhāstra identifies its author by the name Kautilya,[2] except for one verse which refers to him by the name Vishnugupta.[10] One of the earliest Sanskrit literature to explicitly identify Chanakya with Vishnugupta was Vishnu Sarma's Panchatantra in the 3rd century BC.[11]
K.C. Ojha puts forward the view that the traditional identification of Vishnugupta with Kautilya was caused by a confusion of editor and originator and suggests that Vishnugupta was a redactor of the original work of Kautilya.[2] Thomas Burrow goes even further and suggests that Chanakya and Kautilya may have been two different people.[12]
Works
Two books are attributed to Chanakya: Arthashastra and Nitishastra which is also known as Chanakya Niti. The Arthashastra discusses monetary and fiscal policies, welfare, international relations, and war strategies in detail. Nitishastra is a treatise on the ideal way of life, and shows Chanakya's in depth study of the Indian way of life.
Legend
Silver punch mark coin of the Mauryan empire, with symbols of wheel and elephant. 3rd century BCE.
Thomas R. Trautmann lists the following elements as common to different forms of the Chanakya legend[13]:
* Chanakya was born with a complete set of teeth, a sign that he would become king, which is inappropriate for a Brahmin like Chanakya. Chāṇakya's teeth were therefore broken and it was prophesied that he will rule through another.
* The Nanda King throws Chānakya out of his court, prompting Chānakya to swear revenge.
* Chānakya searches for one worthy for him to rule through. Chānakya encounters a young Chandragupta Maurya who is a born leader even as a child.
* Chānakya's initial attempt to overthrow Nanda fails, whereupon he comes across a mother scolding her child for burning himself by eating from the middle of a bun or bowl of porridge rather than the cooler edge. Chāṇakya realizes his initial strategic error and, instead of attacking the heart of Nanda territory, slowly chips away at its edges.
* Chānakya changed his alliance with the mountain king Parvata due to his obstinacy and non-adherence to the principles of the treaty as agreed.
* Chānakya enlists the services of a fanatical weaver to rid the kingdom of rebels.
* Chānakya adds poison to the food eaten by Chandragupta Maurya, now king, in order to make him immune. Unaware, Chandragupta feeds some of his food to his queen, who is in her ninth month of pregnancy. In order to save the heir to the throne, Chānakya cuts the queen open and extracts the fetus, who is named Bindusāra because he was touched by a drop (bindu) of blood of poison.
* Chānakya's political rivalry with Subandhu leads to his death.
Chanakya was an intelligent saint. Once, it is said that Mauryan forces had to hide in a cave. There was no food. Soldiers were starving.They could not come out of the cave either, as there was a threat to their lives. Chanakya saw an ant taking a grain of rice, Whereas, there was no sign of food or grain anywhere. Moreover, the rice grain was cooked. He ordered the soldiers to search and they found that their enemies had been dining under the cave. Somewhat like, at the ground floor. As soon as they saw this, they escaped and thus were saved.
Jain version
According to Jaina accounts[14] Chānakya was born in the village of Caṇaka in the Golla district to Caṇin and Caṇeśvarī, a Maga Brahmin couple[13].
Death of Chanakya
Chanakya lived to a ripe old age and died around 283 BC and was cremated by his grandson/disciple Radhagupta who succeeded Rakshasa Katyayan (great-grand son of Prabuddha Katyayan, who attained Nirvana during the same period as Gautam Budhha) as Prime Minister of the Maurya Empire and was instrumental in backing Ashoka to the throne. There were three non-traditional belief paths in society those days, Jaina, Buddhist and Ajivaka. Ajivaka practising Chanakya brought about the downfall of the Jaina Nandas and their coterie of Jaina ministers. (Chanakya 's uncle was Jain, too, and a group of Jains backed Chanakya in his political machinations). Later on, Chandragupta Maurya took Jainism on abdicating his throne which passed to his Son Bindusara who was an Ajivaka. Even Ashoka was practising Ajivaka who before accession to throne became Buddhist. Bindusara was born before his father ever became Emperor so the below legend is definitely not true. Ashoka's daughter was married in 265 BC and his son Kunala was 18 years of age in 269 BC which means that even the princes married early, Ashoka was born 310 BC and Bindusara around 330 BC. Bindusara means one who encompasses all that is need to be known.
Later on, Ajivikism which was the official religion of the empire since the Kalinga War (261 BC) and for 14 years afterwards, declined and merged into traditional Hinduism. What has been left are a mish mash of contradictory Buddhist and Jaina legends which are even rejected by Sinhalese chronicles.
According to a legend which is a later jaina invention, while Chanakya served as the Prime Minister of Chandragupta Maurya, he started adding small amounts of poison in Chandragupta's food so that he would get used to it. The aim of this was to prevent the Emperor from being poisoned by enemies. One day the queen, Durdha, shared the food with the Emperor while she was pregnant. Since she was not used to eating poisoned food, she died. Chanakya decided that the baby should not die; hence he cut open the belly of the queen and took out the baby. A drop (bindu in Sanskrit) of poison had passed to the baby's head, and hence Chanakya named him Bindusara. Bindusara would go on to become a great king and to father the greatest Mauryan Emperor since Chandragupta - Asoka.
When Bindusara became a youth, Chandragupta gave up the throne and followed the Jain saint Bhadrabahu to present day Karnataka and settled in a place known as Shravana Belagola. He lived as an ascetic for some years and died of voluntary starvation according to Jain tradition.
Chanakya meanwhile stayed as the Prime Minister of Bindusara. Bindusara also had a minister named Subandhu who did not like Chanakya. One day he told Bindusara that Chanakya was responsible for the murder of his mother. Bindusara asked the nurses who confirmed this story and he became very angry with Chanakya.
It is said that Chanakya, on hearing that the Emperor was angry with him, thought that anyway he was at the end of his life. He donated all his wealth to the poor, widows and orphans and sat on a dung heap, prepared to die by total abstinence from food and drink. Bindusara meanwhile heard the full story of his birth from the nurses and rushed to beg forgiveness of Chanakya. But Chanakya would not relent. Bindusara went back and vent his fury on Subandhu, who asked for time to beg for forgiveness from Chanakya.
Subandhu, who still hated Chanakya, wanted to make sure that Chanakya did not return to the city. So he arranged for a ceremony of respect, but unnoticed by anyone, slipped a smoldering charcoal ember inside the dung heap. Aided by the wind, the dung heap swiftly caught fire, and the man behind the Mauryan Empire and the author of Arthashastra was burned to death.
His main philosophy was "A debt should be paid off till the last penny; An enemy should be destroyed without a trace". Ironically, Subandhu followed his main philosophy and destroyed him without a trace.
Pali version
Chanakya is a Brahmin from Takshila[13].
Other versions
The classical Sanskrit play by Vishakhadatta, Mudrarakshasa, is one popular source of Chankaya lore. (The play has been dated between 4th and 9th century CE).
A South Indian group of Brahmins in Tamil Nadu called Sholiyar or Chozhiyar, claim that Chanakya was one of them. Though this may sound very improbable, considering the vast distance between present day Tamilnadu in the south and Magadha in Bihar, it finds curious echos in the Abhidhānchintāmani, where Hemachandra claims that Chankya was a Dramila[15]("Dramila" is believed to be the root of the word "Dravida" by some scholars).
There is also a claim that Chanakya belonged to the Brahmin group from the present day Kerala. In true Hindu tradition he is said to have persuaded King Chandragupta Maurya to forsake his throne and to join him in moving to the last phase of one's life viz. Sanyasa. Accordingly, he took the King along with him to South India where both of them carried prolonged meditation and finally achieved Moksha.
Kautilya was educated at Taxila or Takshashila,[16] in present day Pakistan. The new states (in present-day Bihar and Uttar Pradesh) by the northern high road of commerce along the base of the Himalayas maintained contact with Takshasilâ and at the eastern end of the northern high road (uttarapatha) was the kingdom of Magadha with its capital city, Pataliputra, now known as Patna. Chanakya's life was connected to these two cities, Pataliputra and Taxila.
In his early years he was tutored extensively in the Vedas - Chanakya memorized them completely at a very early age.[verification needed] He was also taught mathematics, geography and science along with religion.[verification needed] Later he travelled to Taxila, where he became a teacher of politics.[verification needed] Chanakya taught subjects using the best of practical knowledge acquired by the teachers. The age of entering the University was sixteen. The branches of study most sought after around India at that time ranged from law, medicine, warfare and other disciplines. Two of his more famous students were Bhadrabhatta and Purushdutta.[verification needed]
Political turmoil in Western India at that time caused by Greek invasion forced Chanakya to leave the University environment for the city of Pataliputra (presently known as Patna, in the state of Bihar, India), which was ruled by the Nanda king Dhanananda. Although Chanakya initially prospered in his relations with the ruler, being a blunt person he was soon disliked by Dhanananda. This ended with Chanakya being removed from an official position he enjoyed.
According to the Kashmiri version of his legend, Chāṇakya a thorn had pricked his foot, he uprooted the tree and poured buttermilk in the roots . [17]
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10. ^ Mabbett 1964
Trautmann 1971:5 "the very last verse of the work...is the unique instance of the personal name Vishnugupta rather than the gotra name Kautilya in the Arthaśhāstra.
11. ^ Mabbett 1964: "References to the work in other Sanskrit literature attribute it variously to Vishnugupta, Chanakya and Kautilya. The same individual is meant in each case. The Pańcatantra explicitly identifies Chanakya with Vishnugupta."
12. ^ Trautmann 1971:67 'T. Burrow ("Cāṇakya and Kauṭalya", Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute 48–49 1968, p. 17 ff.) has now shown that Cāṇakya is also a gotra name, which in conjunction with other evidence makes it clear that we are dealing with two distinct persons, the minister Cāṇakya of legend and Kauṭilya the compiler of the Arthaśāstra. Furthermore, this throws the balance of evidence in favor of the view that the second name was originally spelt Kauṭalya and that after the compiler of the Arth. came to be identified with the Mauryan minister it was altered to Kautilya (as it appears in Āryaśūra, Viśākhadatta and Bāna) for the sake of the pun. We must then assume that the later spelling subsequently replaced the earlier in the gotra lists and elsewhere.'
13. ^ a b c Trautmann 1971:"The Chāṇakya-Chandragupta-Kathā"
14. ^ the Pariśiṣṭa Parvan by Hemacandra
15. ^ R.C. Majumdar, A. D. Pusalker, A. K. Majumdar et al,The History and Culture of the Indian People - The age of imperial unity, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Mumbai, 1962
16. ^ Chanakya-Niti
17. ^ Trautmann 1971:31
Identity
He is generally called Chanakya[8] but, in his capacity as author of the Arthaśhāstra, is generally referred to as Kautilya which means kautil neeti.He was the master of shrewd act of diplomacy. He believed in four ways Enticement , Sowing dession , Punishment or war .[9] The Arthaśhāstra identifies its author by the name Kautilya,[2] except for one verse which refers to him by the name Vishnugupta.[10] One of the earliest Sanskrit literature to explicitly identify Chanakya with Vishnugupta was Vishnu Sarma's Panchatantra in the 3rd century BC.[11]
K.C. Ojha puts forward the view that the traditional identification of Vishnugupta with Kautilya was caused by a confusion of editor and originator and suggests that Vishnugupta was a redactor of the original work of Kautilya.[2] Thomas Burrow goes even further and suggests that Chanakya and Kautilya may have been two different people.[12]
Works
Two books are attributed to Chanakya: Arthashastra and Nitishastra which is also known as Chanakya Niti. The Arthashastra discusses monetary and fiscal policies, welfare, international relations, and war strategies in detail. Nitishastra is a treatise on the ideal way of life, and shows Chanakya's in depth study of the Indian way of life.
Legend
Silver punch mark coin of the Mauryan empire, with symbols of wheel and elephant. 3rd century BCE.
Thomas R. Trautmann lists the following elements as common to different forms of the Chanakya legend[13]:
* Chanakya was born with a complete set of teeth, a sign that he would become king, which is inappropriate for a Brahmin like Chanakya. Chāṇakya's teeth were therefore broken and it was prophesied that he will rule through another.
* The Nanda King throws Chānakya out of his court, prompting Chānakya to swear revenge.
* Chānakya searches for one worthy for him to rule through. Chānakya encounters a young Chandragupta Maurya who is a born leader even as a child.
* Chānakya's initial attempt to overthrow Nanda fails, whereupon he comes across a mother scolding her child for burning himself by eating from the middle of a bun or bowl of porridge rather than the cooler edge. Chāṇakya realizes his initial strategic error and, instead of attacking the heart of Nanda territory, slowly chips away at its edges.
* Chānakya changed his alliance with the mountain king Parvata due to his obstinacy and non-adherence to the principles of the treaty as agreed.
* Chānakya enlists the services of a fanatical weaver to rid the kingdom of rebels.
* Chānakya adds poison to the food eaten by Chandragupta Maurya, now king, in order to make him immune. Unaware, Chandragupta feeds some of his food to his queen, who is in her ninth month of pregnancy. In order to save the heir to the throne, Chānakya cuts the queen open and extracts the fetus, who is named Bindusāra because he was touched by a drop (bindu) of blood of poison.
* Chānakya's political rivalry with Subandhu leads to his death.
Chanakya was an intelligent saint. Once, it is said that Mauryan forces had to hide in a cave. There was no food. Soldiers were starving.They could not come out of the cave either, as there was a threat to their lives. Chanakya saw an ant taking a grain of rice, Whereas, there was no sign of food or grain anywhere. Moreover, the rice grain was cooked. He ordered the soldiers to search and they found that their enemies had been dining under the cave. Somewhat like, at the ground floor. As soon as they saw this, they escaped and thus were saved.
Jain version
According to Jaina accounts[14] Chānakya was born in the village of Caṇaka in the Golla district to Caṇin and Caṇeśvarī, a Maga Brahmin couple[13].
Death of Chanakya
Chanakya lived to a ripe old age and died around 283 BC and was cremated by his grandson/disciple Radhagupta who succeeded Rakshasa Katyayan (great-grand son of Prabuddha Katyayan, who attained Nirvana during the same period as Gautam Budhha) as Prime Minister of the Maurya Empire and was instrumental in backing Ashoka to the throne. There were three non-traditional belief paths in society those days, Jaina, Buddhist and Ajivaka. Ajivaka practising Chanakya brought about the downfall of the Jaina Nandas and their coterie of Jaina ministers. (Chanakya 's uncle was Jain, too, and a group of Jains backed Chanakya in his political machinations). Later on, Chandragupta Maurya took Jainism on abdicating his throne which passed to his Son Bindusara who was an Ajivaka. Even Ashoka was practising Ajivaka who before accession to throne became Buddhist. Bindusara was born before his father ever became Emperor so the below legend is definitely not true. Ashoka's daughter was married in 265 BC and his son Kunala was 18 years of age in 269 BC which means that even the princes married early, Ashoka was born 310 BC and Bindusara around 330 BC. Bindusara means one who encompasses all that is need to be known.
Later on, Ajivikism which was the official religion of the empire since the Kalinga War (261 BC) and for 14 years afterwards, declined and merged into traditional Hinduism. What has been left are a mish mash of contradictory Buddhist and Jaina legends which are even rejected by Sinhalese chronicles.
According to a legend which is a later jaina invention, while Chanakya served as the Prime Minister of Chandragupta Maurya, he started adding small amounts of poison in Chandragupta's food so that he would get used to it. The aim of this was to prevent the Emperor from being poisoned by enemies. One day the queen, Durdha, shared the food with the Emperor while she was pregnant. Since she was not used to eating poisoned food, she died. Chanakya decided that the baby should not die; hence he cut open the belly of the queen and took out the baby. A drop (bindu in Sanskrit) of poison had passed to the baby's head, and hence Chanakya named him Bindusara. Bindusara would go on to become a great king and to father the greatest Mauryan Emperor since Chandragupta - Asoka.
When Bindusara became a youth, Chandragupta gave up the throne and followed the Jain saint Bhadrabahu to present day Karnataka and settled in a place known as Shravana Belagola. He lived as an ascetic for some years and died of voluntary starvation according to Jain tradition.
Chanakya meanwhile stayed as the Prime Minister of Bindusara. Bindusara also had a minister named Subandhu who did not like Chanakya. One day he told Bindusara that Chanakya was responsible for the murder of his mother. Bindusara asked the nurses who confirmed this story and he became very angry with Chanakya.
It is said that Chanakya, on hearing that the Emperor was angry with him, thought that anyway he was at the end of his life. He donated all his wealth to the poor, widows and orphans and sat on a dung heap, prepared to die by total abstinence from food and drink. Bindusara meanwhile heard the full story of his birth from the nurses and rushed to beg forgiveness of Chanakya. But Chanakya would not relent. Bindusara went back and vent his fury on Subandhu, who asked for time to beg for forgiveness from Chanakya.
Subandhu, who still hated Chanakya, wanted to make sure that Chanakya did not return to the city. So he arranged for a ceremony of respect, but unnoticed by anyone, slipped a smoldering charcoal ember inside the dung heap. Aided by the wind, the dung heap swiftly caught fire, and the man behind the Mauryan Empire and the author of Arthashastra was burned to death.
His main philosophy was "A debt should be paid off till the last penny; An enemy should be destroyed without a trace". Ironically, Subandhu followed his main philosophy and destroyed him without a trace.
Pali version
Chanakya is a Brahmin from Takshila[13].
Other versions
The classical Sanskrit play by Vishakhadatta, Mudrarakshasa, is one popular source of Chankaya lore. (The play has been dated between 4th and 9th century CE).
A South Indian group of Brahmins in Tamil Nadu called Sholiyar or Chozhiyar, claim that Chanakya was one of them. Though this may sound very improbable, considering the vast distance between present day Tamilnadu in the south and Magadha in Bihar, it finds curious echos in the Abhidhānchintāmani, where Hemachandra claims that Chankya was a Dramila[15]("Dramila" is believed to be the root of the word "Dravida" by some scholars).
There is also a claim that Chanakya belonged to the Brahmin group from the present day Kerala. In true Hindu tradition he is said to have persuaded King Chandragupta Maurya to forsake his throne and to join him in moving to the last phase of one's life viz. Sanyasa. Accordingly, he took the King along with him to South India where both of them carried prolonged meditation and finally achieved Moksha.
Kautilya was educated at Taxila or Takshashila,[16] in present day Pakistan. The new states (in present-day Bihar and Uttar Pradesh) by the northern high road of commerce along the base of the Himalayas maintained contact with Takshasilâ and at the eastern end of the northern high road (uttarapatha) was the kingdom of Magadha with its capital city, Pataliputra, now known as Patna. Chanakya's life was connected to these two cities, Pataliputra and Taxila.
In his early years he was tutored extensively in the Vedas - Chanakya memorized them completely at a very early age.[verification needed] He was also taught mathematics, geography and science along with religion.[verification needed] Later he travelled to Taxila, where he became a teacher of politics.[verification needed] Chanakya taught subjects using the best of practical knowledge acquired by the teachers. The age of entering the University was sixteen. The branches of study most sought after around India at that time ranged from law, medicine, warfare and other disciplines. Two of his more famous students were Bhadrabhatta and Purushdutta.[verification needed]
Political turmoil in Western India at that time caused by Greek invasion forced Chanakya to leave the University environment for the city of Pataliputra (presently known as Patna, in the state of Bihar, India), which was ruled by the Nanda king Dhanananda. Although Chanakya initially prospered in his relations with the ruler, being a blunt person he was soon disliked by Dhanananda. This ended with Chanakya being removed from an official position he enjoyed.
According to the Kashmiri version of his legend, Chāṇakya a thorn had pricked his foot, he uprooted the tree and poured buttermilk in the roots . [17]
References
1. ^ Boesche, Roger (January 2003). "Kautilya's Arthaśāstra on War and Diplomacy in Ancient India". The Journal of Military History 67 (1): 9–37. doi:10.1353/jmh.2003.0006. ISSN 0899-3718. "Kautilya [is] sometimes called a chancellor or prime minister to Chandragupta, something like a Bismarck…"
2. ^ a b c Mabbett, I. W. (April 1964). "The Date of the Arthaśhāstra". Journal of the American Oriental Society 84 (2): 162–169. doi:10.2307/597102. ISSN 0003-0279.
3. ^ L. K. Jha, K. N. Jha (1998). "Chanakya: the pioneer economist of the world", International Journal of Social Economics 25 (2-4), p. 267-282.
4. ^ Waldauer, C., Zahka, W.J. and Pal, S. 1996. Kautilya's Arthashastra: A neglected precursor to classical economics. Indian Economic Review, Vol. XXXI, No. 1, pp. 101-108.
5. ^ Tisdell, C. 2003. A Western perspective of Kautilya's Arthasastra: does it provide a basis for economic science? Economic Theory, Applications and Issues Working Paper No. 18. Brisbane: School of Economics, The University of Queensland.
6. ^ Sihag, B.S. 2007. Kautilya on institutions, governance, knowledge, ethics and prosperity. Humanomics 23 (1): 5-28.
7. ^ Herbert H. Gowen (1929). "The Indian Machiavelli" or Political Theory in India Two Thousand Years Ago, Political Science Quarterly 44 (2), p. 173-192.
8. ^ Trautmann, Thomas R. (1971). Kautilya and the Arthaśhāstra: A Statistical Investigation of the Authorship and Evolution of the Text. Leiden: E.J. Brill. pp. 10.
9. ^ Trautmann 1971:10 "while in his character as author of an arthaśhāstra he is generally referred to by his gotra name, Kautilya."
10. ^ Mabbett 1964
Trautmann 1971:5 "the very last verse of the work...is the unique instance of the personal name Vishnugupta rather than the gotra name Kautilya in the Arthaśhāstra.
11. ^ Mabbett 1964: "References to the work in other Sanskrit literature attribute it variously to Vishnugupta, Chanakya and Kautilya. The same individual is meant in each case. The Pańcatantra explicitly identifies Chanakya with Vishnugupta."
12. ^ Trautmann 1971:67 'T. Burrow ("Cāṇakya and Kauṭalya", Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute 48–49 1968, p. 17 ff.) has now shown that Cāṇakya is also a gotra name, which in conjunction with other evidence makes it clear that we are dealing with two distinct persons, the minister Cāṇakya of legend and Kauṭilya the compiler of the Arthaśāstra. Furthermore, this throws the balance of evidence in favor of the view that the second name was originally spelt Kauṭalya and that after the compiler of the Arth. came to be identified with the Mauryan minister it was altered to Kautilya (as it appears in Āryaśūra, Viśākhadatta and Bāna) for the sake of the pun. We must then assume that the later spelling subsequently replaced the earlier in the gotra lists and elsewhere.'
13. ^ a b c Trautmann 1971:"The Chāṇakya-Chandragupta-Kathā"
14. ^ the Pariśiṣṭa Parvan by Hemacandra
15. ^ R.C. Majumdar, A. D. Pusalker, A. K. Majumdar et al,The History and Culture of the Indian People - The age of imperial unity, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Mumbai, 1962
16. ^ Chanakya-Niti
17. ^ Trautmann 1971:31
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பூஞ்ச் மாவட்டம் ஜம்மு கஷ்மீர் மாநிலம் பிப்ரவரி 4-ம் தேதி பாகிஸ்தான் எல்லை பகுதியில் இருந்து ஹிஸ்புல் முஷாகிதீன் கமேண்டோ தலைமையில் 8 பேர் கஷ்மீர் மாநிலத்திற்குள் நுழைகின்றனர். ஜம்மு கஷ்மீர் மாநிலத்தில் எல்லையில் அப்போது திடீரென பாகிஸ்தான் ராணுவம் அத்துமீறி துப்பாக்கி சூடு நடத்தியது. இந்த துப்பாக்கி சூட்டில் இந்திய எல்லைபாதுகாப்பு படையின் உயர் அதிகாரி ஒருவர் உயிரிழந்தது குறிப்பிடத்தக்கது. பாகிஸ்தான் ராணுவம் கடந்த சில மாதங்களாக அமைதியாக இருந்து திடீரென துப்பாக்கியால் சுட்டதன் காரணம் பலருக்கு புரியாமல் இருக்கலாம். கடந்த கால பாகிஸ்தான் ராணுவத்தின் அத்துமீறிய துப்பாக்கி சூட்டை எடுத்துகொண்டு பார்த்தால் ஒன்று புலப்படும். அதாவது இந்திய எல்லை பாதுகாப்பு படையினரின் கவனத்தை திசை திருப்பி தீவிரவாதிகளை இந்தியாவில் நுழைய விடுவது. பிப்ரவரி மாதமும் பாகிஸ்தான் ராணுவத்தின் அத்துமீறிய துப்பாக்கி சூட்டின்போது சுமார் 30 பேர் இந்தியாவில் நுழைந்துள்ளனர்.
இந்தியாவில் தேர்தல் நடைபெறும் சமயத்தில் இவர்கள் தேர்தலில் குழறுபடிகள் மற்றும் தீவிரவாத செயல்கள் செய்ய நுழையலாம் என்றும் அவர்களை தேடி அழிக்கும் பணியில் ஈடுபட்டார்கள். இந்த நேரத்தில் குப்வாரா மாவட்டத்தில் ஒரு கிராமத்தில் தீவிரவாதிகள் தங்கி இருந்த இடத்தை கண்டறிந்து இந்திய ராணுவம் தாக்குதல் நடத்தியது இந்த தாக்குதலில் பல தீவிரவாதிகள் கொல்லபட்டனர். இந்திய ராணுவ தரப்பில் ஒரு மேஜர் உட்பட 4 பேர் பலியானார்கள்.
தப்பி ஓடிய பிற தீவிரவாதிகளை பிடிக்கும் பணி தொடர்ந்து நடத்து வருகிறது. இந்த கும்பல் பற்றிய விசாரணையில் இவர்களில் பலர் உள்ளூர்வாசிகள் என்றும் ஒரு சில தீவிரவாதிகள் எல்லை கடந்து வந்தனர் என்றும் தெரியவந்தது. இவர்களில் ஒருவர் கூட பிப்ரவரி மாதம் இந்தியாவில் நுழைந்தவர்கள் இல்லை என்று தெரியவந்து. தீவிரவிசாரணைக்கு பிறகு உளவுத்துறைக்கு அதிர்ச்சிகரமான தகவல் ஒன்று கிடைத்து. அது பிப்ரவரி மாதம் இந்தியா எல்லை வழியாக கஷ்மீருக்குள் நுழைந்தவர்கள் தாலிபான்கள் என்ற தகவல். இந்த தகவல் கஷ்மீர் முதல் மந்திரிக்கும் மத்திய உள்துறை செயலகத்திற்கு தகவல் தரபட்டது. தாலிபான்கள் இந்தியாவில் நுழைந்து விட்டார்கள் அவர்களின் அடுத்த நடவடிக்கை என்னவாக இருக்கும் என்று விசாரணைகள் தீவிரப்படுத்தப்பட்டன. முதற்கட்ட விசாரணையில் தாலிபான்களை பற்றி தெரிய வந்த செய்தி நம்ப முடியாதவைகளாக இருக்கின்றது. தாலிபான்களுக்கு லஷ்கர்-இ-தொய்பா போன்று இந்திய நகரங்களில் குண்டு வைப்பதோ அல்லது தாக்குதல் நடத்தும் நோக்கமோ இல்லை. ஹிஸ்புல் முசாகிதீன் போன்று தங்களது தனி ஜம்மு கஷ்மீருக்காக போராடும் நோக்கமும் இல்லை. தாலிபான் தங்களது சட்டத்தை இந்திய இஸ்லாமியர்களிடமும் மெல்ல மெல்ல திணிக்க ஆரம்பிக்கும் பணியாக அதற்கான முதல் தள நடவடிக்கைகளுக்காக இந்த 30 தாலிபான்களும் இந்தியாவில் நுழைந்துள்ளனர். ஆப்கான் பாகிஸ்தான் என வந்த தாலிபான்கள் தற்போது இந்தியாவிலும் இவர்களின் நடவடிக்கைகளை ஆரம்பித்து விட்டனர். லஷ்கர் தீவிரவாதிகளுக்கு தாலிபான்கள் இந்தியாவில் நுழைவது பிடிக்கவில்லை. தாலிபான்கள் தங்களது தீவிரவாத செயல்களுக்கு தடையாக இருப்பார்கள் என்று நினைப்பிலோ என்னவோ அவர்களை மீண்டும் ஸ்வாட் பள்ளத்தாக்கு பகுதிக்கு திரும்புமாறு லஷ்கர் தீவிரவாதியின் கமேண்டோ ஒருவர் தாலிபான் தீவிரவாதிகளுக்கு உத்தரவிட்டார். ஆனால் தாலிபான் இதற்கு எந்த பதிலும் சொல்லாமல் தவிர்த்துவிட்டது. தாலிபான் மற்றும் லஷ்கர் கமேண்டோக்களுக்கு இடையினாலான பேச்சை ஐபிஎன் லைவ் என்ற டி.வி சமீபத்தில் வெளியிட்டது. இந்த டி.வி சேனல் மும்பை தாக்குதல் தீவிரவாதிகளின் பேச்சுக்களை (நர்மன் ஹவுஸ் தாக்குதல்) வெளியிட்டது என்பது குறிப்பிடத்தக்கது.
அந்த பேச்சு வருமாறு
லஷ்கர் கமேண்டோ : நாங்கள் முக்கியமான சில நடவடிக்கைகளை செயல் படுத்தத்திட்டமிட்டு கொண்டிருக்கிறோம். இந்த சமயத்தில் நீங்கள் ஏன் இந்தியாவிற்கு சென்றீர்கள்?
இந்தியாவில் உள்ள தாலியான் : எங்களது பிரச்சனையில் நீங்கள் தலையிட வேண்டாம்
ல க : நீங்கள் உடனே ஸ்வாட்டிற்கு திரும்புங்கள்
தா : எங்களின் நோக்கம் இன்னும் ஆரம்பிக்கவே இல்லை
ல க : இந்திய உளவுத்துறைக்கு நீங்கள் இந்தியாவில் நுழைந்தது தெரிந்துவிட்டது.
தா : அது பற்றி எங்களுக்கு கவலையில்லை
ல க : நிலைமை மோசமாவதற்குள் திரும்பி விடுங்கள்
தா : எங்களுக்கு அறிவுறை கூறுவதை நிறுத்திவிட்டு செய்வதை ஒழுங்காக செய்யப்பாருங்கள்
இந்த சில நிமிட பேச்சு உளவுத்துறைக்கு தெரியாமல் இருக்க வாய்ப்பில்லை.
அப்படி என்றால் கஷ்மீரில் தாலிபான்களின் ராஜ்யம் ஆரம்பித்துவிட்டதா? இனி கஷ்மீர பெண்களும் தாலிபான்களின் சட்டதிட்டங்களுக்கு உட்பட வேண்டுமா இல்லை என்றால் தற்போது ஆப்கான், பாகிஸ்தானில் நடக்கும் பெண்களுக்கு எதிரான கொடுமைகள் ஜம்முவிலும் ஆரம்பிக்கப்போகிறதா?
எது எப்படியோ தாலிபான்கள் தங்களது விஷ விருட்சத்தின் விதைகளை இந்தியாவிலும் தூவ ஆரம்பித்து விட்டார்கள். இந்திய அரசோ தேர்தல் பரபரப்பில் இவர்களின் நடவடிக்கைகளை கண்டுகொள்ளாமல் இருக்கிறது.
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பூஞ்ச் மாவட்டம் ஜம்மு கஷ்மீர் மாநிலம் பிப்ரவரி 4-ம் தேதி பாகிஸ்தான் எல்லை பகுதியில் இருந்து ஹிஸ்புல் முஷாகிதீன் கமேண்டோ தலைமையில் 8 பேர் கஷ்மீர் மாநிலத்திற்குள் நுழைகின்றனர். ஜம்மு கஷ்மீர் மாநிலத்தில் எல்லையில் அப்போது திடீரென பாகிஸ்தான் ராணுவம் அத்துமீறி துப்பாக்கி சூடு நடத்தியது. இந்த துப்பாக்கி சூட்டில் இந்திய எல்லைபாதுகாப்பு படையின் உயர் அதிகாரி ஒருவர் உயிரிழந்தது குறிப்பிடத்தக்கது. பாகிஸ்தான் ராணுவம் கடந்த சில மாதங்களாக அமைதியாக இருந்து திடீரென துப்பாக்கியால் சுட்டதன் காரணம் பலருக்கு புரியாமல் இருக்கலாம். கடந்த கால பாகிஸ்தான் ராணுவத்தின் அத்துமீறிய துப்பாக்கி சூட்டை எடுத்துகொண்டு பார்த்தால் ஒன்று புலப்படும். அதாவது இந்திய எல்லை பாதுகாப்பு படையினரின் கவனத்தை திசை திருப்பி தீவிரவாதிகளை இந்தியாவில் நுழைய விடுவது. பிப்ரவரி மாதமும் பாகிஸ்தான் ராணுவத்தின் அத்துமீறிய துப்பாக்கி சூட்டின்போது சுமார் 30 பேர் இந்தியாவில் நுழைந்துள்ளனர்.
இந்தியாவில் தேர்தல் நடைபெறும் சமயத்தில் இவர்கள் தேர்தலில் குழறுபடிகள் மற்றும் தீவிரவாத செயல்கள் செய்ய நுழையலாம் என்றும் அவர்களை தேடி அழிக்கும் பணியில் ஈடுபட்டார்கள். இந்த நேரத்தில் குப்வாரா மாவட்டத்தில் ஒரு கிராமத்தில் தீவிரவாதிகள் தங்கி இருந்த இடத்தை கண்டறிந்து இந்திய ராணுவம் தாக்குதல் நடத்தியது இந்த தாக்குதலில் பல தீவிரவாதிகள் கொல்லபட்டனர். இந்திய ராணுவ தரப்பில் ஒரு மேஜர் உட்பட 4 பேர் பலியானார்கள்.
தப்பி ஓடிய பிற தீவிரவாதிகளை பிடிக்கும் பணி தொடர்ந்து நடத்து வருகிறது. இந்த கும்பல் பற்றிய விசாரணையில் இவர்களில் பலர் உள்ளூர்வாசிகள் என்றும் ஒரு சில தீவிரவாதிகள் எல்லை கடந்து வந்தனர் என்றும் தெரியவந்தது. இவர்களில் ஒருவர் கூட பிப்ரவரி மாதம் இந்தியாவில் நுழைந்தவர்கள் இல்லை என்று தெரியவந்து. தீவிரவிசாரணைக்கு பிறகு உளவுத்துறைக்கு அதிர்ச்சிகரமான தகவல் ஒன்று கிடைத்து. அது பிப்ரவரி மாதம் இந்தியா எல்லை வழியாக கஷ்மீருக்குள் நுழைந்தவர்கள் தாலிபான்கள் என்ற தகவல். இந்த தகவல் கஷ்மீர் முதல் மந்திரிக்கும் மத்திய உள்துறை செயலகத்திற்கு தகவல் தரபட்டது. தாலிபான்கள் இந்தியாவில் நுழைந்து விட்டார்கள் அவர்களின் அடுத்த நடவடிக்கை என்னவாக இருக்கும் என்று விசாரணைகள் தீவிரப்படுத்தப்பட்டன. முதற்கட்ட விசாரணையில் தாலிபான்களை பற்றி தெரிய வந்த செய்தி நம்ப முடியாதவைகளாக இருக்கின்றது. தாலிபான்களுக்கு லஷ்கர்-இ-தொய்பா போன்று இந்திய நகரங்களில் குண்டு வைப்பதோ அல்லது தாக்குதல் நடத்தும் நோக்கமோ இல்லை. ஹிஸ்புல் முசாகிதீன் போன்று தங்களது தனி ஜம்மு கஷ்மீருக்காக போராடும் நோக்கமும் இல்லை. தாலிபான் தங்களது சட்டத்தை இந்திய இஸ்லாமியர்களிடமும் மெல்ல மெல்ல திணிக்க ஆரம்பிக்கும் பணியாக அதற்கான முதல் தள நடவடிக்கைகளுக்காக இந்த 30 தாலிபான்களும் இந்தியாவில் நுழைந்துள்ளனர். ஆப்கான் பாகிஸ்தான் என வந்த தாலிபான்கள் தற்போது இந்தியாவிலும் இவர்களின் நடவடிக்கைகளை ஆரம்பித்து விட்டனர். லஷ்கர் தீவிரவாதிகளுக்கு தாலிபான்கள் இந்தியாவில் நுழைவது பிடிக்கவில்லை. தாலிபான்கள் தங்களது தீவிரவாத செயல்களுக்கு தடையாக இருப்பார்கள் என்று நினைப்பிலோ என்னவோ அவர்களை மீண்டும் ஸ்வாட் பள்ளத்தாக்கு பகுதிக்கு திரும்புமாறு லஷ்கர் தீவிரவாதியின் கமேண்டோ ஒருவர் தாலிபான் தீவிரவாதிகளுக்கு உத்தரவிட்டார். ஆனால் தாலிபான் இதற்கு எந்த பதிலும் சொல்லாமல் தவிர்த்துவிட்டது. தாலிபான் மற்றும் லஷ்கர் கமேண்டோக்களுக்கு இடையினாலான பேச்சை ஐபிஎன் லைவ் என்ற டி.வி சமீபத்தில் வெளியிட்டது. இந்த டி.வி சேனல் மும்பை தாக்குதல் தீவிரவாதிகளின் பேச்சுக்களை (நர்மன் ஹவுஸ் தாக்குதல்) வெளியிட்டது என்பது குறிப்பிடத்தக்கது.
அந்த பேச்சு வருமாறு
லஷ்கர் கமேண்டோ : நாங்கள் முக்கியமான சில நடவடிக்கைகளை செயல் படுத்தத்திட்டமிட்டு கொண்டிருக்கிறோம். இந்த சமயத்தில் நீங்கள் ஏன் இந்தியாவிற்கு சென்றீர்கள்?
இந்தியாவில் உள்ள தாலியான் : எங்களது பிரச்சனையில் நீங்கள் தலையிட வேண்டாம்
ல க : நீங்கள் உடனே ஸ்வாட்டிற்கு திரும்புங்கள்
தா : எங்களின் நோக்கம் இன்னும் ஆரம்பிக்கவே இல்லை
ல க : இந்திய உளவுத்துறைக்கு நீங்கள் இந்தியாவில் நுழைந்தது தெரிந்துவிட்டது.
தா : அது பற்றி எங்களுக்கு கவலையில்லை
ல க : நிலைமை மோசமாவதற்குள் திரும்பி விடுங்கள்
தா : எங்களுக்கு அறிவுறை கூறுவதை நிறுத்திவிட்டு செய்வதை ஒழுங்காக செய்யப்பாருங்கள்
இந்த சில நிமிட பேச்சு உளவுத்துறைக்கு தெரியாமல் இருக்க வாய்ப்பில்லை.
அப்படி என்றால் கஷ்மீரில் தாலிபான்களின் ராஜ்யம் ஆரம்பித்துவிட்டதா? இனி கஷ்மீர பெண்களும் தாலிபான்களின் சட்டதிட்டங்களுக்கு உட்பட வேண்டுமா இல்லை என்றால் தற்போது ஆப்கான், பாகிஸ்தானில் நடக்கும் பெண்களுக்கு எதிரான கொடுமைகள் ஜம்முவிலும் ஆரம்பிக்கப்போகிறதா?
எது எப்படியோ தாலிபான்கள் தங்களது விஷ விருட்சத்தின் விதைகளை இந்தியாவிலும் தூவ ஆரம்பித்து விட்டார்கள். இந்திய அரசோ தேர்தல் பரபரப்பில் இவர்களின் நடவடிக்கைகளை கண்டுகொள்ளாமல் இருக்கிறது.
கோமாளிகளின் கூத்து !
நடிகர் மன்சூர்அலிகான் தன்னை டி.ராஜேந்தரின் இலட்சிய திமுகவில் இணைத்துக்கொண்டார். மன்சூர்அலிகான் ராஜேந்தருக்கு சால்வை அணிவித்து வீரவாள் பரிசு வழங்கி கட்சியில் இணைந்தார்.
இது குறித்து மன்சூர் அலிகான், இலங்கை தமிழர்களை காக்க கூட்டு பிரார்த்தனைக்கு விஜயகாந்த் அழைப்பு விடுத்துள்ளது வேடிக்கையாக உள்ளது. சினிமாவில் மட்டும் கதாநாயகியை காப்பாற்றுவதற்கு வில்லன்களை பந்தாடுகிறார்.
நிஜத்தில் தமிழர்களை பாதுகாக்க மண்டியிட வேண்டும் என்கிறார். ராஜேந்தர் தமிழ் இன உணர்வுமிக்கவர். அவருடன் இணைந்து இலங்கை தமிழருக்காக குரல் கொடுப்போம்'' என்றார்.
இது குறித்து மன்சூர் அலிகான், இலங்கை தமிழர்களை காக்க கூட்டு பிரார்த்தனைக்கு விஜயகாந்த் அழைப்பு விடுத்துள்ளது வேடிக்கையாக உள்ளது. சினிமாவில் மட்டும் கதாநாயகியை காப்பாற்றுவதற்கு வில்லன்களை பந்தாடுகிறார்.
நிஜத்தில் தமிழர்களை பாதுகாக்க மண்டியிட வேண்டும் என்கிறார். ராஜேந்தர் தமிழ் இன உணர்வுமிக்கவர். அவருடன் இணைந்து இலங்கை தமிழருக்காக குரல் கொடுப்போம்'' என்றார்.
ஜெ- யின் அதிரடி இப்போது தான் ஆரம்பம்!!
அ.தி.மு.க அறிவித்த 23 வேட்பாளர்களில் இரண்டு வேட்பாளர்கள் நேற்று அதிரடியாக மாற்றப்பட்டுள்ளனர்.
பெரம்பலூர் தொகுதி : பெரம்பலூர் தொகுதியில் அ.தி.மு.க வேட்பாளராக மருதைராஜ் அறிவிக்கப்பட்டிருந்தார். திமுக சார்பில் நடிகர் நெப்போலியன் போட்டியிடுகிறார். நெப்போலியனுக்கு ஈடு கொடுத்து தேர்தலில் செலவு செய்ய முடியாத சூழ்நிலையில் மருதைராஜ் இருக்கிறார். வாடகை வீட்டில் கூடியிருக்கும் இவருக்கு பணபலம் இல்லாத சூழ்நிலையில் நெப்போலியனுக்கு ஈடுகொடுக்க முடியாது என ஜெயலலிதா முடிவு செய்து,
அவருக்குப் பதிலாக முன்னாள் அமைச்சர் கே.கே.பாலசுப்ரமணியத்தை வேட்பாளராக அறிவித்திருக்கிறார். முத்தரையர் சமுதாயத்தைச் சேர்ந்த இவர், நெப்போலியனுக்கு ஈடு கொடுத்து தேர்தலில் செலவு செய்வார்.
திருவள்ளூர் தொகுதி : பெரம்பலூர் தொகுதியில் அ.தி.மு.க வேட்பாளராக வக்கீல் ராஜன் அறிவிக்கப்பட்டிருந்தார். இவர் கிறிஸ்தவ மதத்தைச் சேர்ந்தவர். பிற்படுத்தப்பட்ட சமுதாயத்தைச் சேர்ந்தவராகக் கருதப்படுவதால் இவரை மாற்றி மாணவர் அணியைச் சேர்ந்த இன்பராஜ் வேட்பாளராக அறிவிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளார்.
பெரம்பலூர் தொகுதி : பெரம்பலூர் தொகுதியில் அ.தி.மு.க வேட்பாளராக மருதைராஜ் அறிவிக்கப்பட்டிருந்தார். திமுக சார்பில் நடிகர் நெப்போலியன் போட்டியிடுகிறார். நெப்போலியனுக்கு ஈடு கொடுத்து தேர்தலில் செலவு செய்ய முடியாத சூழ்நிலையில் மருதைராஜ் இருக்கிறார். வாடகை வீட்டில் கூடியிருக்கும் இவருக்கு பணபலம் இல்லாத சூழ்நிலையில் நெப்போலியனுக்கு ஈடுகொடுக்க முடியாது என ஜெயலலிதா முடிவு செய்து,
அவருக்குப் பதிலாக முன்னாள் அமைச்சர் கே.கே.பாலசுப்ரமணியத்தை வேட்பாளராக அறிவித்திருக்கிறார். முத்தரையர் சமுதாயத்தைச் சேர்ந்த இவர், நெப்போலியனுக்கு ஈடு கொடுத்து தேர்தலில் செலவு செய்வார்.
திருவள்ளூர் தொகுதி : பெரம்பலூர் தொகுதியில் அ.தி.மு.க வேட்பாளராக வக்கீல் ராஜன் அறிவிக்கப்பட்டிருந்தார். இவர் கிறிஸ்தவ மதத்தைச் சேர்ந்தவர். பிற்படுத்தப்பட்ட சமுதாயத்தைச் சேர்ந்தவராகக் கருதப்படுவதால் இவரை மாற்றி மாணவர் அணியைச் சேர்ந்த இன்பராஜ் வேட்பாளராக அறிவிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளார்.
தமிழக ஓட்டல்களில் காக்கா பிரியாணி!
கோவை மார்ச் 23 : தமிழக ஓட்டல்களில் காக்கா பிரியாணி! காக்கா சப்ளை செய்த 4 பேர் கைது - கோவையில் சிக்கன் என்ற பெயரில் ஓட்டல்களில் காக்கா பிரியாணி சப்ளை ஜோராக நடந்து வந்துள்ளது. காக்கையை வேட்டையாடி ஓட்டல்களுக்கு சப்ளை செய்த 4 பேர் கைது செய்யப்பட்டனர். இதுதொடர்பாக ஓட்டல் உரிமையாளர்களிடம் விசாரணை நடக்கிறது.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
July 22nd 2009 another Tsunami Prediction
“Hello there. I just wanted 2 let you know that please stay away from the beaches all around in the month of July. There is a prediction that there will be another tsunami hitting on July 22nd. It is also when there will be sun eclipse. Predicted that it is going 2 be really bad and countries like Malaysia (Sabah & Sarawak), Singapore, Maldives, Australia, Mauritius, Si Lanka, India, Indonesia, Philippines are going 2 be badly hit. Please try and stay away from the beaches in July. Better 2 be safe than sorry. Please pass the word around. Please also pray for all beings.”
Please be more cautious as the warnings has been given.
Please be more cautious as the warnings has been given.
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