Strange... :nuts:

http://www.hindu.com/2010/02/01/stories/2010020158620300.htm

VILLUPURAM: Of 80,498 pregnant women screened so far at Integrated Counselling and Testing Centres (ICTCs) across the district, 348 have tested positive for HIV, according to R. Palanisamy, Collector.

He was speaking at a HIV/AIDS review meeting held with officials of the Health Department here.

Mr. Palanisamy said that there were 32 ICTCs in the district of which 10 were functioning from Government Hospitals and 22 from Primary Health Centres.

Of the total number of pregnancies reported in the district, blood smear test was done in 87 per cent cases. Mr. Palanisamy called upon the medical fraternity to make sure that all pregnant women were covered under the scheme.

Mr. Palanisamy further said that to prevent HIV infection, Nevirapine tablets were being administered to pregnant women and Nevirapine drops to newborns.

All 108 ambulances should also stock the drug, both tablets and drops, in adequate quantity, the Collector said. He directed the Health Department to ensure that adequate number of blood test kits and protective kits for those who were attending to delivery should be kept in the Government Hospitals and the PHCs.

He exhorted non-governmental organisations to work alongside the Government Hospitals to get help to the HIV affected.

Joint Director of Health Services M. Dharamalingam and deputy directors (health) K.Krishnaraj and M.Geetha were present.

Time for some more freebies... :lol:

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/chennai/unemployment-figures-all-time-high-tn-530

Jan. 31: Unemployment in Tamil Nadu has nearly touched 10 per cent. While the national figure is 9.5 per cent, the state figure is a cause for worry for the DMK government.
According to data available up to December 31, 2009 with state government’s employment department, 62.1 lakh educated people registered in the 35 employment exchanges across the state are waiting for jobs. Over 10 lakh unemployed were added between 2007 and 2009.
The number of unemployed up to December 31, 2007 was 51.51 lakh, according to the data. Twelve exchanges, including the ones in Chennai, Coimbatore, Madurai and Nagercoil, reported higher numbers of registered unemployed, reflecting the prevalence of education in these parts. The numbers, however, do not reflect the total unemployment in the state.
The department says the situation is not bleak. “Of those registered, about 7,979 B.Ed qualified teachers were appointed in the government sector in 2008. Till September 2009, we have recruited about 18,183 candidates and 6,587 of them are women,” said Mr A. S. Jeevarathinam, commissioner of employment and training.
Out of the total unemployed, over 10,000 are physically challenged. “The chief minister recently gave appointment orders to 47 physically challenged,” pointed out another official.

As per Union Minister Mr Vasan, there are around 46 Lakhs Keralites in TN. Obviously they are well settled and fully occupied. These guys registering with Govt. employment Exchanges and waiting for "Invitation" must be less competent with no enterprise to leave such a large space to their neighbours.

Parents should push them to skill themselves and survive...

Time for some more freebies... :lol:

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/chennai/unemployment-figures-all-time-high-tn-530

Jan. 31: Unemployment in Tamil Nadu has nearly touched 10 per cent. While the national figure is 9.5 per cent, the state figure is a cause for worry for the DMK government.
According to data available up to December 31, 2009 with state government’s employment department, 62.1 lakh educated people registered in the 35 employment exchanges across the state are waiting for jobs. Over 10 lakh unemployed were added between 2007 and 2009.
The number of unemployed up to December 31, 2007 was 51.51 lakh, according to the data. Twelve exchanges, including the ones in Chennai, Coimbatore, Madurai and Nagercoil, reported higher numbers of registered unemployed, reflecting the prevalence of education in these parts. The numbers, however, do not reflect the total unemployment in the state.
The department says the situation is not bleak. “Of those registered, about 7,979 B.Ed qualified teachers were appointed in the government sector in 2008. Till September 2009, we have recruited about 18,183 candidates and 6,587 of them are women,” said Mr A. S. Jeevarathinam, commissioner of employment and training.
Out of the total unemployed, over 10,000 are physically challenged. “The chief minister recently gave appointment orders to 47 physically challenged,” pointed out another official.

This cannot be 100% true.. This is just the number of registered applicants in employment exchanges waiting for GOVT jobs. I know many people just register employment exchange but have a good packages in Private organizations in Tirupur and Coimbatore. There is no such measures to identify if all the applicants registered in employment exchange are jobless.

I haven't invented it yet.

I couldn't tell ;)

..ah but where can I BUY a tumble dryer

the old machine's too noisy !!

I noticed central plan outlays for TN was 16000 crores for 2008 and around 44000 crores for AP and 22000 crores for Karnataka, 25000 for MH (which is very less)


I wonder why this discrepancy? on what basis does central govt allocate funds?

I noticed central plan outlays for TN was 16000 crores for 2008 and around 44000 crores for AP and 22000 crores for Karnataka, 25000 for MH (which is very less)


I wonder why this discrepancy? on what basis does central govt allocate funds?
This is not purely a central govt decision. They work with the state hand in hand. TN is not thinking big. There were lots of press articles to suggest increasing the plan size in the past.

If state govt can show some good usage then they can get more funds.
In last 5 years Andhra implemented lots of huge irrigation projects worth billions and that is the reason their agri. GDP jumped a lot while TN is suffering.

கோவையில் சொகுசு பஸ்கள் இயக்குவது யாருக்காக? விஜயகாந்த் கேள்வி

சென்னை: கோவையில் ஏழைகள் மற்றும் நடுத்தர மக்கள் பயன்படுத்தும் சாதாரண கட்டண பேருந்துகளை நி்றுத்திவிட்டு அதிக கட்டணத்தில் மிதவை பேருந்துகள் இயக்குவதற்கு தேமுதிக தலைவர் விஜயகாந்த் கண்டனம் தெரிவித்துள்ளார்.

மேலும் உலகத் தமிழ் மாநாட்டிற்கு வரும் வெளிநாட்டு மக்களின் கண்களை குளிர்விக்கவே இந்த ஏற்பாடு என்றும் அவர் குற்றம்சாட்டியுள்ளார்.

இதுகுறித்து விஜயகாந்த் வெளியிட்டுள்ள அறிக்கையில், 'கோவை மாநகரில் ஏழை, எளிய, நடுத்தர மக்கள் இதுவரை பயன்படுத்தி வந்த பேருந்துகள் எந்த விதமான முன் அறிவிப்புமின்றி நிறுத்தப்பட்டன.

இவற்றுக்கு பதிலாக 200 புதிய மிதவை பேருந்துகளை துணை முதல்வர் ஸ்டாலின் வந்து இயக்கி வைத்துள்ளார். இவற்றில் அதிக கட்டணம் வசூலிக்கப்படுகிறது.

ஏற்கனவே ரூ.2 ஆக இருந்த சாதாரண பஸ் கட்டணம் தற்போது ரூ.5 ஆகவும், 3 ரூபாய் கட்டணம் ரூ.7 ஆகவும் உயர்த்தப்பட்டது பொதுமக்களுக்கும், நடுத்தர மக்களுக்கும் மிகுந்த சிரமத்தை ஏற்படுத்தியுள்ளது.

தினமும் வேலைக்குச் செல்லும் பொதுமக்களும், காய்கறி விற்க செல்கின்ற தாய்மார்களும், கூலி வேலைக்கு செல்லும் தொழிலாளர்கள் இந்த கூடுதல் செலவை எப்படி சமாளிக்க முடியும்?.

பழைய பஸ்களுக்கு பதிலாக புதிய பஸ்கள் விடப்பட்டது என்று முதலில் மக்கள் மகிழ்ச்சியடைந்தனர். பிறகு இரண்டு மடங்கு கட்டணம் உயர்த்தப்பட்டுள்ளது என்பதை நினைத்தால் அதிர்ச்சி தான் மிஞ்சியது.

ஏற்கனவே அத்தியாவசியப் பண்டங்களின் விலை உயர்வால் அவதிப்படுகின்றன மக்களுக்கு, நிவாரணம் அளிக்காமல் இருக்கின்ற செலவை கூட்டுகிறார்கள்.

திமுக அரசு நடத்தம் உலகத் தமிழ் செம்மொழி மாநாட்டையொட்டி அயல் நாட்டிலிருந்து வருகிறவர்களின் கண்களை குளிரச் செய்யவே இந்த புதிய பஸ்கள் விடப்பட்டுள்ளன.

ஆனால், அதே நேரத்தில் பொதுமக்கள் வயிறு எரியும் வகையில் கட்டணத்தை உயர்த்தலாமா?. மீண்டும் பழைய கட்டணத்தையே வசூலிக்க வற்புறுத்தி வருகிற 7ம் தேதி தேமுதிக கோவையில் கண்டன ஆர்ப்பாட்டம் நடத்தும் என்று கூறியுள்ளார்.

http://thatstamil.oneindia.in/news/2010/02/03/vijaykanth-critisizes-hi-tech-city.html

Taken from today's Time of India epaper, our politicians and sand mafia have killed all our rivers which is a matter of serious concern more than fighting neighboring states over Cauvery and Mullaiperiyar.


Unchecked mining plunders TN rivers

RECENT COURT ORDER DRAWS ATTENTION TO NEXUS BETWEEN POLITICIANS AND CONTRACTORS

A Subramani | TNN

Chennai: If there is one tribe which prays for rivers in the state to remain parched throughout the year, it is the sand mafia. And, if there is one tribe which commits every conceivable offence in the statute, and still gets away with it, it is the sand mafia, again.
“Names of some of the most powerful politicians of the day are dropped, and it is not surprising that the authorities do not take any action against those who plunder Palar, Cauvery, Bhavani, Vaigai and Tamirabarani river basins,” says S Yuvaraj, president of the Tamil Nadu Sand Lorry Owners Federation. The sand mafia, says Yuvaraj, has trifurcated the state into three regions — Madurai, Tiruchi and Chennai. Each region has been handed over to three different persons, who claim proximity to people in power, he says.
Though the provisions of the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act prohibit use of heavy machinery for mining purposes, and make it clear that no mining should be done beyond a depth of three metres, both the clauses are not followed by the miners. “No quarry in the state is less than three-feet-deep. You can witness mountains of mined sand and seemingly bottomless pits dotting the riverbeds in Tamil Nadu,” Yuvaraj says. A recent high court order directing the Vellore collector to take action against those violating mining rules in the district and loading up to nine units of sand in lorries, as against the permitted quantity of only four units, has laid bare the rampant violation of not just mining laws but also the Motor Vehicle rules.
Thanks to a mischievous permission granted by the high court a couple of years ago, the state is full of so-called ‘second-sale points’ where those who ‘buy’ mined sand from the PWD-operated quarries ‘filter’ them and sell ‘clean’ sand for a higher price. “Show me one filter machine these secondsale points engage for work. They accumulate the illegal sands and sell it f o r a higher rate,” Yuvaraj says, adding that as per the court orders, revenue authorities are not supposed to insist on verifying the route maps of the lorries. The statefixed rate for a unit of sand is just Rs 313, and a 10-tonne t r u ck with six wheels cannot carry more than two units of sand. If it is the multi-axled 10-wheelers, called Taurus vehicles, then the permitted quantity is four units of sand. But in reality, each tonne of sand is sold at Rs 500 per unit at the quarry point and Rs 750 per unit at the secondsale point. Receipts are given only at the rate of only Rs 313 per unit. Almost every vehicle carries four to nine tonnes of sand. Though the mining rules mandate that no quarrying shall be done between 6 pm and 6 am it is hardly followed. Two quarry points — Edayathur and Vallipuram near Madurantakam in
Kancheepuram — function round the clock, and cater to 1,000 lorries a day.
“Hundreds of lorries lining up river beds, machines employed to scoop up sand and trucks carrying heaps of sand beyond the permitted quantity — all these cannot be hidden. This obviously cannot happen without the connivance of authorities,” says Yuvaraj, who has been fighting the sand mafia for six years now....

Any recent visitors to Kanyakumari can tell whats the building in the extreme left?

http://dkn.dinakaran.com/pdf/2010/02/04/20100204a_005101007.jpg
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http://www.hindu.com/2010/02/04/stories/2010020451420300.htm

The conference is being held once in two years across the world

CUDDALORE: The Ulaga Saiva Peravai will organise the 12th World Saiva Conference at Sastri Hall in Annamalai University from February 5 to 7, according to Marudhachalam Adigalar of Perur Adheenam.

He, along with Kumaragurubara Adigalar of Gowmara Math, Sundaramurthy Thambiran of Thirupananthal Adheenam and Shanmugha Adigalar of Palani Adheenam, were briefing presspersons on the conference at Chidambaram on Wednesday.

The conference is being held once in two years across the world. Religious heads, savants and scholars in religious literature from 13 countries, including the U.K., Canada, France, Australia, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia and Mauritius, besides India, would deliberate on “Thiru Muraigal” at the conference, he said.

The objective of the conference was to rejuvenate the interest in religious literature among the youth.

When asked about the outcome of the previous conferences, Sundaramurthy Thambiran said that the Tamils all over the world were keen on fostering their faith.

Padmini Kabalimurthy, deputy secretary of the organising committee, said that discourses, seminars, devotional music and cultural events would mark the occasion.

On the inaugural day, a rally would be taken out in Chidambaram town in which images of 63 Nayanmars would be carried. Schoolchildren would also dress up like the Nayanmars.

‘Kolattam,’ ‘kummi,’ and recitation of hymns from ‘Thevaram’ would be held. Food, accommodation and transport would be provided free of cost to the delegates, she added.

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/chennai/global-warming-hits-pulicat-flamingos-404

Feb. 3: Pulicat lake, the second largest lagoon in India bordering Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, is now drying up and faces the effects of climate change and global warming, according to field biologists of the forest department.
“Summers are usually hot in Pulicat bird sanctuary with a maximum and minimum temperature ranging between 15 and 45 degrees Celsius, but last year, the maximum temperature hovered around 48 degrees, showing a 3 degrees Celsius rise,” Mr B.M. Gupta, biologist – Pulicat lake, Andhra Pradesh forest department, said.
Pointing out that the lake requires more scientific research and studies to ascertain these changes, Mr Gupta said the catchment areas of Pulicat lake were dry this year due to lack of adequate rainfall. According to official records, the lake has witnessed frequent monsoon failures since 1996, he said.
When contacted, district forest officer (Sulurpet division) V.N. Subbunachari said the delay in the arrival of monsoon and silting up of the sea mouths in the lake has affected the current migration of flamingos, the leading species at Pulicat. Last year, about 50,000 flamingos visited the lake but this year the number has dwindled to 25,000 and the migration of the birds is related to rainfall and climatic conditions, he said. Though flamingo sighting is relatively not that encouraging this season, the other major migratory birds like pelican, painted stork, open bill stork, duck varieties including shovellers and pintails are recorded in good numbers, he said.
According to Mr K.V.R.K. Thirunaranan, founder, Nature Trust, once migratory ducks used to flock in large numbers, invading the Kuduri tank located inside the sanctuary, but now the situation remains grim for them.
The only respite is highly endangered bar headed geese continue to figure in routine bird census of Pulicat. The sanctuary is also shrinking due to unchecked development activities and encroachments, alleged Mr Thirunaranan.

I guess the new buzzword Global warming is for next serious business invented by the westerners, showing the statistics of temperatures.

Global warming and cooling are a natural phenomenon pls check the histroy

For many, the history of Tamil cinema begins with M.G. Ramachandran and Sivaji Ganesan. For others, a few super-hit films of yesteryears are the only reminders of the existence of an early period. Tamil cinema, however, has a richer and longer history than any other film industry, according to Stephen Hughes, whose research on the origins of cinema in colonial Madras digs out the unread pages of the Tamil film history. He shares interesting information on the then Tamil cinema industry with S. Aishwarya.

The non-Indian film chronicler’s few accidental visits to the State and his love for the language gifted the film industry a rich account of its early period. A professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Stephen Hughes has put in nearly two decades of work funded by the American Institute of Indian Studies.

While there is a long list of claims about the beginning of Tamil cinema, Mr.Hughes places it somewhere around 1920s. “There is lot of obsession for ‘firsts.’ We have very poor research materials as cinema was not taken seriously as a medium in the early 20th century,” he explains. “Only big names are remembered. Records say nearly 1,300 silent films were made in Tamil…. of which, we have only 14.”

Among a handful of actors, M.G.R. has left a deep trail and his popularity has overshadowed his predecessors, he observes.

On the everlasting association between film and politics, Mr.Hughes says films were seen as an effective medium to spread political ideologies even before the M.G.R. period. “Regional parties found foothold through cinema. The Congress had divided opinions about embracing cinema as a propaganda medium but parties such as the DMK made the most out it.”

But even before the regional parties patronised Tamil cinema, mythological films infused subtle political ideologies to attract masses.

The evolution of cinema as a mass culture was not a sudden phenomenon, he says. When cinema was at its nascent stage, it was seen as the best platform to spread and share intellectual thoughts. In the 1930s, the industry was a melting-pot of literary and music activities. Leading poets, Tamil scholars and Carnatic musicians took to cinema to gain popularity. But progressively, films earned a stigma that made many dissociate themselves from the medium.

However, before Tamil cinema gained its footing, Hollywood cornered the market. “In fact in 1920s, nearly 90 per cent of the films screened were from Hollywood. Many even feared that too much of exposure to the Western world would denationalise the people,” said Mr.Hughes.

But as the country was moving towards independence, the foreign population started shifting out and to that effect Hollywood lost its prominence. “Much was experimented during that period. As there was no monopoly, everyone who wanted to try cinema, got a chance. It also worked out to be affordable,” he said.

That was also a period when cinema, theatre and music constantly overlapped. But as the market grew, the distinction became marked and each earned an identity for itself.

Mr.Hughes, backed with a lot of research materials, has a claim that cinema worked against the caste system in its early period.

“One could attribute it to the marketing strategies of the filmmakers. Cinema had a small market then and so the producers did not want to create a niche audience by putting one caste in the spotlight.” His two-decade-old research will be shaped into a couple of books by 2011, he promises.

http://beta.thehindu.com/arts/movies/article102276.ece?homepage=true

Hello Friends,

Happy to introduce this site through which we can track our local district news in Tamil and English.

It's a non-profitable website developed to help Tamilians to keep them updated with their local happenings...

http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/3742/tnview.jpg

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http://www.tnlivenews.co.cc/


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I guess the new buzzword Global warming is for next serious business invented by the westerners, showing the statistics of temperatures.

Global warming and cooling are a natural phenomenon pls check the histroy

Not the recent increase in temperatures. There is no precedent for that, atleast since temperatures were measured.

There are adequate translators in Parliament: Meira Kumar (http://www.hindu.com/2010/02/09/stories/2010020958130200.htm)

TAMBARAM: Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar on Monday said that as per the Constitution, debates in Parliament could be held only in English and Hindi. At the same time, there were adequate translators for the benefit of members speaking in regional languages.

She was responding to a query from mediapersons, after taking part in the fifth convocation of SRM University, in Kattankulathur, on Union Minister M.K.Azhagiri’s demand to speak in Tamil. On how the issue would be solved, Ms. Meira Kumar said: “I told him to come and meet me. If he meets me, we can find a solution. There were 16 interpreters for as many regional languages, including Tamil in Parliament.”

To a question on the high rate of absenteeism during the proceedings in the House, the Speaker said she would persuade the Members of Parliament to attend the sessions for smooth conduct of business in the House. She had been appealing to the MPs to attend and not absent themselves, especially when they had to raise questions. “There will be an improvement in the 15th Lok Sabha,” she said.

Now the proceedings were running relatively smooth, she said adding that if time was lost, the members too had to sit back late in the House.

On whether the MPs should be forced to attend the Parliamentary sessions, Ms. Meira Kumar said they were not school students.

“They [members] are under pressure. They are responsible as they have been elected by 10 to 12 lakh people. People will not elect irresponsible members,” she remarked.

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http://www.deccanchronicle.com/chennai/city-boy-1st-get-bionic-ear-680

Feb. 11: Three-year-old Koushik Gandhi, who was born deaf, has started speaking his first words now. Born without a cochlea and an auditory nerve, Koushik has been able to hear for the past 9 months, after doctors in the city implanted a futuristic ‘bio-electronic’ chip into the base of his brain to restore his sense of hearing. :cheers:

While the auditory brainstem implantation (ABI) technique has been used to restore hearing in adults, Koushik is the youngest patient in the world to undergo the complex surgery.

“Koushik was born without an inner ear, a condition that exists only in one in million babies,” said Dr Mohan Kameswaran, director of the Madras ENT Research Foundation, where the surgery was performed in January 2009.

To resolve this problem, a team of ENT specialists, a team of neurosurgeons from the voluntary health services and a team of experts from Germany implanted the 5 mm chip into the infant’s brain. Koushik now wears a tiny device around his ear consisting of a microphone and speech processor. The mini-computer receives the sound waves and transmits them by radio frequency waves to the chip that is permanently fixed in the child’s brain.

“The chip then stimulates the brain stem and helps the brain process the sounds,” said Dr Kameswaran. “In short, the child now hears through his brain, and not his ears.” :)

While this surgery spells hope for thousands of children, the Rs 10.5 lakh price tag is unaffordable for many.

Hats of to great Indian surgeons.

Madurai gilli - your great patriotism for Madurai, as seen in all the threads in the past couple of weeks, should digest this news :lol: (Just kidding...nothing personal)


http://www.deccanchronicle.com/chennai/kani-likely-replace-alagiri-186

New Delhi, Feb. 13: Lack of performance would be a major criteria for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to axe a section of ministers in his Cabinet.
Though no date has yet been fixed for a long overdue Cabinet reshuffle, a necessity is being felt to hasten the exercise. Some ministers are burdened with nearly four to five ministries and this is affecting the performance of the government.
There are also rumblings following the dominance of Lok Sabha members in the Union Council of Ministers. Of the existing strength of 69, fifty-six ministers are from the Lok Sabha. The government can still take three more ministers.
The Congress high command is also likely to hold talks with the DMK to replace Tamil Nadu chief minister M. Karunanidhi’s son, chemicals and fertilisers minister M.K. Azhagiri, with his sister Kanimozhi, a Rajya Sabha MP.
Meanwhile known to be close to the Prime Minister, the executive director of the World Bank, Mr Pulok Chatterjee, is tipped to replace Mr K.M. Chandrashekhar as Union Cabinet Secretary. Sources disclosed that of late the government had been feeling the need to expand the Cabinet since a section of ministers were managing a host of portfolios.
For instance, minister of state (independent charge) Prithivraj Chavan has five ministries in his kitty — science and technology, earth sciences, personnel, public grievances and pensions and parliamentary affairs and he is also MoS in charge of the PMO.

when TN will get rid of one family ruling govt...???:bash:

Madurai gilli - your great patriotism for Madurai, as seen in all the threads in the past couple of weeks, should digest this news :lol: (Just kidding...nothing personal)


http://www.deccanchronicle.com/chennai/kani-likely-replace-alagiri-186

New Delhi, Feb. 13: Lack of performance would be a major criteria for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to axe a section of ministers in his Cabinet.
Though no date has yet been fixed for a long overdue Cabinet reshuffle, a necessity is being felt to hasten the exercise. Some ministers are burdened with nearly four to five ministries and this is affecting the performance of the government.
There are also rumblings following the dominance of Lok Sabha members in the Union Council of Ministers. Of the existing strength of 69, fifty-six ministers are from the Lok Sabha. The government can still take three more ministers.
The Congress high command is also likely to hold talks with the DMK to replace Tamil Nadu chief minister M. Karunanidhi’s son, chemicals and fertilisers minister M.K. Azhagiri, with his sister Kanimozhi, a Rajya Sabha MP.
Meanwhile known to be close to the Prime Minister, the executive director of the World Bank, Mr Pulok Chatterjee, is tipped to replace Mr K.M. Chandrashekhar as Union Cabinet Secretary. Sources disclosed that of late the government had been feeling the need to expand the Cabinet since a section of ministers were managing a host of portfolios.
For instance, minister of state (independent charge) Prithivraj Chavan has five ministries in his kitty — science and technology, earth sciences, personnel, public grievances and pensions and parliamentary affairs and he is also MoS in charge of the PMO.

So ?

^^ soooooo called powerful politician (?) under performing in national level....:nuts::nuts:

Is it not Shame to MK and TN??

^^ soooooo called powerful politician (?) under performing in national level....:nuts::nuts:

Is it not Shame to MK and TN??

two weeks back went to madurai on the way to paramakudi.. bcause of Alagiri's birthday their were around atleast 100 flux per road may be more than that.. what a spend.. jaya was 1000 times better.. damn salaries to election commission or police is totally waste spend of tax payers money.. non sense to core.. they wasnt any word from poes graden also.. if they could have pooled all the money wasted on that day alone.. mdu electrification, flyover would have constructed :bash: no goon in this world would has birthday bash like this..

i paid auto 200 bucks for a usuall 50 rs drive to railway station in mdu.. :bash:
one thing the auto person said is people mdu especially shop owners are fearing Alagiri.. i havent seen such a scene in life..

is their any word in english beyond shame..

when TN will get rid of one family ruling govt...???:bash:

when people stop supporting it.

^^ +1.

It is (we) the people who can put an end to any such arrogant family ruling. But, (we) people are looking for some petty and momentary freebies from such rulers.

^^ soooooo called powerful politician (?) under performing in national level....:nuts::nuts:

Is it not Shame to MK and TN??

Why are you personally pulling Gilli on this ? Please put the message and post your comments ...

btw .. Politicians and their Politics will never change in our country ...

two weeks back went to madurai on the way to paramakudi.. bcause of Alagiri's birthday their were around atleast 100 flux per road may be more than that..

the scene is almost the same when i was in Salem last week, that had some regional Political Leader's hoarding across the city roads ... :bash:

ya madurai is known for politician hoardings esp the MKA's but salem has joined the list recently where the entire city has been spoiled by these hoardings rite from jaya to veerapandi.

It may not be far for cbe to be in list,ahead of WTC. Already a big flex is there near hopes bridge welcoming the tamil conference,though hoardings are banned in the city

replacing a veshti with a handbag

^^ Yes, you can see the local politician and his son's faces everywhere in Salem. It gives a completely bad look to the city.

I don't know what pleasure they gain by showcasing their faces all over the city. It just gives a very bad impression. But is this something that is really improving their vote-bank by any means?

New Delhi, Feb. 13: Lack of performance would be a major criteria for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to axe a section of ministers in his Cabinet.
Though no date has yet been fixed for a long overdue Cabinet reshuffle, a necessity is being felt to hasten the exercise. Some ministers are burdened with nearly four to five ministries and this is affecting the performance of the government.

I think its just a media propaganda, similar to the one against TR Balu who was blamed for Montek Singh Ahluwalia wrong policy.

Could this be the reason?
Alagiri opposes Pranab’s fertiliser subsidy proposal
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Alagiri-opposes-Pranabs-fertiliser-subsidy-proposal/articleshow/5574443.cms

the scene is almost the same when i was in Salem last week, that had some regional Political Leader's hoarding across the city roads ... :bash:

Wait for some time, the face in the banner is going to get replaced soon in DCM's era!:lol:

Why are you personally pulling Gilli on this ? Please put the message and post your comments ...

btw .. Politicians and their Politics will never change in our country ...

Dear Vijay, I didnot drag anybody... Just registered my feelings... thats it...

Cool................

That was nothing serious...just for fun as mentioned in my comments. Take it easy buddy. :)

When MKA took power at the Center, there was a huge expectation that he is going to use that to do great things for Mdu but this news item has come up a stunner and that is why I quoted it in that context.

May be whatever was mentioned in that news item may not come true but its a good chaibar topic. :lol:

What a retrograde step? They are happy to dupe the public with its lower standards and no up gradation to 21st century.


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TN to oppose national panel for higher edu

TIMES NEWS NETWORK


Chennai: The Tamil Nadu government has made it clear that it will oppose tooth and nail the proposed National Commission for Higher Education and Research (NCHER), contending that it will infringe upon the rights of the state government. A committee, constituted by the Central government to elicit state governments’ views on the NCHER draft bill, will hold discussion with academicians in the state on Wednesday.
Against this backdrop, higher education minister K Ponmudi, speaking to mediapersons at the secretariat on Tuesday after holding a consultation with all vice-chancellors in the state, said, “The DMK has been demanding that education be shifted from the concurrent list to the state list. Ever since education was included in the concurrent list, it has commercialised, standards have deteriorated and irregularities have been reported.” The move to disband regulatory bodies like All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), University Grants Commission (UGC) and National Council for Teachers’ Education (NCTE) and constitute an overarching body like NCHER will take more powers away from states, he said.
The draft bill says even appointment of vice-chancellors will be decided by a collegium and the eligible candidates will be drawn from a pool of national talent. In a country where every state follows a different pattern of education, where some states follow a twolanguage formula and some others three language formula, it is not advisable to introduce a uniform education system, Ponmudi said and added that Karnataka and Kerala have already opposed it.
He suggested that NCHER could be formed as a regulatory body which would just lay down broader guidelines for educational institutions and not look into their day-to-day functioning. Alternatively, the state higher education and employment council should be given more powers, he noted. “We expect the Union minister to hold discussions with all state education ministers before taking any decision on NCHER,” said Ponmudi.
The Central government has brought out the draft NCHER bill based on the recommendations of the Yash Pal committee. Tamil Nadu higher education secretary K Ganesan was a member of the committee.

Boards like CBSE are way ahead to TN, even some state boards are better than TN. In my view other than language and history, all subjects should follow a national curriculum.

Boards like CBSE are way ahead to TN, even some state boards are better than TN. In my view other than language and history, all subjects should follow a national curriculum.

Yup, Agreed!

Karunanidhi call on State autonomy

CHENNAI: Chief Minister and DMK president M. Karunanidhi on Wednesday called upon party members to carry forward the cause of State autonomy. In a statement, he reiterated that the cause did not advocate or support secessionism but underlined the idea that only when States were strong, the Centre too could be strong. Explanations and books of leaders, including C.N. Annadurai, M.P. Sivagnanam and Murasoli Maran, provided clarity to the subject. He recalled that after the death of Annadurai (in 1969), he had chaired a conference on State autonomy in which S.M. Krishna, now External Affairs Minister, had participated. — Special Correspondent

Poor civic sense prevails amongst our citizens :bash:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Take-a-minute-to-let-an-ambulance-pass/articleshow/5582233.cms

CHENNAI: Approximately 50 persons in the city are unable to make it to hospitals on time every day because of traffic blocks encountered by ambulances, said V Veerappan, project chairman, Rotary Club of Madras Perungudi.

Pointing out that it could prove life-threatening if patients reached the hospital beyond the ‘golden hour’, he said the club had decided to expand its ‘Give Way to Ambulance’ campaign, launched two years ago, to inculcate a sense of responsibility among road-users. It plans to hold a walkathon of school and college students and representatives of the corporate sector on February 20 on the Marina Beach.

Addressing reporters on Tuesday, Veerappan said, “There are 300 ambulances in the city which make at least three trips a day. Of the 900 patients transported this way, about 400 require urgent medical attention. Due to delays on the road, 50 of them are unable to make it to the hospital on time. If extended to a year, this works out to approximately 18,000 people not making it to hospitals on time in the city alone. Though these statistics provide only an approximate picture, they give an idea of the scale of the problem.”

According to Dr Veerappan, even educated people were unaware of how to act on hearing an ambulance siren. “We are not even asking them to wait till they see the vehicle. We are merely saying that once you hear the siren, please move to your left and wait for a minute or two until the ambulance passes by.

In order to push this initiative forward, we will hold a walkathon of school and college students and representatives of the corporate sector on February 20 from Labour Statue to the Gandhi Statue on the Marina Beach. They will then be briefed on the importance of making way for an ambulance after the session,” he said. The campaign was successful when tried among students two years ago as children would tell their parents to pull up on the side of the road on hearing an ambulance siren, he added.

Along with this, the club also planned to place disposable table mats for restaurants and stickers on ambulances with the message printed on them so that more people would read them, Veerappan added.
Additional Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Shakeel Akhter said the loss of life in India due to road accidents in terms of monetary value was Rs 70,000 crore a year and Rs 10,000 crore a year in terms of property. Pointing out that he had a meeting with ambulance drivers two months ago, he said ambulance drivers should be responsible and not misuse the siren if there were no patients on board.

Votebank politics spoiling education in TN

The Tamil Nadu government is up in arms against HRD Minister Kapil Sibal's proposal for a common entrance examination. This is because the state has abolished the entrance examination system and it doesn't want that to haunt students yet again.

The state says it abolished these entrance exams two years ago to save students from stress and to give rural students a fair chance, as they can't afford tuitions to prepare for entrance tests.
It's vote bank politics that often determines government policies in Tamil Nadu. With Assembly polls just a year away, the ruling DMK doesn't want to take any chances.

And for Tamil Nadu, making admissions easy to professional colleges is a political brownie point.
http://www.ndtv.com/news/india/tamil_nadu_says_no_to_sibal_plan.php

First,

Why he wants Common entrance exam? :bash::bash:

Why the central gvt wants to poke the nose in each and every thing.

How the CEE is related to getting ride of Votebank politics? Congress is doing it in National level for vote bank politics!

Already infrastructure is ruined by the central gvt as we stand among third world countries now. Pls let them not make the education as disaster! Though TN has lot of un-occupied engg colleges, the standard of education is much much better than other states in the country. Let them not spoil it.


Votebank politics spoiling education in TN

The Tamil Nadu government is up in arms against HRD Minister Kapil Sibal's proposal for a common entrance examination. This is because the state has abolished the entrance examination system and it doesn't want that to haunt students yet again.

The state says it abolished these entrance exams two years ago to save students from stress and to give rural students a fair chance, as they can't afford tuitions to prepare for entrance tests.
It's vote bank politics that often determines government policies in Tamil Nadu. With Assembly polls just a year away, the ruling DMK doesn't want to take any chances.

And for Tamil Nadu, making admissions easy to professional colleges is a political brownie point.
http://www.ndtv.com/news/india/tamil_nadu_says_no_to_sibal_plan.php

First,

Why he wants Common entrance exam? :bash::bash:

Why the central gvt wants to poke the nose in each and every thing.



IMHO, Sibal is one of the better HRD ministers in this country for a long time. He is trying to set the same standard for education across the country.

How the CEE is related to getting ride of Votebank politics? Congress is doing it in National level for vote bank politics!

Already infrastructure is ruined by the central gvt as we stand among third world countries now. Pls let them not make the education as disaster! Though TN has lot of un-occupied engg colleges, the standard of education is much much better than other states in the country. Let them not spoil it.

CEE was canceled bowing to pressure from parties like PMK, saying that it benefited the urban students more than the rural ones, because urban students get to go to coaching classes. Reversing the decision would affect the same vote bank.

While TN education is better than some of the North Indian states, its no way even comparable to CBSE standards. I know from personal interaction with CBSE kids during my school days, their Xth students knew things that were on our XIIth syllabus

IMHO, Sibal is one of the better HRD ministers in this country for a long time. He is trying to set the same standard for education across the country.



Common entrance exam will not be the solution for that. Let them give the guidelines for states on education instead of pulling the state's policy on education.

Today common entrance and tomorrow common language policy? Present system is way better.

Common entrance exam will not be the solution for that. Let them give the guidelines for states on education instead of pulling the state's policy on education.

Today common entrance and tomorrow common language policy? Present system is way better.

Isn’t the standard of science and maths way higher in cbse and icse than the state boards?
Even the DMK ministers sons/daughters would be sending their wards to these and international schools and keeping others in poor standard ones.

Isn’t the standard of science and maths way higher in cbse and icse than the state boards?
Even the DMK ministers sons/daughters would be sending their wards to these and international schools and keeping others in poor standard ones.

Agreed, but advice the states to improve their syllabus for better standard than calling for common entrance exam. But a student entering into college have no difference i.e let him have state or central or matric (till 10th) or tamil medium board background, the one who have real stuff shines there. So CBSE or Stateboard or Tamil board have nothing to do there!

Agreed, but advice the states to improve their syllabus for better standard than calling for common entrance exam. But a student entering into college have no difference i.e let him have state or central or matric (till 10th) or tamil medium board background, the one who have real stuff shines there. So CBSE or Stateboard or Tamil board have nothing to do there!

Doesn’t having a single entrance exam reduce the burden on the student dramatically and opens a wide option of colleges in front of him rathe than few good ones followed by vast majority of mediocre ones owned by politicos?

Agreed, but advice the states to improve their syllabus for better standard than calling for common entrance exam. But a student entering into college have no difference i.e let him have state or central or matric (till 10th) or tamil medium board background, the one who have real stuff shines there. So CBSE or Stateboard or Tamil board have nothing to do there!

^^
IMHO, I Don't like pressuring the students at the earlier age/childhood and causing them to depression. I would prefer to go with a substandard education till 8th with morals and build self confidence and slowly increase it to better standard at/after +2 for science and maths.

I agree, One might come up with the case saying studying in CBSE will have better chance of getting better employment. But as far as I know I can easily give counter examples, in deed, I am an example, until my 10 I studied in Tamil medium (obviously state board) only.

I didn't get admission in IITs, (not even I got admission in engineering, did my B.Sc & then M.C.A) but now I did go to campus interviews to couple of IITs and rejected candidates for the company I am working. I didn't mean they are bad and I'm better. (I would say they didn't do well for my questions on that day). More over, In our company (Talking only about india distributed office), we found more than 5% of students are studied in their mother tongue like tamil, kannada, telugu etc. And there are good percent of people from TN esp from CEG.

The reason behind this is the self confidence that I got form the education than the technical details I learnt during my schools. (I used to fail in my school intermediate tests like half early, mid term etc) The moment i got the confidence every thing changed. Eventhough I like one to one mentoring, which i didn't get during my school. I learnt technical subjects by going to libraries and solving problems.

There were quite a few experiments done in this regard of boosting the confidence and giving a tough paper to solve and frighting and easier paper to solve. students solved the tough papers easily than that of the easier paper.

Recently Bangalore university had said that they will not print students failed on the mark-sheet, but rather would ask the students to reappear for the exam. if this is the case, then why do we say that we need to improve the standard of our education?

Another way, I wanted to compare our education systems is with GRE questions, EVEN AFTER YOUR GRADUATION, THE QUESTIONS ARE ONLY FROM 10 STANDARD, why is this? If one revisit ALGEBRA, TRIGONOMETRY at 20 years old he/she would get a better perceptive.

And finally, if we remove the environment peer pressure from them I would certainly say, students studying in TNB or CBSE or METRIC will have same IQ. Peer pressure makes lot difference than board & board exams.

Just my thought.

Doesn’t having a single entrance exam reduce the burden on the student dramatically and opens a wide option of colleges in front of him rathe than few good ones followed by vast majority of mediocre ones owned by politicos?

That will fit for state wise and not the mass as one whole country. I don't see any problem for the students in TN getting into engineering colleges, The discussion will again lead to "build more and quality engineering colleges in respective states" then there will be no need for such common entrance exam.

TNEA is a single window system, those who have enough marks get seats into college and only management seats goes to the marketing team of college owned by politicos or other industrialist.

And TNPCEE use to conduct the entrance exam in two languages english and tamil, which was much useful for Tamil medium students. Any common entrance exam will grab the opportunity of rural and Tamil medium students career. Even the TNPCEE exam were more difficult one for rural and tamil medium students, that was one of the reason entrance exam within the state was pulled off. But I am not supporting that completely. We need a entrance exam state wise.

And those who aspire for getting into REC, IIT's or other Central gvt colleges in other states (Trichy REC use to have quota for TNPCEE exams), let them continue with writing both the exams! Again the % of students appearing from TN to Common entrance exam will be far less than 5%! Just for these 5% of students why TN should join the common entrance test?

TN gvt is on right decision about not joining the common entrance exam.

Best thing is " Do not conduct any entrance exam"

+2 exams are enough, let it be any state board or CBSE.

Normalise the marks to make it fair comparison. Then make admission for all colleges based on all india ranks chalked out from that normalisation.

No point in punishing and harassing the students to take multiple entrance exams (IIT,AIEEE,VIT,state entrance exams etc etc) apart from +2 exam

Agreed to Arul & Eswaran..

TN Single Window system is fine and don't disturb it...

Try to implement same (either by CG or State )for Deemed and Minority Institution too........

I remember the hard time I had in 2004 when I had to take the TNPCEE (TN Professional Courses Entrance Exam) to get my admission to Anna University.. It was a very difficult test for sure..

But at the same time I do believe it did help me with my admissions..

I scored 95% in my 12th boards, which seems excellent on the face of it, but unfortunately I was just one among thousands and thousands of students in the state who got similar marks..

I would say this is simply because the board exams are so predictable, with the same questions appearing in papers every year and therefore everybody being prepared for these same "important" questions..

On the other hand the TNPCEE definitely shook things up a bit and (I don't mean to sound arrogant here) it differentiated, to an extent, the truly intelligent students from those who could just quote their text books verbatim and therefore ace the 12th std. exams..

I think that entrance tests after 12th std. board exams are undesirable too..

But I think such additional tests are required at least until the entire system moves towards a point where thinking is given a little more of a premium as compared to remembering..

JMT.. :)

I would prefer CET as students are going to compete at a national level rather than regional level. but the seats should be allocated with % of regional/central divide. I guess it is something like CAT.

^^

Students can also compete in International level.

And those who aspire for getting into REC, IIT's or other Central gvt colleges in other states (Trichy REC use to have quota for TNPCEE exams), let them continue with writing both the exams! Again the % of students appearing from TN to Common entrance exam will be far less than 5%! Just for these 5% of students why TN should join the common entrance test?

TN gvt is on right decision about not joining the common entrance exam.

The problem is our students have to compete with students from other states for jobs. If we shield them from all the pressures, they would have a much tougher time competing with students who are used to pressure. TN is lowering the bar, to make it easy for people from rural areas, but in doing so its also making it tougher for all our students to compete nationally. As they say socialism doesn't make everybody equally rich, it makes everybody equally poor.

States like Bihar are growing at a rapid pace, in about a decade they would have good enough infrastructure, they would also be able to provide land and labour at a much cheaper rate than TN. The only edge TN has is education, we need to sustain and improve that edge. Otherwise our anility to attract investment would also go down.

I don't mean to sound arrogant here.

Accepted. Neither I don't mean to sound arrogant.
But, with your reference, I just wanted to insist (opting the word "insist") that

if one don't get into IITs/AU/BITS/NIT/other colleges doesn't mean that his/her life is ended.

if one get into IITs/AU/BITS/NIT/other colleges and later he/she joins big shot companies like HP/IBM/CISCO/ORACLE/MICROSOFT/YAHOO/GOOGLE etc that doesn't mean that his/her life is happy (like nothing to be worried after words).

IMHO, we, in our educational system, fails to give the above perceptions correctly. Life is different from profession, though profession helps to lead ones personal life.

(others please read ferrari_fans full response before replaying)

JMT.. :)

i support statewise entrance exams as the TN general exam is not mature enough to filter out good students. there is definitely no change in the number of rural students entering the colleges before and after scrapping it. why did not the govt scrap the CET for others like law colleges?

^^ I support a common entrance exam at a state level. The General exams are way too predictable with repeated questions. Even if the question paper turns out to be little trikky, parents and media make it a big deal and we have also seen bonus marks announced, or press releases saying that those questions will be liberally corrected.
Students, Parents and media just do not want anything asked other than those 'important questions'.

The result of this attitude does not make the general exams qualified enough to be a platform to differentiate a brighter student from the crowd.

^^

Students can also compete in International level.
The world is going to get more competitive and not preparing the students to face the tough competition would be escaping or hiding from reality.
If you look at IIT , coaching classes have sprung up all over AP, and students from AP are the highest in number to get into these prestigious institutions.

^^ well said

Weekend Assignment ((:-

Techies!!!

Please write a program in any language to count total number of words, and number of words in each English alphabet. sort and list them alaphabetically along with percentage of recurrance.

Save an Opinion file from 'The Hindu'(a large one to minimise sampling error)in text format. Run your Executable on this file and list the output.

Pl post your results here. We may arrive at an interesting observation.And can discuss for a few days.

Cheers....

I think the standard of education in TN is good but not great.
We have to think how TN students compete against other state in IIT, AIMS, IAS exams, I see AP and some northern states way ahead of us (could be coaching centers too ) but in general it is important to keep it high, either through syllabus or entrance exams,
if entrance exams gives unfair advantage then keep the syllabus and standard of examination high

someday PMK folks will say abolish private schools because it gives unfair advantage to rich kids rather than focusing on improving govt schools.

Currently as obama says we are good in maths and science, is all because of fire in our belly , one generation down the line it might not be there, as our kids will have everything they need. so inorder to promote better education, we need to raise the standard.

Weekend Assignment ((:-

Techies!!!

Please write a program in any language to count total number of words, and number of words in each English alphabet. sort and list them alaphabetically along with percentage of recurrance.

Save an Opinion file from 'The Hindu'(a large one to minimise sampling error)in text format. Run your Executable on this file and list the output.

Pl post your results here. We may arrive at an interesting observation.And can discuss for a few days.

Cheers....

Haha we're not doing your homework for you!!

:lol:

The problem is our students have to compete with students from other states for jobs. If we shield them from all the pressures, they would have a much tougher time competing with students who are used to pressure. TN is lowering the bar, to make it easy for people from rural areas, but in doing so its also making it tougher for all our students to compete nationally. As they say socialism doesn't make everybody equally rich, it makes everybody equally poor.

+1

oops sorry...

Weekend Assignment ((:-

Techies!!!

Please write a program in any language


is it ok to write in Tamil :P

to count total number of words, and number of words in each English alphabet.

What do you mean by above


sort and list them alaphabetically along with percentage of recurrance.


Save an Opinion file from 'The Hindu'(a large one to minimise sampling error)in text format. Run your Executable on this file and list the output.

Pl post your results here. We may arrive at an interesting observation.And can discuss for a few days.

Cheers....

is it ok to write in Tamil :P

:lol: I presume you were joking, right? He meant any programming language.. :)

I think the standard of education in TN is good but not great.
We have to think how TN students compete against other state in IIT, AIMS, IAS exams, I see AP and some northern states way ahead of us (could be coaching centers too ) but in general it is important to keep it high, either through syllabus or entrance exams,
if entrance exams gives unfair advantage then keep the syllabus and standard of examination high

someday PMK folks will say abolish private schools because it gives unfair advantage to rich kids rather than focusing on improving govt schools.

The problem is that, whether we like it or not, there is a difference in abilities between different people..

Just for example, I have taken the CAT exam twice now, and while I find that I am able to clear 2 of their 3 sections easily, I find the maths section pretty tough.. (Again, this reflects rather poorly on our 12th std. exams where I scored 198/200 in my board exams.. :P)

In a paper where there are 30 maths questions, I somehow manage to attempt 14-15 and get 12-13 correct.. I am truly amazed when I see people who are able to attempt all 30 questions in the same time and get 25+ correct.. I lack the ability to truly compete with these people..

Now that doesn't mean I expect the IIMs to drop the difficulty of their papers - this is the only way they can get the cream of the students..

It's basically the same old capitalist vs socialist debate we had on the Chennai Discussions thread last week..

Which brings me to my actual reply to R2IChennai's post.. :)

Entrance exams give rich students an advantage since only they can afford coaching classes.. Unacceptable..

So how will it then be politically acceptable to increase difficulty of syllabus, which will clearly provide the best students with a big advantage compared to the "academically-challenged"?

There are many more students who would fare poorly in exams as compared to those who do well.. Acting against their "interests" would be political suicide as I see it..

Definitely won't happen..

Now that doesn't mean I expect the IIMs to drop the difficulty of their papers - this is the only way they can get the cream of the students..


^^
You neither sounded you would improve your mathematic abilities :P
(just kidding)

I think the standard of education in TN is good but not great.
We have to think how TN students compete against other state in IIT, AIMS, IAS exams, I see AP and some northern states way ahead of us (could be coaching centers too ) but in general it is important to keep it high, either through syllabus or entrance exams,
if entrance exams gives unfair advantage then keep the syllabus and standard of examination high



when you compare the number of cbse and icse/isc schools in tamil nadu and any northern states you will find TN way behind . and the system adopted in state boards is one of the worst . whether a person understands or not one has to blindly by-heart the concept ...

moreover as you said coaching centres is lacking in TN as compared to any states ... i sufferd to find a good coaching centre in madurai for IIT-JEE..now i am doing it in T.I.M.E .

when you compare the number of cbse and icse/isc schools in tamil nadu and any northern states you will find TN way behind . and the system adopted in state boards is one of the worst . whether a person understands or not one has to blindly by-heart the concept ...

moreover as you said coaching centres is lacking in TN as compared to any states ... i sufferd to find a good coaching centre in madurai for IIT-JEE..now i am doing it in T.I.M.E .

The correction of papers of CBSE in TN seems to be a bit lenient.
I had observed the marks obtained in TN and Delhi. this was my inference.
I could be wrong as well.

The correction of papers of CBSE in TN seems to be a bit lenient.
I had observed the marks obtained in TN and Delhi. this was my inference.
I could be wrong as well.

i am studying in a ISC syllabus school in madurai. the corrections were lineant in my 10th( icse ) . but dont the papers of cbse and icse go to northern states ? they dont correct in the same state.... tats what i have heard so far

The correction of papers of CBSE in TN seems to be a bit lenient.
I had observed the marks obtained in TN and Delhi. this was my inference.
I could be wrong as well.

Unless you add data for Delhi students are brilliant in some other aspect than TN counterparts and they were scoring lower in their CBSE. you will be very well wrong and would make it clear that TN way ahead Delhi.

FF,reading all those comments on Education, I thought IQ 0f guys here may be over 120. When I made a post on 'colour' of Tennis court at Nungambakkam, one guy replied,"It is blue,because it is blue". Great invention. He failed to read why I made that comment?The synthetic track was shown Green in one photo and blue in another. So unless thay have changed the playing area synthetic stuff, and photos were taken on two different occassions, before and after, the photos may represent diff. court. One will explain all this stuff to ordinary guys. Not you folks here.

"Haha we're not doing your homework for you!!", Again you assumed like an ordinary guy that ,I am in school. You are like my son FF.

Bless..

"Please write a program in any language" ( one will add "Programming" to oridinary guys. you are all brilliant achievers who don't need such foolhardy words.)

The above sentance has,

a-2 (words starting in 'a' 2 times)
i-1
l-1
p-2
w-1

Total number of words-7 and 'a' occurs 28.57% and so on.

Now it is very very clear for everyone. Since you have studied in Tamil medium, this exercise will bring out quite a few highlights....

This is serious stuff to probe 'something' which you will come to understand once you start thinking 'out of the box' on Tamil language. a few "whys

FF,reading all those comments on Education, I thought IQ 0f guys here may be over 120. When I made a post on 'colour' of Tennis court at Nungambakkam, one guy replied,"It is blue,because it is blue". Great invention. He failed to read why I made that comment?
He would have said it in line with "We are here because we are here". Hope you know the context of that line.


"Haha we're not doing your homework for you!!", Again you assumed like an ordinary guy that ,I am in school. You are like my son FF.

Bless..

"Please write a program in any language" ( one will add "Programming" to oridinary guys. you are all brilliant achievers who don't need such foolhardy words.)

The above sentance has,

a-2 (words starting in 'a' 2 times)
i-1
l-1
p-2
w-1

Total number of words-7 and 'a' occurs 28.57% and so on.

Now it is very very clear for everyone. Since you have studied in Tamil medium, this exercise will bring out quite a few highlights....

This is serious stuff to probe 'something' which you will come to understand once you start thinking 'out of the box' on Tamil language. a few "whys
I agree its too serious stuff to make any head or tails.

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/chennai/tn-spent-rs-1218-cr-over-cauvery-dispute-553

Feb. 18: The Cauvery river dispute meanders on without any solution in sight. But the Tamil Nadu government has already spent over Rs 1,218 crore (1979-2006) on expenses for conducting the case against Karnataka. Of this, over Rs 1,142 crore went towards just the lawyers’ fees. :bash:
According to the RTI re-ply furnished by the government to the secretary of TN PWD senior engineers association in 2007, the staff expenditure from 1990 to 2007, including travel allo-wance (TA) and dearness allowance (DA) amounts to Rs 65.51 crore. The salary component for the staff in the Cauvery technical cell till 2007 runs close to Rs 63 crore and Rs 2.23 crore is the tour TA paid for the officials in the cell. The incidental expenditure incurred towards TA and DA is Rs 37 lakh. :bash:
“The year-wise expenditure from 1979-2006 incu-rred towards legal fees paid to advocates and senior la-wyers is Rs 1,14,203 lakh (Rs 1,142 crore),” the RTI reply reads. The year-wise expenditure towards legal fees, according to the reply, runs to Rs 7 crore in 2002-03, Rs 222.50 core in 2003-04, Rs 276 crore in 2004-05, Rs 563.43 crore in 2005-06 and Rs 73 crore in 2006-07.
“We have completed three years of silence in the Cauvery issue. The estimate for modernisation of the delta in 1977 stood at Rs 1,000 crore and it now stands at Rs 5,200 crore,” S. Ranganathan, secretary, Cauve-ry Delta Farmers Welfare Association, told DC.
S. Janakarajan, co-ordinator of the Cauvery Family and professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, said the worst sufferers are the farmers of both states. “The tribunal itself looks like a mockery. As per the Inter-State Water Disputes Act of 1956, the tribunal is fully empowered and the Article 262 of the Constitution clearly bars the Supreme Court to intervene in the process of the tribunal.”

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/chennai/mp%E2%80%99s-facebook-route-flattery-984

Feb. 16: Ramanathapuram MP J.K. Ritheesh goes one step ahead of setting tall hoardings and posters: the actor-politician uses social networking sites to demonstrate his allegiance to the DMK patriarch and his kin and kith. The debutant MP moderates several groups on Facebook exclusively for chief minister M. Karunanidhi’s family viz. Union minister Alagiri, deputy chief minister Stalin, Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi and even granddaughter Kayalvizhi and grandson’s wife Kiruthiga Udhayanidhi.
One group is called “Fans of three K’s”, apparently referring to Kanimozhi, Kayalvizhi and Kiruthiga, and another group, called ,Cabinet minister M.K. Alagiri’, describes the party south zone organising secretary as the ‘brave heart of DMK’. In fact, a member of Alagiri’s family jointly moderates the group frequented by DMK cadre.
Interestingly, Mr Rith-eesh, who witnessed a quick political rise, went beyond individuals and also registered himself in half-a-dozen groups meant for promoting the movies of Cloud Nine pictures and Red Giant movies, production houses owned by Durai Dayanidhi and Udhayanidhi Stalin, respectively.
The MP goes to the extent of declaring on his Facebook profile that DMK is his religion and ‘Kalaignar’, his god, unmindful of the fact that the party follows the atheist ways of Thanthai Periyar.

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/chennai/owners-fight-losing-battle-against-land-sharks-987

Feb. 16: Middle class people in the city have been fighting bitter battles against real estate sharks and encroachers to reclaim the land that they once bought to ensure a better future for the families.
Mr Sukumar, 50, from Ambattur is one of them. He has been running from pillar to post for the last 20 years to reclaim a plot of land at Adhanoor near Guduvanchery that was allotted to him by the government of Tamil Nadu.
Approximately 89.77 acres of land was allocated to the Ashok Leyland Employees Co-operative Housing Society Union (ALECHSU) in 1990 by the state government after it took over their society land at Ennore for the North Madras Thermal Power Station.
“Even at the time of handing over the land to us, we were informed that seven acres of the property were encroached upon and that they would clear the encroachments soon,” said Mr Sukumar. “Approximately 104 members of the ALECHSU were unfortunate enough to be allotted lands in the encroached seven acres.”
Two decades have passed. Men who were in their early 20’s and 30’s at the time of purchasing the land are now nearing their retirement. Yet, they are yet to get the promised land.
“Several governments have come and gone,” said Mr Durai, who is about to retire from service in October 2010. “We have also approached a number of revenue officials in Kancheepuram district in vain. Our active lives are almost over but at least after retirement, we would like to settle down in our plots away from the bustle of the city.”
In response to an RTI petition, Kancheepuram revenue officials have detailed the encroachments plot-wise.
“Yet, we have not been able to get our lands,” said another ALECHSU member.
Colonel Prem Chandran, a retired army officer from Palavakkam, is no stranger to wars. But his fight with the land mafia has been tougher than all battles he fought.
His effort has been to reclaim three plots of patta land in S.NOs 363, 364 at Sunnambu Kolathur near Pallikaranai that belongs to his close relative and associates.
A construction company has already constructed a 17-apartment flat on the property and claimed ownership.
“It is a big mafia,” said the ex-army man. “A local gangster prepared duplicate documents and sold it off to a builder. Over the last three years, the property has changed several hands.”
The ease with which realtors prepare fake land ownership documents seems to be the biggest issue for most people caught in a tussle for land.
“The revenue department is so corrupt that anybody can manufacture a document that looks almost original,” said Mr Purushottaman of Tiruvanmiyur who owns 1.17 acres of land near his home. “At least a dozen patta documents have been made on this particular piece of land. Yet, nobody seems to question the revenue department’s role in the foul play.”
Like most other victims of the land mafia, these citizens have tried to avail all tools at their disposal. Yet, nothing has changed on the ground.

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/chennai/ration-rice-pest-ridden-stinks-admits-tn-dept-994

Feb. 16: The state civil supplies corporation has inadvertently admitted that it distributes stinking, encrusted rice full of live pests.
In an official communication, the corporation has admitted that if the double boiled rice was found with encrustation, long storage stink and insects in it, it would be certainly PDS rice.
The confession came in the form of a letter recently written by the corporation’s zonal manager of Tuticorin to the district revenue officer. The letter was written on January 26 to detail the result of a study on quality of the sample of rice sent to them. The corporation was supposed to verify if the sample was from PDS rice or not.
After ‘carefully’ studying the rice, they decided that it was certainly from their own PDS. The letter numbers four reason to justify their findings. First reason was that the sample was double boiled one.
The second reason officials cited to ratify their finding was that the sample had bad smell — the long storage smell — emanating from it. There was also encrustation in rice, which ‘confirmed’ it was certainly PDS ‘quality’. And to top it all, there were live pests in the sample, which made sure that the it was certainly from the PDS stock.
Interestingly, armed with this letter, the customs and district officials had executed a major seizure from a godown there. But it later turned out to be rice stocked for export to Maldives.

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/chennai/tn-farmers-get-tips-norway-758

Feb. 15: Rice cultivated in Tamil Nadu will soon have a Norwegian flavour. The No-rwegian Institute for Agric-ultural and Environmental Research has selected three villages each in Tiruchy and Thanjavur districts of Tamil Nadu to help farmers increase their productivity, according to Lars Peder Brekk, minister for agriculture and food, Norway.
“Indian farmers are as competitive and efficient as their counterparts in rest of the world. What we are doing is to share the knowledge and expertise developed by our scientists with these farmers,” Mr Brekk told Deccan Chronicle on the sidelines of the international conference on biodiversity being organised by the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation here on Monday.
“We would like to share our expertise in combating climate change and increase the food production with institutions like MSSRF and other Indian universities. While increasing the food productivity, we can also ensure the sustainability of the fragile biodiversity,” said Mr Brekk, who was instrumental in setting up the Svalbard Global Seed Vault which has a unique collection of more than a million seeds from across the world.
Hyderabad-born Dr Udaya Sekhar Nagothy of the NIAER who is accompanying the minister said that nearly 300 villages from the districts of Trichy and Thanjavur were in touch with the Norwegian scientists for the last two years. ”That was the first phase of this programme. Our association is being facilitated by the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University and over the next two years we will help them evolve out as model farmers,” said Dr Nagothu. He disclosed that the Norwegian scientists envisaged these farmers to be the model farmers for the rest of the state.

http://www.chennaionline.com/City360/LifeStyle/20094313044318/Where-Does-Chennai-Stand.col

Chennai mothers are unhappy with the cleanliness of surroundings in the survey conducted amongst mothers across 17 State Capitals of India. Chennai, while it seems to be well above other cities, loses out to its immediate neighbours, Bangalore and Thiruvanantapuram in the Child Health Quotient.

Lifebuoy Child Health Quotient, a survey conducted amongst mothers of 17 state capitals of India, to gauge the perception that mothers have with regards to the health of their children. Chennai’s mothers are extremely satisfied with the quality of education available in their city, putting the city score to 99 on this parameter. Again when it comes to nutritious food, Chennai mom’s are happy about the quality of nutrition that their kids are having. However they are not very happy with the weight gain of their child although they seem satisfied with the growth of their children.

The survey was carried out amongst 17 state capitals with mothers of children in the age group of 4-12 years. The objective of the survey was to bring forth the perception and satisfaction of mothers with respect to the physical, mental and social aspects of their child’s health and factors that influence these.

The report paints a mixed picture of children’s overall health across 17 state capitals. Lucknow and Kolkata have emerged clear winners, surpassing the others. The mothers are most satisfied with the health of their child in these cities with CHI of 109, which is way above the national average of 100. Following closely are Bangalore with CHI of 108 & Chandigarh with CHI 107. 4 of the high scoring cities are amongst the top 6 metros- Kolkata, Bangalore, Delhi and Chennai. Bhopal and Mumbai rank at the bottom of the Child Health Quotient.

> North and South zones score high on Mother’s satisfaction
> Southern state mothers, excepting Hyderabad, happy with the health of their children
> Thiruvanantapuram ranks 5th, Chennai ranks 7th & Hyderabad ranks 12th in the Lifebuoy Child Health Quotient
> Bangalore mothers are 99% satisfied with extracurricular activities and the well being of their children as against Chennai’s mom’s at 93% and 91%
> However, Bangalore at 93% loses out to Chennai at 94% when it comes to satisfaction with growth of children

I have been involved in Education and Training for students (more from infra side) for decades. I have been having an inside view and so am quite perturbed.

IIT and CAT examns have been robbed of the charm of late by these so called Training Institutes. Students can not be blamed since they have to qualify somehow. We used to enjoy the competitive examns during our time in spite of lack of coaching - purely on the heady stimulation of cracking unknown problems purely based on our knowledge..

It has become so mechanical now to solve the problems and crack the MCQs. My son has been going for IIT coaching for the past 2 years and has 2 more years to go. The current method of coaching is to solve max no of problems and so you will be familiar with the pattern. (Earlier it used to be understanding the basic concepts and you apply these to solve the problems at the examn hall).

Kota type training has really spoiled the IIT entrance examn. AP has gone into IIT Training in such a big way that you have coaching centres for entrance tests to get into a premium coaching centre. The classes start at 3am / 4 am in the morning. Parents resign / shift / relocate themselves to get their wards into these institutes.

I hope the IIT Panel will implement the Experts Committee's recommendations of changing the IIT entrance examn pattern. It should test the students ability to apply concepts rather on the forced familiarity.

^^

kannan sir,
its not alone for AP , but for any state . even coaching centres in TN have such kinda system of having entrance tests. i am studying in a institute on that basis only. and i think the most number of students entering IIT's from a single city is kota .

IIT cant do anything. due to the increase in coaching centres for IIT-JEE, they have cancelled the screening test conducted before . it is a luck for the upcoming generations. including me.....

http://business.in.com/article/hindsight/tamil-nadu-rediscovers-hindi/10612/1

Shiv Sena supremo Balasaheb Thackeray answers criticism against his party’s often violent agitations in Mumbai by citing the long history of anti-Hindi agitations in Tamil Nadu. He points to the state’s official policy that has led to insignificant use of Hindi in Tamil Nadu. Thackeray’s sense of history is impeccable because Tamil Nadu established the supremacy of Tamil through blood, in much greater intensity than the Sainiks do on the streets of Mumbai.

But Thackeray may have missed a finer point. Life has come full circle for Tamils. Today, Hindi is the most popular third language for the younger generation to learn across the state. “Everybody who once opposed Hindi is praising it now and sending their children to learn the language,” says C.N.V. Annamalai, general secretary of the Chennai-based Dakshina Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha.

Bollywood news is devoured, migrant labourers from Bihar have begun coming in, and politicians are learning Hindi to be able to make an impact in Delhi.
Tamils began protesting against Hindi as early as 1938. The Congress Party, which had come to power in the then Madras Presidency under C. Rajagopalachari, had made Hindi compulsory in schools. Tamils saw this as a cultural invasion that could render their mother tongue a secondary language on their own territory. There was a burst of protests, forcing the government to withdraw its order. Over the next decade, the Congress would try to impose Hindi several times, each time facing a bigger groundswell of protests.

The campaign against compulsory Hindi quickly became a political issue. The protests were led by E.V. Ramaswamy Naicker (known as Periyar) who had ironically given out his house just 16 years earlier to start a Hindi teacher training college. But by 1938, he had become a separatist, convinced that the South Indian “Dravidians” should form their own nation and get Purna Swaraj from “Aryan” conspirators.

The agitation was mainly sustained by students. One such man was Muthuvel Karunanidhi, who at the age of 14 showed a genius for organisation. As the protests raged year after year, the political careers of Karunanidhi and his mentor C.N. Annadurai blossomed. Soon after independence, they started a party, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, promoting Tamil nationalism. Their propaganda made the Congress Party look like a Brahmins’ party seeking to impose Hindi, Hindu supremacy and caste hierarchies on the secular Tamil national identity.

The flashpoint came on January 26, 1965. The day marked the completion of 15 years of the Constitution, which provided for removing the use of English and making Hindi the sole official language of the Union. Central government offices across the state had their boards blackened by tar. Protests brought life to a standstill. Scores of young people set themselves ablaze and died in the cause of Tamil. The police couldn’t control the agitation. The army came in but failed too.

It was then the Centre made the historic decision to continue with English as an official language. Tamil Nadu, till today, follows the two-language system with Tamil and English. If we are an English-speaking nation today, thank the Tamil protesters for it.

The Congress lost power in Tamil Nadu in 1967. Annadurai and later Karunanidhi became chief ministers. The protests entrenched the Dravidian parties so deeply that Congress hasn’t been able to come back to power till today. This is a story of great inspiration for any regional politician seeking to consolidate his constituency and drive out national parties.

Meanwhile, the Hindi Prachar Sabha is quite busy. As many as 600,000 students appear for its exams in Tamil Nadu each year, a number that is growing at 20 percent. In 1965, at the height of anti-Hindi protests, the number was less than 20,000. “The anti-Hindi agitation basically did our job. It raised curiosity among the people and brought them to us,” says Annamalai.

I hope TN doesnt turn into another bangalore bcoz of biharis pouring into the state and the bollywood news is being devoured.

Ajith had guts to speak openly and freely about chronic politicization in film industry where everyone is forced to take sides, and since the first family cannot speak now, they are speaking through the third rat sycophants.

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CHENNAI: The Tamil film industry on Saturday demanded an unconditional apology from actor Ajith Kumar for his “false statement” at a function here on February 6.

Mr.Ajith’s displeasure over film personalities being arm-twisted to attend social and political events, caused mental agony to the film world. Hence he should apologise, a meeting of film industry associations decided.

On behalf of FEFSI it was decided to strongly condemn actor Rajinikanth’s remarks in support of Mr.Ajith.
http://www.hindu.com/2010/02/21/stories/2010022153580400.htm

http://www.dailythanthi.com/thanthiepaper/showxml.aspx?id=12212428&code=1777

Deputy CM, Mr. M K Stalin requests party members not to put any digital banners or flux boards for his birthday on March 1.

I am not sure if that will be followed by the Kazhaga Udan Pirapugal.

http://www.dailythanthi.com/thanthiepaper/showxml.aspx?id=12212428&code=1777

Deputy CM, Mr. M K Stalin requests party members not to put any digital banners or flux boards for his birthday on March 1.

I am not sure if that will be followed by the Kazhaga Udan Pirapugal.


I really doubt! Both the Dravidian parties are the fore runners in displaying the digital boards. TN cities had very beautiful digital bill boards which were glittering in nights, after the ban of those banners, the structures got occupied by the parties. Here is the new follower in Salem and many of these banners were lit by light in night and even the median digital banners were not left. :bash:

http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/7412/dsc06215.jpg (http://img202.imageshack.us/i/dsc06215.jpg/)

Murders due to illicit affairs in the state on the raise

Everyday we can see at least one news of this kind in Tamil dailies!

http://tm.dinakaran.com/pdf/2010/02/21/20100221b_006105012.jpg

^^ shows how insensitive and insecure some journalists can be. What is so 'newsy' about an extra-marital affair ? The only reason I can see is it makes 'juicy' reading.

This is what happens when when some new fresh graduate with his moral high pen starts writing about cultural policing.

There are better ways to address issues of polygamy and I dont think the average Tamil daily journalists are the best source to discuss such issues.

They should punish both of them as both male and female involved are accused ,also the female involved should be punished ,only if she give space these kinda mistakes happen(they too want company as this husband is out of city) and the pithu pudicha guys are taking advantage but am sure if only these women's mistake as they are kids to be brainwashed :lol:

They should punish both of them as both male and female involved are accused ,also the female involved should be punished ,only if she give space these kinda mistakes happen(they too want company as this husband is out of city) and the pithu pudicha guys are taking advantage but am sure if only these women's mistake as they are kids to be brainwashed :lol:

Are you joking or advocating a taliban style policies?

They should punish both of them as both male and female involved are accused ,also the female involved should be punished ,only if she give space these kinda mistakes happen(they too want company as this husband is out of city) and the pithu pudicha guys are taking advantage but am sure if only these women's mistake as they are kids to be brainwashed :lol:

oh, I should be very scared of you then.. :uh:

Child marriage continues to be rampant in India with nearly one-fifth of Indian women being married off before turning 15 and around 50 per cent before reaching the legal marriageable age, a study has found.

The study, prepared by the Population Council of India and released by Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad here on Saturday, said rural women were four times more likely than urban young women to be married off before 15 years of age.

One-fifth of the young women surveyed were married off before the age of 15, half before they turned 18 and two-thirds before the age of 20, the survey conducted in the States of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, found.

The study was conducted among young urban and rural populations in the six States between 2006 and 2008, and surveyed over 58,000 youth in the age group of 15-29 years.

While women from Tamil Nadu were least likely to be married off before 18, those from Bihar were most likely to be married off before reaching the legal marriageable age.

“Not only did marriage occur at young age but it was also often arranged without the participation of young people themselves, particularly young women,” the study said.

The study found that early marriage is followed by early pregnancy and almost 47 per cent of young women had their first pregnancy before they turned 18.

After the marriage came the pressure to prove fertility as soon as possible.

“Among married men and women who had cohabited for 12 months or more and for whom age at first pregnancy was known, two-thirds reported that the first pregnancy occurred within a year of marriage,” the study said.

It also found that one quarter of married young women reported some form of physical violence within marriage.

Mr. Azad said adolescent girls have unique healthcare needs and many of these become mothers before they are physically and mentally ready for this role.

“We need to set up exclusive forums for adolescent girls in villages to ensure that their multi-dimensional development needs are addressed,” he said after releasing the report.

Employability of youth

The study conducted under the aegis of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare also found that youth in India were not educated enough for employment as per the market demand, and not adequately equipped with vocational skills.

The study titled ‘Youth in India: Situation and Needs’ found that around 44-52 per cent of men and 36-48 per cent of women in Maharashtra and the southern states of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu had completed 10 or more years of education, compared to 30-38 per cent of men and 13-18 per cent of women from the other States.

It said that pre-marital sex was not unknown in both urban and rural areas, with 15 per cent of men and four per cent of women reporting having engaged in sex before marriage and rural young men at 17 per cent were more likely than their urban counterparts to have experienced pre-marital sex.

The study also found that detailed awareness of contraceptive methods was limited, particularly among sexually active young women.:bash:

Lot to improve.

http://beta.thehindu.com/news/national/article110333.ece?homepage=true

They should punish both of them as both male and female involved are accused ,also the female involved should be punished ,only if she give space these kinda mistakes happen(they too want company as this husband is out of city) and the pithu pudicha guys are taking advantage but am sure if only these women's mistake as they are kids to be brainwashed :lol:

Where were you?

Long time no post...:ohno:

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/chennai/largest-number-road-mishaps-tn-622

Feb. 22: Tamil Nadu has got the dubious distinction of having recorded the largest number of road accidents among states in 2008.
As per official figures from the National Crime Records Bureau, the state saw 60,409 road accidents in 2008 in which 12,784 people died. Maharashtra stood second with 49,679 accidents but it recorded 12,957 deaths. Though Andhra Pradesh reported only 42,106 accidents, it topped the death tally with 14,158 victims.
In TN, the maximum number of accidents (10,261) happened between 3 pm and 6 pm while in Chennai, the maximum number (1,032) of the total 6,133 accidents took place between 6 pm and 9 pm. In Chennai, 629 people were killed in road mishaps in 2008.
The NCRB statistics also revealed that of the vehicles involved in accidents in the state, 23.2 per cent were bicycles and 20.1 percent were cars. Across the nation, 1,18,239 people were killed in 4,15,855 accidents in 2008. Out of the accident victims, 8.7 per cent were pedestrians.
There were also 2,134 rail-road accidents in the country in which 2,222 people were killed. Further, 3,42,309 people were killed in floods, avalanches, landslides, floods and cyclone along with fires, explosions, collapse of structures and air crashes.
Bomb explosions alone killed 490 people in the country in 2008 while 976 people drowned in boat capsize. Spurious liquor snuffed out 1,358 lives and 7,825 people died of snake/animal bite.

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/chennai/it%E2%80%99s-hot-ooty-february-342

Feb. 21: “Oh! It is very hot — something unusual in the month of February in the hills,” is the reaction of the locals as the mercury level started to rise the past few days. Generally, at the fag-end of February, dry and drought-like conditions make up the post-winter scenario when the hills become susceptible to forest fires.
This dry weather generally continues till the arrival of summer in mid-April. But what is unusual this February is the intense heat in the daytime, especially between 10 am and 5 pm, forcing people to look for shade and cool beverages.
Mr M. Prakasam, assistant director of horticulture at the government botanical garden, said the average maximum temperature has been around 22.7 degrees Celsius over the past one week and it is hot in the day though evenings and nights are cool.
The garden management is taking special care to save the lakhs of plants being grown for summer.
Saying that the average maximum temperature in the hills used to be around 22 degrees Celsius during summer about 40 years ago, CPR environmental education centre field officer C. Kumaravelu said the unusual hot weather now, even before the arrival of summer, shows that the hills are gradually undergoing micro-climatic changes.
The forests around the district are also losing their greenery and the chances of forest fires in the coming days are more.
He says the change in weather is due to carbon emissions from automobile exhausts and the surfacing of concrete jungles.

Love Failure, the top cause for suicides

http://dkn.dinakaran.com/pdf/2010/02/23/20100223a_012104016.jpg

inda kodumai vendam endru than naan arranged marriage panni kiten.

+1:)

So called communist leader - Varadarajan commits suicide in porur lake that is source of drinking water to Chennai.

Communists have no brains whether when alive or even when dying. He could have committed suicide in cooum or marina!!!

+1

So called communist leader - Varadarajan commits suicide in porur lake that is source of drinking water to Chennai.

Communists have no brains whether when alive or even when dying. He could have committed suicide in cooum or marina!!!

:rofl:

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/chennai/8-tn-districts-may-face-severe-drought-859

Feb. 23: Experts of the state public works department (PWD) have cautioned that at least eight districts in Tamil Nadu would face severe drought in the half of the ensuing summer.
The state ground and surface water resources data centre made this startling revelation after a two-year-long study in several districts statewide. Dharmapuri, Krishnagiri, Vellore, Tiruvannamalai, Salem and the western part of Coimbatore, Dindugul and Kancheerpuram were identified to be the worst affected districts.
As a part of their study, water samples were collected from select dug wells in these eight districts among other parts of the states, particularly during the post- and pre-monsoon seasons since early 2008.
Constant surveillance of the water level in the dug wells revealed that the groundwater level dwindled to alarming levels this year, experts involved in the study told this paper on condition of anonymity. They also attributed the imminent drought to low rainfall during the northeast and southwest monsoon and over-exploitation.
For instance, the water level of a dug well in Anandur, Krishnagiri, dipped from 9.2 metres in August 2008 to 2.75 metres in October 2009, obviously revealing that the monsoon failure in 2009 was the cause of the acute drought.
In one of the wells in Dharmapuri, the water level moved from 15.10 metres in August 2009 to 6.4 metres in December the same year.
Experts have evaluated that Dharmapuri and Krishnagiri experienced up to 20 per cent rainfall deficit, while Salem, Vellore and Coimbatore districts in the western belt of the state suffered less than 20 per cent and over 10 per cent rainfall deficit last year.
Areas that are 500 metres above mean sea level would witness quick drying and low moisture, indicating extremely sultry weather during the ensuing summer, say the experts.
Testimony to the impending drought is the early drying of shrubs and grazing lands in Dharmapuri and Krishnagiri. Shrubs in the region normally get dried up in April due to lack of soil moisture, but this year, the drying has happened in mid-February, experts reasoned, observing that the scenario is an indication of very poor underground water storage and low soil moisture.
The plight of surface water becomes immaterial, for the groundwater level is mainly dependent on surface storage, experts elaborated, adding that besides acute water shortage, people would be facing health complications owing to high temperature, quick drying and low humidity. Unfortunately, the dry air would make the situation more difficult for water managers and people as water consumption shoots up in such vegetation.

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/chennai/brain-stimulation-helps-pak-patient-854

Feb. 23: A complex deep brain stimulation procedure in a city hospital has improved the condition of a Pakistani businessman, Mr Mohammed Arif, who was in an advanced stage of Parkinson’s disease.
He was wheeled into a city hospital last month in a bad state. His limbs were stiff and frozen, he was constantly shaking, he could not walk or talk, and was experiencing hallucinations-telltale signs of an advanced stage of Parkinson’s disease.
“My father developed Parkinson’s disease five years ago,” recalled his son, Fayad Arif, who accompanied his father to Chennai’s Apollo hospital.
After medical evaluation, neurologists at Apollo hospital found him eligible to undergo the complex deep brain stimulation procedure.
“The 14 hour long surgery involves inserting electrodes deep into the brain, to stimulate certain cells to produce dopamine,” said Mr R. Ramanarayan, consultant neurosurgeon. “It requires sophisticated equipment, as the target area of the device is as small as one mm.”
Post-surgery, Mr Arif, with a battery implanted under the skin in his chest, is feeling like a new man. “He has shown improvement of over 70 per cent now,” said Dr Yograj. :cheers:

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/chennai/8-tn-districts-may-face-severe-drought-859



Free power to farmers is one of the main reason for this. Because of that the motors are left to run for a longer time and their is overuse of water. The depletion of ground water level is happening all across the country, but no politician could put an end to it, because of the farmers vote bank.

Can anybody provide the statistics of the votes % in rural area and urban places district wise, and how well developed those districts . right now term used for every thing. so we need something precise how the so called votebank is being used.

Wiki says TN has 3.4 crore people in rural areas and 2.7 in urban areas, TN is the most urbanised states in India . We have to also add in the fact that the voting percentage in rural area tends to be much higher than in urban areas.

Karun Chandhok in line for F1 debut with Campos Meta ( New F1 team based on Valencia, Spain) :banana:

The 26-year-old is understood to have secured his drive, and the deal will be announced imminently, sources say.
Chandhok, who raced in the GP2 feeder category last year.

Chandhok, who has won two GP2 races in three years in the category, will be the second Indian driver to compete in F1 after Narain Karthikeyan took part in 19 races for Jordan in 2005.

ALL the best Chandhok.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8537003.stm

Cross posting from "Indian Railways - Projects | News | Discussions" thread...

Given the regional bias in railways budgets year after year :(, it is time the state Govts are given control of the projects in their states so that they need not wait for funds from one monopolistic organization at the center. Many states like Karnataka are ready to share the cost of railway projects. This is a good step forward. :cheers:

This way states will compete with each other to improve railway infrastructure just like they compete with each other in attracting FDI investment, growing industries etc. :|

I watched Mamtha's interview to some TV channels yesterday after she presented the budget. She is unwilling to take questions and is outwardly aggressive in defending herself :ohno:. She is talking too fast that no one will be willing to ask her any more questions :lol:

I am particularly upset with the below comments from her,

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/mamata-strikes-back-says-dont-humiliate-bengal/110647-3.html?from=tn

"If you shout, I will lay the speech," Mamata warned the MPs who were shouting while she presented the budget. "If you don't listen, I will cut (the allocation being made to their constituencies)," the minister threatened. :mad::mad::mad::mad:

Banerjee admitted that her sentiments were very much attached to the people of West Bengal. Assembly elections are to be held in West Bengal next year. :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

http://www.hindu.com/2010/02/27/stories/2010022753920300.htm

VILLUPURAM: The cultivation of thornless bamboo varieties is picking up in Villupuram district. In the past two years 250 hectares have come under bamboo cultivation in the district, according to P.Dhandapani, Deputy Director of Horticulture Department.

Mr Dhandapani told The Hindu that the Deputy Director-General Kameshwar Oza of the National Bamboo Mission inspected the areas under bamboo at Vikkiravandi and Rishvandhiyam blocks on Monday.

The objective of the mission was to encourage bamboo cultivation among the farmers so as to augment their income. The farmers were given an incentive of Rs 8,000 spread over two years for taking to bamboo cultivation.

Subsidy was also given to them for putting up the fertigation system — mixing fertilizers with drip irrigation. Two years into the mission the horticulture department had brought 150 hectares under bamboo while the Forest Department and the Tamil Nadu Agricultural Department had covered another 100 ha.

Mr Dhandapani noted that four thorn-less varieties such as the bambusa vulgaris, bambusa bulcoa, bambusa nutans and bambusa tulda had proved to be ideal for cultivation.

These varieties could attain a height of 25—30 ft within two years and would attain maturity, with considerable girth, in four-five years. The farmers could obtain a yield of 50 tonnes of bamboo per hectare and because of their high-worth bio-mass they could get considerable income. These types of bamboos would fetch market prices ranging from Rs 2,000 to Rs 5,000 a tonne.

The conventional thorny varieties could yield only 10-15 tonnes per ha., and moreover their standard could not match the thornless varieties. The bulk consumers of bamboo were obviously the paper mills followed by the handicrafts sector.

Bamboos were also sought by banana growers for giving a prop to the trees to withstand gale and to avoid losses. Mr Dhandapani further said that bamboos had their utility value in household articles, though the market share of these objects was declining.

He noted that bamboos had their usage in the textile sector too. Filaments could be extracted from the bamboos for producing fabrics as was being done at the major textile centres such as Pune, Ahmedabad and Nagpur.

Since this sector would require high volumes it would take some time before the bamboo growers here capture the textile market. Under the mission it was proposed to extend bamboo cultivation to 100 ha a year, Mr Dhandapani added.

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/chennai/6-tn-bus-stands-most-unsafe-274

Chennai, Feb. 28: Koyambedu, the largest bus station in Asia with even ISO 9001:2000 quality certification also has the dubious distinction of being among the most vulnerable spots for women and children in Chennai. The state social defence department has identified six bus stands in Tamil Nadu as dangerous spots for women—Koyambedu (Chennai), Vellore, Coimbatore, Salem, Trichy and Madurai.
Officials at the ‘women helpline’ (1091) revealed that they received at least 60 –80 calls a month from harassed women from Koyambedu. “As soon as we receive a complaint, we alert the local police and arrange to rescue the victimisxed woman,” said a helpline official, requesting anonymity.
Bus stands have turned out to be the busy transit points for trafficking women and children to distant places, admit the state social defence officials. “Trafficking has emerged as a low- risk/high-return criminal activity that’s been well organised. Traffickers prefer bus stands to rail stations because there is less policing there. Though there are no clear statistics on trafficking, the available evidence indicates that a third of those trafficked in flesh trade are children,” said the official, adding ominously, “combating trafficking is a tough job.”
Stating that his department had initiated an information cell (044-2399758), he extolled the public to alert it about any trafficking taking place in their areas. “We also help out distressed parents and children by providing free counseling. All problems will be addressed within a month and the safety of the family will be ensured,” said another state officer.
Ms Chandra Thanikachalam, member of the state level committee on anti-human trafficking, said Chennai has become a transit point for big-time traffickers. “Many children are brought to Chennai from the northern states to be employed in construction sites and hotels. In many cases, agents bring the children with the consent of the parents promising to educate them in good schools,” she said. She added that several traffickers who land in Chennai early morning, segregate the children according to their physique and send them to suitable work sites. Most kids undergo physical and sexual abuse at the worksites.

HI there was intresting book of non fiction written by by John D’Agata
about a mountain.It is scenario in which United states is facing dilema to put nuclear waste to rest.I believe pace at which india is going for Nuclear power we to will face the similar kind of problem.Now we see it is clean and cheap power .after power generation it becomes so expensive.I am not able put correct word .we will face appreciation of the expense and more money will be spend to maint the waste,So its better for us ,Govt to go for the solar and other unconventional nature form of the power.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/books/review/Bock-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/chennai/scientist-can-make-fighter-jets-invisible-435

March 1: Radars of enemy countries will not be able to locate or track Indian fighter jets or missiles thanks to an innovation by a Tamil Nadu-born scientist.
Prof Ethirajan Rathakrishnan, an aerospace scientist, has developed technology that can make fighter jets and missiles invisible to even the most advanced radars.
“Radars pick up infrared signals that emanate from the hot core zone of fighter aircraft and missiles,” Prof Rathakrishnan told reporters on the sidelines of the 10th Asian Symposium on Visualisation being held at SRM University at Kattankulathur near Chennai on Monday. “This technology will minimise infra red emission and hoodwink the enemy radars.” He added that the Agni or Prithvi series of missiles too could take the enemies by surprise through this technology.
Prof Rathakrishnan said he developed the technology indigenously in the High Speed Aerodynamics Laboratory at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
He has also developed a system that will minimise the heat and sound generated during the launch of the Geo Synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicles of the Indian Space Research Organisation. “By installing the system, the heat and noise level at the time of launch of heavy GSLV rockets could be brought down considerably,” he said. “The noise level in supersonic jets which travel faster than sound too could be brought down to normal levels.”
According to the scientists assembled for the symposium, visualisation science would help in minimising effects of global warming, pollution and even earthquakes. This is the first time India is playing host to this symposium, which over the years have assumed a significant role in addressing issues related with structural engineering, clean environment and natural disasters.

http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/7565/02032010007017.jpg (http://img6.imageshack.us/i/02032010007017.jpg/)

Paratu vizhakal............
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/Politics/Nation/In-Kalaignar-honour-DMK-takes-sycophancy-to-new-heights/articleshow/5629643.cms

CUDDALORE: After ‘Pulli Raja' it is now ‘Dillu Dura'. These imaginary characters are intended to kindle curiosity among the people such as who they are and why they are projected.

Both the characters represent the common man assailed by doubts about the HIV. With scanty knowledge or no knowledge about HIV the vulnerable sections are in a dilemma as to how to ward off the ailment.

Therefore, to bring them out of the shell and to get treatment as in the case of other common ailments the Dillu Dura awareness campaign was launched in Cuddalore by District Collector P.Seetharaman.

The campaign van was preceded by cultural troupes, who enacted simple skits to convey the message that tying talisman or trying some locally jostled-up remedies will not cure HIV. What is often disturbing their minds is whether they have actually contracted the disease and if so how to get authenticated treatment.

The troupes advise the doubting Thomases to approach the Integrated Counselling and Testing Centres (ICTCs) to get clarifications. In the next 12 days the campaign would course its way through 13 blocks and 40 villages to cover an estimated population of 20,000.

The organisers, including the district administration, the Tamil Nadu AIDS Control Society and the District AIDS Prevention Control Unit, are of the opinion that an informed public is the best method to understand the risks and come forward to access the services without any hang-ups.

As on January 2010 a total of 48,965 people were screened for HIV in Cuddalore district and of them 741 have been put on the ART (anti-retroviral therapy) to extend their life span. Of the 49,916 pregnant women screened for HIV 59 had tested positive.

:)

A welcome initiative. Hope there is a change in mindset for all parties.
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http://www.indianexpress.com/news/when-dmk-brings-infy-nokia-for-rural-hiring/586122/1

Her best academic performance was when she scored a high 1110/1200 in her Class XII board exam. Three years later, Muthukannu holds job offer letters from three companies. The young mother, all of 21 years, was one of thousands who attended “Kalaignar 86 Job Fair”, organised by the DMK for the rural unemployed.

In a country where employment — or the lack of it — is a subject matter of Opposition politics, the ruling DMK is modifying the rhetoric by organising job fairs in the rural districts of Tamil Nadu. The “Kalaignar 86 Job Fair” is an all-expenses paid effort conceived and organised by the party, with neither the companies nor the candidates having to bear any of the cost or worry about arrangements. More importantly, nobody is barred from attending the fair, a welcome change in a state polarised by party politics.

The fair completed its seventh edition at Trichy on Sunday, after similar events were held earlier at Kariyapatti, Kanyakumari, Virudhunagar, Nilgiris, Vellore and Cuddalore. According to the DMK, it has so far found jobs for over a lakh youngsters, all from the rural pockets, in companies ranging from the bellwether IT firms to the tiny manufacturing units in the neighbourhood.

“In three days, we gave spot appointment letters to 36,297 candidates, all hailing from the various villages in Trichy,” said Kanimozhi, Rajya Sabha MP and Karunanidhi’s daughter, who has taken up the project after being convinced about its potential.

The idea germinated as a small-scale event, said State Minister for School Education Thangam Thenarasu, who first initiated the concept at Kariyapatti in his home constituency. “Two years ago, when we first tried it, there were about 30-odd companies and a few educated candidates from my constituency. It was meant to be a one-off event mainly held to help the technically-skilled youth in my constituency to secure a job,” he told The Indian Express.

Then in June last year, the party decided to extend the event to other areas as part of the long-drawn celebrations of DMK chief and Chief Minister M Karunanidhi’s birthday,

Over the last few months, it has evolved into a more structured event, supported by volunteers and monitored by police personnel. The stalls are provided with necessary facilities — from photocopiers to canteen, drinking water and even fax connections if a company has to get formal permission from head office.

MNCs and Indian corporate giants including TCS, Infosys and HCL in the IT sector, Nokia, Foxconn and TVS Group in the manufacturing sector, HDFC, Reliance and Airtel offering marketing jobs, Apollo Hospitals to Amrutanjan, Arcelor Mittal to Royal Enfield, franchisees of KFC and Marry Brown — there are now over 400 firms who have expressed interest in recruiting from rural Tamil Nadu.

“After one such fair, an official with HCL told me that the talent available outside the cities was an eye-opener for them. It is just that both these parties need a common platform to interact,” said Kanimozhi.

Like in the case of any district level party function, the job fair is organised from ground up. Weeks ahead of the event, advertisements are issued through the local media, wall posters and word of mouth, asking all unemployed youths between the ages of 18-30 years to fill forms at the panchayat level unit of the DMK.

After collecting the candidates’ basic details, they are given orientation classes, with experts being brought in to talk about what the companies look for in their potential employees, Kanimozhi said. Candidates are categorised into technically-skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled. Based on the number of applicants in each category, companies are invited for the job fair.

Over the past few months, the participants from both sides have increased manifold: of those companies who evinced interest, 289 were present at the recruiting venue in Trichy, while about 70,000 applied for various jobs. Call it the effect of inflationary times, there were hundreds of young mothers going from stall to stall to zero in on the right job.

Like 20-year-old Vasanthavalli, a class IX dropout. Or her neighbour and friend Rajeshwari, 26, who had studied till Class X before getting married six years ago. According to these women, though they wanted to earn money to support their families, they didn’t know whom to contact or what to do. Now, both have been placed in a knitwear company, that too near their homes.

“We are quite particular that there will be no pressure or recommendation to recruit any candidate who happens to be related to a DMK member. This brings in the credibility factor for the whole initiative,” said Kanimozhi, denying that there was any pressure on the private firms to attend and recruit.

She insisted that there was no petty politics that discriminated jobseekers. “In fact, I will be happy over the goodwill generated if a person from an AIADMK background lands a job,” she said.

^^

Though they above things are good, if the Govt is concentrating on creating a good infrastructure with a good investment policy like in gujarat, the companies they themselves will explore new oppurtunities.

^^

Though they above things are good, if the Govt is concentrating on creating a good infrastructure with a good investment policy like in gujarat, the companies they themselves will explore new oppurtunities.


for getting /giving jobs only needed thing is manpower, if it is skilled companies will be much more happy. thro' infrastructure, one can bring in companies but one cannot assure they recruit the local talent. the thing is both manpower and infrastructure needs to be developed. but one important point is that for long long times, TN is the happy hunting ground for all kind of companies and i dont think they recruit so many from Maha/NCR/Guj, the so called states with very good infra.

TN stands tall in manpower always.but,it was happening in cities only till recently. as said in article, there needed a platform where the companies and rural mass can interact and Kanimozhi provided that.
The idea is very good. Hats off to Kanimozhi and team.

for getting /giving jobs only needed thing is manpower, if it is skilled companies will be much more happy. thro' infrastructure, one can bring in companies but one cannot assure they recruit the local talent. the thing is both manpower and infrastructure needs to be developed. but one important point is that for long long times, TN is the happy hunting ground for all kind of companies and i dont think they recruit so many from Maha/NCR/Guj, the so called states with very good infra.

TN stands tall in manpower always.but,it was happening in cities only till recently. as said in article, there needed a platform where the companies and rural mass can interact and Kanimozhi provided that.
The idea is very good. Hats off to Kanimozhi and team.


if you have the good infrastructure and people are competent enough, they will hire anywhere. look at what is happening to manual labourers(construction workers,hotel servers) in chennai now, the people who are working there are mostly people from bihar they are getting employed cheaply, our south indian people have moved to SG,Romania, DUBAI, Malaysia and other countries and people here demand more salary.

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/chennai/unofficial-power-cuts-likely-soon-328

March 4: Many local bodies in the state might have to switch off their public lighting as they have not been able to foot their electricity bills. The total amount due from the local bodies to the TNEB is Rs 150.47 crore as on March 2009. The village panchayats, town panchayats, municipalities and corporations owe a huge amount to the TNEB over the last two years.
“We have approached the government for collecting the local body arrears. Earlier, the government had waived the surcharge on late payment for the local bodies in 2008. But, since the TNEB has a very huge subsidy burden, we may not be able to resort to the same every time. We want the government to take immediate action and we have also approached the government to collect the debts,” a senior TNEB official told this newspaper on conditions of anonymity.
He said the TNEB might have to resort to unofficial power cuts in the local bodies that owe huge amount to the board for months together now and “those local bodies which have not responded to our ultimatum,” the official added.
TNEB, in its tariff petition to the Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission, has said “The local bodies owe Rs 150.47 crore to the board as on March 30, 2009, and discussions are on with the government to realise the arrears from the local bodies and other government departments.”
TNEB has collected Rs 558.24 crore in 2004-2005; Rs 299.49 crore in 2005-06; Rs 455.30 crore during 2006-07; Rs 584. 08 crore for the period of 2007-08 and Rs 495. 97 crore during 2008-09.
Local bodies come under the Low Tension commercial slab and the tariff fixed for town panchayats, mun-icipalities and corporations is Rs 3.30 per unit. Local bodies use power for streetlights and common facility.

ALL THE BEST KARUN!! DO INDIA PROUD!! GREAT TO HAVE FORMULA 1 GUY FROM OUR STATE!! :banana::banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/chennai/karun-breaks-formula-1-351

March 4: Chennai driver Karun Chandhok will drive alongside the likes of Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton when the 2010 Formula One season begins in Bahrain on March 14.
The 26-year-old signed a one-year contract with new entrants Hispania Racing Team at Murcia (Spain) on Thursday. Karun, who reportedly has to pay 7.5 million euros to the Spanish team, will become the second Indian at the pinnacle of motorsport after Narain Karthikeyan’s stint with Jordan in 2005.
Karun’s entry into F1 has come as a shot in the arm for the sport, especially with the country scheduled to host a Grand Prix in 2011 at Greater Noida (near New Delhi).
Karun said it feels a bit surreal. “This is just an unbelievable feeling. I am absolutely thrilled to be able to fulfill a lifelong dream to break into Formula One. We’ve been working for so many years for this opportunity and now we’ve finally made it. Only when I get to Bahrain, I think it will fully sink in that I am going to be on the same grid as World champions such as Schumacher and Fernando Alonso,” said Karun.
Haing grown up in an atmosphere in which car racing was a subject of daily debate within the family, Karun’s passion for motorsport needs no amplification. Karun’s grandfather, Indu Chandhok, was a club level cricketer before being consumed by the passion for cars. He was among the architects of the Madras Motor Sports Club and the laying of the track at Irungattukottai. As for father Vicky, he was an enthusiastic driver both in races and rallies.

http://www.hindu.com/2010/03/05/stories/2010030555621700.htm

Corporates to dole out highest salary hike in Asia-Pacific

Hewitt Associates releases 14th annual survey

Technology, outsourcing sectors cautious

NEW DELHI: With India Inc. successfully coming out of global economic slowdown, executives across all sectors can look forward to a good salary hike this year.

As per the latest findings of human resource consultancy firm Hewitt Associates, Indian corporate sector and industry is expected to dole out the highest salary hike in the Asia-Pacific region this year.

“Salary increase for 2010 in India is projected to be 10.6 per cent, the highest in Asia Pacific and up 60 per cent from the actual increase of 6.6 per cent in 2009. Indian-owned companies are expected to outperform multinational corporations with a projected average increase of 11.4 per cent as against 10.2 per cent by the latter,” said the 14th annual ‘Salary increase survey' that covered 465 companies across 20 primary industries.

Energy, telecommunications, pharmaceutical, EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) and automotive are among the sectors projecting highest increases in salaries ranging from 11.6 per cent to 12.8 per cent. Technology and outsourcing sectors have shown tremendous recovery over 2009, but are playing cautiously with single digit increases in the range of 8.5 per cent to 8.9 per cent.

Banking and financial services sector, which was adversely hit due to the global downturn, would see a positive recovery with salary increase projection for 2010 at 10.5 per cent, the survey said.

“Organisations in India are positive and are looking at measured, realistic growth, with a keen eye on cost consolidation and prudence. The economy has shown faster recovery in sectors that rely on domestic growth and consumption, while recovery in sectors that have global dependence is expected to gain speed by mid-2010. This growth and the fact that 2009 saw a lot of salary freeze and salary cuts are providing an impetus for healthy increase in compensation for employees,” said Sandeep Chaudhary, leader of Hewitt's performance and rewards consulting practice in India.

The one definitive change in compensation philosophy reinforced is the performance and reward linkage, with top performers receiving twice as much salary increase as compared to average performers.

In keeping with the focus on cost and performance, variable pay as part of total compensation continues to grow with 24.8 per cent of top executive pay coming through this route and even the lowest rung officer cadre getting 11.3 per cent of their salary in variable compensation, he added.

http://indianinternetguru.blogspot.com/2010/03/boom-tv-setc-tamil-nadu-live-tv-using.html

http://indianinternetguru.blogspot.com/2010/03/boom-tv-setc-tamil-nadu-live-tv-using.html

Its great to see these facilities...

Always...I use to think...why long haul trains in India does not have even small Libraries/sort of entertainment areas.....They can even these type of 10 seater cinema halls...and charge Rs50..etc....Mamta mam wake up please,,,

^^ shows how insensitive and insecure some journalists can be. What is so 'newsy' about an extra-marital affair ? The only reason I can see is it makes 'juicy' reading.

This is what happens when when some new fresh graduate with his moral high pen starts writing about cultural policing.

There are better ways to address issues of polygamy and I dont think the average Tamil daily journalists are the best source to discuss such issues.

Good point.

Weekend Assignment ((:-

Techies!!!

Please write a program in any language to count total number of words, and number of words in each English alphabet. sort and list them alaphabetically along with percentage of recurrance.

Save an Opinion file from 'The Hindu'(a large one to minimise sampling error)in text format. Run your Executable on this file and list the output.

Pl post your results here. We may arrive at an interesting observation.And can discuss for a few days.

Cheers....

See bolded - how many words are in each English alphabet? :nuts:

FF,reading all those comments on Education, I thought IQ 0f guys here may be over 120. When I made a post on 'colour' of Tennis court at Nungambakkam, one guy replied,"It is blue,because it is blue". Great invention. He failed to read why I made that comment?The synthetic track was shown Green in one photo and blue in another. So unless thay have changed the playing area synthetic stuff, and photos were taken on two different occassions, before and after, the photos may represent diff. court. One will explain all this stuff to ordinary guys. Not you folks here.

"Haha we're not doing your homework for you!!", Again you assumed like an ordinary guy that ,I am in school. You are like my son FF.

Bless..

"Please write a program in any language" ( one will add "Programming" to oridinary guys. you are all brilliant achievers who don't need such foolhardy words.)

The above sentance has,

a-2 (words starting in 'a' 2 times)
i-1
l-1
p-2
w-1

Total number of words-7 and 'a' occurs 28.57% and so on.

Now it is very very clear for everyone. Since you have studied in Tamil medium, this exercise will bring out quite a few highlights....

This is serious stuff to probe 'something' which you will come to understand once you start thinking 'out of the box' on Tamil language. a few "whys

Just to play devil's advocate, what makes you think a computer program will be the way to test everyone's intelligence? I, for instance, am a rocket surgeon. I solve fluid dynamics and thermodynamic equations when I do brain surgery. :lol:

See bolded - how many words are in each English alphabet? :nuts:



Just to play devil's advocate, what makes you think a computer program will be the way to test everyone's intelligence? I, for instance, am a rocket surgeon. I solve fluid dynamics and thermodynamic equations when I do brain surgery. :lol:

^^
:cheers:

33% women reservation bill ippadi yellam kondaduranga

http://tm.dinakaran.com/pdf/2010/03/10/20100310b_008105005.jpg

dkn

^^ :D
Unlike men, women tend to have a strong sense of gender identity so all this.

^^ :D
Unlike men, women tend to have a strong sense of gender identity so all this.
Unlike men, women have been suppressed for a long time.

Unlike men, women have been suppressed for a long time.

men, as a group have been supressing themselves from realising thier own nature for a VERY long time. :D

[QUOTE=Arul Murugan;53195075]33% women reservation bill ippadi yellam kondaduranga
/QUOTE]

Why they are celebrating so early? Aren't they aware that the Bill needs to be passed by Loksabha,28 State Assemblies(two third of them) and finally signed by President to become a valid constitutional amendment?

Looks like Salem Parents provide very Nutritious food to their children!

^Probably for achieving the first baby step

Unlike men, women have been suppressed for a long time.

Nice observation. Though men as a whole may not have gender identity, I think supppressed group of people among men such as minorities, gay folks, etc. may have a strong identity amongst themselves.

So it appears the strong identity is because they have been/are being suppressed and as a result want to protect themselves agains different forms of suppression by forming groups.

Any women in this forum? I feel women participation in public forum is less..any particular reason?

Any women in this forum? I feel women participation in public forum is less..any particular reason?

They probably have much better things to do during the day :cheers: :lol:

:jk:

Any women in this forum? I feel women participation in public forum is less..any particular reason?

There are forums like india forum where there is a lot of female participation. Overall I think girls tend to use social networking sites like facebook or Orkut far more than online forums.

Saw this unmanned/unknown island with beaches/lagoons of the coast of Ramanathapuram district. It seems there are 21 unmanned islands around the Ramnad district.
This one could be developed into good resort.

http://i40.************/91kvna.jpg

Again there is some env. clearance required as this comes in Gulf of mannar biosphere and TN will not get any clearance.

Building 10 floors in chennai no clearance because of one 1 ton radar.
One elevated highway no clearance because water might flow in coovum like
in Godavari or krishna
One UMPP no clearance because the captive port is in palar basin and the next year CG will say no budget available

:bash::bash::bash:

Actually the island is called Uppu Tanni Tivu. It doesn't come under Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve as per the following wiki map:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/AMS-Gulf_of_Mannar.jpg (you can zoom it to see clearly)

However, it may be difficult to get the clearance even though it is not part of the reserve area.

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/chennai/quake-resistant-house-designed-989

March 10: Tamil Nadu has a solution for one of the major worries faced by the global community. Scientists in the state have succeeded in building earthquake-resistant homes and commercial complexes.
“Buildings incorporating the technology developed by us suffer only repairable damage in the event of moderate earthquakes. The cost of repairing, too, will be minimum,” Dr N. Lakshmanan, former director, structural engineering research centre, Chennai, told Deccan Chronicle.
Dr Lakshmanan, a structural engineer with nearly four decades of research experience behind him, said the technology developed by him would ensure the safety of the people in the event of earthquakes of higher magnitude — which is a concern as buildings grow vertically.
“The building constructed with this technology will not collapse under any circumstances. But we will not be able to repair them,” he said.
The technology ensures that the buildings remain as such though one has to demolish them and go for new buildings.
It is the vibration isolator which ensures building safety during earthquakes.
They are like the shock absorbers we see in vehicles.
The vibration isolators are placed between the foundation and the structure. The vibrations caused by earthquakes will be absorbed by these instruments,” explained Dr Lakshmanan.
He said the technology could be incorporated in big buildings like hospitals, community halls, schools and offices which are vulnerable to earthquakes.
Interestingly, the vibration isolators are made of rubber and steel. “We use reinforced multi-layered vibration isolators made of rubber and steel to protect the buildings,” said Dr Lakshmanan.
And what about the cost? “Well, it is an indigenously developed technology. Now it is for the entrepreneurs to take up the production of this instrument. It is definitely affordable by all sections of society,” declared Dr Lakshmanan.

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/chennai/quake-resistant-house-designed-989

March 10: Tamil Nadu has a solution for one of the major worries faced by the global community. Scientists in the state have succeeded in building earthquake-resistant homes and commercial complexes.
“Buildings incorporating the technology developed by us suffer only repairable damage in the event of moderate earthquakes. The cost of repairing, too, will be minimum,” Dr N. Lakshmanan, former director, structural engineering research centre, Chennai, told Deccan Chronicle.
Dr Lakshmanan, a structural engineer with nearly four decades of research experience behind him, said the technology developed by him would ensure the safety of the people in the event of earthquakes of higher magnitude — which is a concern as buildings grow vertically.
“The building constructed with this technology will not collapse under any circumstances. But we will not be able to repair them,” he said.
The technology ensures that the buildings remain as such though one has to demolish them and go for new buildings.
It is the vibration isolator which ensures building safety during earthquakes.
They are like the shock absorbers we see in vehicles.
The vibration isolators are placed between the foundation and the structure. The vibrations caused by earthquakes will be absorbed by these instruments,” explained Dr Lakshmanan.
He said the technology could be incorporated in big buildings like hospitals, community halls, schools and offices which are vulnerable to earthquakes.
Interestingly, the vibration isolators are made of rubber and steel. “We use reinforced multi-layered vibration isolators made of rubber and steel to protect the buildings,” said Dr Lakshmanan.
And what about the cost? “Well, it is an indigenously developed technology. Now it is for the entrepreneurs to take up the production of this instrument. It is definitely affordable by all sections of society,” declared Dr Lakshmanan.
Good effort, but is this any better than what they currently use for seismic-resistant buildings?

Old pictures of Tamilnadu assembly events

http://www.dailythanthi.com/thanthiepaper/1332010/FE_1303_MN_33_Cni-ph-1.jpg

If one really looks at the appropriate designs for Buildings iina particular seismic zone, it is not rocket science but basic design criteria.

CMDA and DTCP asks for testing of designs for MSBs at either IIT Madras or Anna University where they have the software to test them. But still more recent, better softwares have come.

Chennai after Tsunami has been downgraded to the next level of Seismic zone and all the MSBs are designed accordingly.

The main part is the compliance. There is no checking mechanism whether these buildings are really built as per the designs approved by IITM / AU.

Out of our own interest, we have set up some foolproof methods which can be practised at sites. But we can not say that every one does that.

We dont need more complicated systems similar to the ones they have at Taipei 101 or Japan or California. We neither have the money nor the expertise. We do not need them also as the perceived threat of Earthquake here is much less.

Saw this unmanned/unknown island with beaches/lagoons of the coast of Ramanathapuram district. It seems there are 21 unmanned islands around the Ramnad district.
This one could be developed into good resort.

http://i40.************/91kvna.jpg

This island has a big beautiful lagoon. Good idea to develop a resort. But, it doesn't look like it would handle a tsunami.

திராவிட இயக்கத்தை நிராகரிப்பது ஏன்?-1


தி. பொ. கமலநாதன் எழுதிய ‘தலித் விடுதலையும் திராவிடர் இயக்கமும்’ என்ற நூலை வாசித்துக் கொண்டிருந்தேன் (தமிழில் ஆ. சுந்தரம் எழுத்து பிரசுரம்) அதன் துணைத்தலைப்பு வித்தியாசமாக இருந்தது ‘மறைக்கப்படும் உண்மைகளும் கறை படிந்த அத்தியாயங்களும்’.

இந்நூலின் வரலாறு ஆர்வத்திற்குரியது 1980 களின் தொடக்கத்தில் பெங்களூரில் இருந்து வெளிவரும் ‘தலித் வாய்ஸ்’ என்ற ஆங்கில இதழ் திராவிட இயக்கம் தற்போது தலித்துக்களுக்கு எதிராக இருப்பதாகக் கூறி தலையங்கம் ஒன்றை எழுதியது. திராவிட இயக்கம்இன்று தமிழ் நாட்டில் நடக்கும் தீண்டாமை முதலிய சாதிக் கொடுமைகளுக்கு எதிராக எதுவுமே செய்யாமலிருக்கிறது என்று குற்றம் சுமத்தியது.

அதற்குப் பதிலாக திராவிட இயக்கத்தின் தலைவர் கி. வீரமணி அவர்கள் ஒரு நீண்ட மறுப்புரை எழுதி அதற்கு அனுப்ப அது வெளியிடப்பட்டது. அதில் திராவிட இயக்கத்தின் வழக்கமான கருத்து வடிவம் முன்வைக்கப்பட்டது. ஒன்று, சாதி வேற்றுமை தீண்டாமை முதலியவை பிராமணர்களால் உருவாக்கப்பட்டு நிலைநிறுத்தப்படுபவை. ஆகவே அதில் பாதிக்கப்படும் அனைவருமே சேர்ந்து பிராமணர்களை எதிர்க்க வேண்டும். பிற்பட்ட சாதியினரும் தலித்துக்களும் சேர்ந்து பிராமண எதிர்ப்பில் ஈடுபட வேண்டும். பிற்படுத்தப்பட்டோர் செய்யும் சாதிகொடுமைகளை பிராமணர்களின் பிரித்தாளும் சதியாக மட்டுமே பார்க்க வேண்டும்.

இரண்டாவதாக தலித்துக்களின் விடுதலைக்கான குரல் தமிழ்நாட்டில் திராவிட இயக்கத்தால் தான் உருவாக்கப்பட்டது. ஈ. வே. ரா அவர்கள் நடத்திய வைக்கம் சத்தியாக்கிரகத்திற்குப் பிறகே அத்தகைய விழிப்புணர்ச்சி தமிழ்நாட்டில் ஏற்பட்டது. தலித் விடுதலைக்கான போராட்டங்களை நடத்தியதும், அவர்கள் இன்று அடைந்துள்ள எல்லா நன்மைகளைப் பெற்றதும் திராவிட இயக்கத்தின் வழியாகவே.

இவ்விரு கருத்துக்களையும் விரிவாக மறுத்து கமலநாதன் அவர்கள் தலித் வாய்ஸ் இதழுக்கு நீண்ட கடிதம் எழுதினார். நீளம் கருதி அது பிரசுரிக்கப்படவில்லை. ஆகவே அதை அடிக்குறிப்புகள் சேர்த்து நூலாக பிரசுரித்தார். அந்நூலின் தமிழாக்கமே இந்த நூல்.

தலித்துக்களை அடிமைப்படுத்தியதிலும் இழிவு படுத்தியதிலும் பிராமணியத்திற்கு உள்ள பங்களிப்பைப் பற்றி கமலநாதன் அவர்களுக்கும் மாற்றுக் கருத்து ஏதும் இல்லை. ஆனால் பிராமணியம் என்ற பொது எதிரியை முன்வைத்து தலித்துக்கள் மீது நேரடியான ஒடுக்குமுறையைச் செலுத்தும் பிற்பட்ட மக்களின் சாதிவெறியை மழுப்ப நினைப்பது தலித் உரிமைப் போராட்டத்திற்கு எதிரானது என்று கமலநாதன் வாதிடுகிறார். தலித் அடையாளத்தை திராவிடம் என்ற அடையாளத்தில் அடக்கி விடமுடியாது என்று கூறுகிறார்.

அவரது கூற்றின்படி தலித்துக்கள் அவர்கள் தலித்துக்கள் என்பதனால்தான் பிற்பட்டோர் உட்பட அனைத்து சாதியினராலும் ஒடுக்கப்படுகிறார்கள். ஆகவே அந்த அடையாளத்துடன் அவர்கள் ஒருங்கிணைவதே சிறந்த போராட்ட முறையாக அமையமுடியும். அதற்கு திராவிட இயக்கத்தின் பொதுமைப்படுத்தல்கள் தடையாக ஆகக்கூடும் என்கிறார்.

தலித்துகளின் உரிமைக்கான போராட்டத்தை 1920ல் ஜஸ்டிஸ் கட்சி ஆட்சிக்கு வந்தபோதிருந்து ஆரம்பிப்பது என்பது தலித்துகளின் உரிமைக்காகப் போராடிய தலித் தலைவர்களின் பங்களிப்பை குறைத்து மதிப்பிடுவதும் அவமதிப்பதுமாகும் என்று வாதிடுகிறார் கமலநாதன். மிகவிரிவான ஒரு வரலாற்றுச் சித்திரத்தை உருவாக்கிக் காட்டுகிறார். இந்தியாவுக்கு வந்த மிஷினரிகளிடமிருந்து தலித் விடுதலைக்கான கருத்துக்கள் ஆரம்பிக்கின்றன. அயோத்திதாச பண்டிதர், இரட்டைமலை சீனிவாசன், எம். சி. ராஜா ஆகிய தலித் தலைவர்களின் அயராத உழைப்பால் தலித் விடுதலைக்கான கருத்தியல் சட்டகம் உருவாகிறது.

உண்மையில் தலித் விடுதலைப் போர் தனித்த இயக்கமாக வளராமல் செய்தது திராவிட இயக்கம். இதை பிற்பட்ட சாதியினரின் நலனுக்கான இயக்கமாக இருந்த திராவிட அரசியலுடன் இணைத்தல் வழியாக அதன் தனித்தன்மையையும் போர்க்குணத்தையும் இல்லாமலாக்கியது. திராவிட இயக்கத்தின் பிடியில் இருந்து விடுபட்ட பின்னரே தமிழ்நாட்டில் மீண்டும் தலித் இயக்கம் உருவாகி முக்கால் நூற்றாண்டு தாண்டிய பிறகும் தலித்துக்கள் மீதான ஒடுக்குதல்கள் அப்படியே இருந்தன. அவர்களின் கோரிக்கைகள் 1930 களில் எப்படி இருந்தனவோ அப்படியே நீடித்தன. அவற்றை 1980 களில் மீண்டும் புதிதாக கிளப்பி, போராட்டங்களை நிகழ்த்த வேண்டிய தேவை இருந்தது. அதன் விளைவாகவே இன்று தமிழகம் முழுக்க பலவகையான தலித் போராட்டங்கள் வேகம் கொண்டிருக்கின்றன.

அதாவது தங்களுடைய வரலாற்று ரீதியான போராட்டங்களையும் அதற்காக உருவாக்கிய கருத்துச் சட்டகத்தையும் திராவிட இயக்கம் எடுத்து வெறும் கோஷமாக மாற்றி பொருளிழக்கச்செய்தது என்றும் தங்கள் பிரச்சினைகளுக்காக அது எதையுமே செய்யவில்லை என்றும் தலித்தியக்கம் கூறுகிறது.

ஏறத்தாழ இதே வரலாற்றுச் சித்திரத்தை தமிழியர்களும் கூறுவார்கள். தமிழ் மொழி மற்றும் தமிழ்ப்பண்பாட்டின் தனித்தன்மை மறுக்கப்பட்ட ஒரு காலகட்டத்தில் வரலாற்றின் தேவையால் உருவானது தமிழியக்கம். தமிழ்நாடு ஏறத்தாழ 300 ஆண்டுகளாக தமிழரல்லாதவர்களால் ஆளப்பட்டது. தமிழகத்தை ஆண்ட நாயக்கர்களின் ஆட்சியும், மராட்டியர் ஆட்சியும் தமிழ்நாட்டின் பொருளியலுக்கும் மதத்திற்கும் பெரும் பங்களிப்புகளை ஆற்றியிருக்கின்றன. தமிழகத்தில் இன்றுள்ள சாலைகள், சந்தைகள், ஏரிகள் பெரும்பாலானவை இவர்களின் ஆட்சிக்காலத்தில் உருவானவை. இன்று நாம் காணும் தமிழக ஆலயங்கள் பெரும்பாலும் இவர்கள் காலகட்டத்தில் புதுப்பிக்கப்பட்டு எழுந்தவை.

ஆனால் இந்த அன்னிய ஆட்சிக்காலத்தில் தமிழ்ப்பண்பாடு புரவலர்களை இழந்து மெல்ல மெல்ல அழிய ஆரம்பித்தது. தமிழிசை கைவிடப்பட்டு மருவி கர்நாடக சங்கீதமாக ஆகியது. தமிழ் இலக்கியங்களை பேணிவந்த தமிழறிஞர் குடும்பங்கள் பேணுநரின்றி அழியவே தமிழ்நூல்கள் மறைந்தன. சம்ஸ்கிருதம் தெலுங்கு முதலியவை முன்னிறுத்தப்பட்டமையால் தமிழ் மொழிக்கலப்பு அடைந்து அதன் அழகை இழந்தது. இக்காலகட்டத்தில் தமிழின் மாபெரும் செவ்வியல் மரபு அனேகமாக மறக்கப்பட்டது. மதத்துடன் இணைந்திருந்த காரணத்தினால் பக்தி மரபு மட்டுமே உயிருடன் எஞ்சியது.

இந்திய மறுமலர்ச்சியின் காலகட்டத்தில் இந்தியா முழுக்க கிட்டத்தட்ட ஒரே சமயம் வட்டார மொழிகளைப் பற்றிய விழிப்புணர்வு உருவாகியது. அதே காலகட்டத்தில்தான் தமிழ்குறித்த விழிப்புணர்வு உருவாகியது. ஆங்கிலக்கல்வி மூலம் பண்பாட்டுப் பிரக்ஞை பெற்ற ஒரு புதிய தலைமுறை உருவாகி வந்ததே இதற்கு முதற்காரணம். அவர்கள் தங்கள் பண்பாடு குறித்த இனவுணர்ச்சியை உதறி பெருமிதத்தைப் பெற ஆரம்பித்தார்கள். விளைவாக தமிழ்ப் பண்பாட்டுச் சின்னங்கள் மீட்கப்பட்டன. அதற்கு அன்று உருவாகி வந்த அச்சு, பதிப்பு முதலிய துறைகளும் உதவி புரிந்தன.

தமிழியக்கத்தை மூன்று தளங்களில் நிகழ்ந்த செயல்பாடுகளாகப் பிரிக்கலாம். 1) தமிழ் நூல்களை பதிப்பித்தல் 2) தமிழிசை இயக்கம் 3) தனித்தமிழ் இயக்கம்.

ஏட்டுச்சுவடிகளில் பேணப்படாது அழியும் நிலையில் இருந்த தமிழ் நூல்களை தேடிக் கண்டுபிடித்து பிழைதிருத்தம் செய்து பொருள் குறிப்பு உருவாக்கி சீராக நூலாக கொண்டு வந்ததே தமிழை மீண்டும் உருவாகிய பெரும்பணி என்று கூறலாம். உ. வே. சாமிநாதய்யரே இப்பணியின் முன்னோடியாவார். சி. வை. தாமோதரம் பிள்ளை, ந. மு. வேங்கடசாமி நாட்டார், வ. உ. சிதம்பரம் பிள்ளை, வெள்ளக்கால் சுப்ரமனிய முதலியார், கெ.என்.சிவராஜ பிள்ளை, மனோன்மணியம் சுந்தரம் பிள்ளை, எஸ். வையாபுரிப் பிள்ளை போன்றவர்களை இத்துறையில் பெரும்பணியாற்றிய முன்னோடிகள் என்று கூறலாம்.

தமிழிசையே கர்நாடக இசையாக மருவியது என்று இலக்கணப்படியும் வரலாற்றின்படியும் நிலைநாட்டுவதும், வழக்கொழிந்து போன தமிழ்ப்பண்ணிசையினை மீண்டும் புத்துருவாக்கம் செய்வதும், தமிழ்ப் பாடல்களை மீண்டும் புழக்கத்திற்குக் கொண்டுவருவதும், தமிழ் பாடல்களை புதிதாக உருவாக்குவதும் தமிழிசை இயக்கத்தின் பணிகள். இதில் முன்னோடி என்று தஞ்சை ஆபிரகாம் பண்டிதரைச் சொல்ல வேண்டும். அண்ணாமலை அரசர், பரிதிமாற் கலைஞர் , விபுலானந்த அடிகள், தண்டபானி தேசிகர், குடந்தை சுந்தரேசனார், கல்கி, டி.கெ.சிதம்பரநாத முதலியார் போல பல முக்கியமான அறிஞர்கள் இத்துறையில் பெரும்பணி ஆற்றியிருக்கிறார்கள்.

தமிழில் மறந்து விட்ட பிறசொற்களை விலக்குவது, தமிழின் தூய சொற்களை புழக்கத்திற்குக் கொண்டு வருவது, தமிழில் புதிய கலைச் சொற்களை உருவாக்குவது ஆகியவை இவ்வியக்கத்தின் பணிகள். மறைமலை அடிகளை இந்த இயக்கத்தின் முன்னோடி, வழிகாட்டி என்று கூறலாம். பரிதிமாற் கலைஞர், ரா. பி. சேதுப்பிள்ளை, திரு. வி. கலியாணசுந்தரனார் போன்றவர்கள் இவ்வியக்கத்தின் முதல்வர்கள்.

தமிழியக்கம் என்பது திராவிட இயக்கத்துடன் எவ்வகையிலும் சம்பந்தம் உடையதாக இருக்கவில்லை என்பதே வரலாறு. தமிழியக்கம் பெரும்பாலும் சைவச் சார்பு உடையது. அதன் முன்னோடிகளில் பலர் காங்கிரஸ் அனுதாபிகளும் கூட. அரசியலில் ஜஸ்டிஸ் கட்சியின் குழந்தையாக உருவாகி வந்ததே திராவிட இயக்கம். ஜஸ்டிஸ் கட்சிக்கு தமிழியக்கத்தில் பெரிய ஆர்வம் இருந்ததில்லை. காரணம் அதில் பெரும்பாலானவர்கள் தமிழர்களல்ல. சொல்லப் போனால் அதற்கு தமிழ் அடையாளமே இருக்கவில்லை. தமிழர், தெலுங்கர், மலையாளிகள் கூடி உருவாக்கிய இயக்கம் அது. அதன் தலைவர்கள் ஆங்கில மோகம் கொண்ட அன்றைய உயர்குடிகள். பிரிட்டிஷ் அரசுடன் ஒத்துழைத்து தங்களுக்கான நலன்களைப் பேணிக்கொள்ள முயன்றவர்கள்.

ஜஸ்டிஸ் கட்சியில் இருந்து திராவிட இயக்கம் உருவான காலத்தில் கூட அதற்கு தமிழியக்கத்தில் ஆர்வம் இருந்ததில்லை. அக்காலத்தல் ஈ. வே. ரா அவர்கள் தீவிரமாக ஆங்கிலத்தை ஆதரிப்பவராகவும் தமிழை காட்டு மிராண்டி பாஷை என்று கூறுபவராகவும் தான் இருந்தார். இது தமிழ் நீசபாஷை என்று கூறிய சனாதனிகளிடமிருந்து எவ்வகையிலும் வேறுபட்ட தரப்பு அல்ல. அந்த தரப்பில் இருந்து தமிழ்ப்பற்றை நோக்கி திடீரென்று ஒரு தாவலை நிகழ்த்தியது திராவிட இயக்கம். அதற்கு சி.என்.அண்ணாத்துரை ஒரு காரணம்.

தமிழியக்கத்தின் ஆரம்பகால அறிஞர்களில் பலர் பிராமணர்கள். ஆனால் விரைவிலேயே பிராமணரல்லாத உயர்சாதியினரின் இயக்கமாக அது மாறியது. குறிப்பாக வேளாளர், முதலியார். இவர்களின் பிராமண எதிர்ப்புப் போக்கு காரணமாக திராவிட இயக்கத்திற்கும் இவர்களில் சிலருக்கும் இடையே ஒரு புரிந்துணர்வு உருவாகியது. ஆனால் அக்காலகட்டத்தில் திராவிட இயக்கத்திற்கும் தமிழியக்கத்திற்கும் நடுவேதான் கடுமையான மோதல்கள் உருவாகி நீடித்தன. தமிழியக்க முன்னோடிகளில் பலர் ஈவேராவை தமிழில் ஈடுபாடற்றவர், தமிழை அழிக்கவந்த கன்னடர் என்றே எண்ணினார்கள், இன்றும் அக்கால கட்டுரைகளில் அந்த விமரிசனங்கள் குவிந்துகிடக்கின்றன.

ஆனால் தமிழியக்கத்தின் ஆயுதங்களை சிறப்பாக பயன்படுத்த ஆரம்பித்த சி. என். அண்ணாதுரை அவர்கள் விரைவிலேயே தமிழியக்கத்திற்கும் திராவிட இயக்கத்திற்குமான முரண்பாடுகளை இல்லாமலாக்கினார். ‘ஒன்றே குலம் ஒருவனே தேவன்’ போன்ற வரிகள் இந்தச் சமரசத்தின் வழிகளே. திருமூலர் வரியை கூறுவதன் மூலம் பகுத்தறிவையும் இழக்காமல் சைவத்தையும் இழக்காமல் ஒரு சமரசத்தை அண்ணாதுரை மேற்கொண்டார். பின்னர் தமிழியக்கத்தின் எல்லா கோஷங்களையும் திராவிடஇயக்கம் எடுத்தாள ஆரம்பித்தது.

இன்று திராவிட இயக்கம் தமிழியக்கத்தின் எல்லா கடந்த காலச் சாதனைகளுக்கும் உரிமை கொண்டாடுகிறது. தமிழ் நூல்களை மீட்டது, தமிழிசையை வளர்த்தது, தனித்தமிழைப் பரப்பியது எல்லாமே ஈவேரா வில் தொடங்கும் திராவிட இயக்கத்தின் சாதனைகள் என்று இன்று சாதாரணமாக மேடைகளில் பேசுகிறார்கள். தமிழியக்க முன்னோடிகளான உ. வே. சாமிநாதய்யர், ஆபிரகாம் பண்டிதர், மறைமலை அடிகள் போன்றவர்கள் மறக்கப்பட்டு விட்டார்கள்.

ஆனால் உண்மையில் திராவிட இயக்கம் தமிழுக்கு என்ன செய்தது? நிலையாக எதுவுமே செய்யவில்லை என்பதே உண்மை. மேடைகளில் ஆர்ப்பாட்டமாகப் பேசுவதற்கு தனித்தமிழியக்கத்தின் சொல்லாட்சிகளை கடன்பெற்று பயன்படுத்தி வெற்றிக் கண்டது அது. சி. என். அண்ணாதுரை அவர்களின் மேடைமொழி ரா. பி. சேதுப்பிள்ளை, நாவலர் சோமசுந்தர பாரதியார் போன்றவர்களின் அடுக்குமொழிப் பாணியில் இருந்து கடன்பெற்றது என்பதை நாம் காணலாம். அவரை ஒட்டி தமிழை அலங்காரமாகப் பயன்படுத்தும் பேச்சாளர்களின் பெரும் படை ஒன்று கிளம்பியது. அவர்களின் வாரிசுகள் இன்றும் உள்ளனர். இவர்களை வைத்தே தமிழை திராவிட இயக்கம் வளர்த்தது என்ற பாமர நம்பிக்கை உருவாகி நீடிக்கிறது.

ஆனால் சி.என்.அண்ணாத்துரை, மு.கருணாநிதி போன்றவர்களின் மொழிநடையில் தனித்தமிழ் மிகக்குறைவே என்பதை பலர் கவனிப்பதில்லை. குறிப்பாக சி.என்.அண்ணாத்துரை அவர்களின் ஆரம்பகால பேச்சுகளில் கடினமான சம்ஸ்கிருதச் சொற்கள் புழங்கும். துவஜாரோகணம் போன்ற சொற்களைக்கூட அவரது உரைகளின் அக்கால பதிப்புகளில் காணமுடியும். அன்றும் தனித்தமிழியக்கவாதிகளே நல்ல தமிழ் பேசினார்கள்.

ஒரு மொழி வளரவும் வேர்விடவும் தேவையான அடிப்படைப் பணிகள் எதுவுமே தமிழில் திராவிட இயக்கத்தால் செய்யப்படவில்லை. திராவிட இயக்கம் போல மொழியரசியல் பேசியவர்கள் பதவியில் இல்லாத கேரளத்திலும் கர்நாடகத்திலும் செய்யப்பட்ட பெரும்பணியுடன் ஒப்பிடும்போது இது பரிதாபகரமான யதார்த்தம் என்பது புரியும்.

இந்தியாவுக்குச் சுதந்தரம் கிடைத்ததும் எல்லா இந்திய மாநிலங்களும் மாநில மொழிகளின் வளர்ச்சிக்காக திட்டங்கள் தீட்டி செயல்பட ஆரம்பித்தன. தமிழின் வளர்ச்சிக்காக அன்றைய காங்கிரஸ் அரசு மூன்று அடிப்படையான செயற்திட்டங்களை வகுத்தது. ஒன்று, தமிழை ஆட்சிமொழி ஆக்குவதற்கான கலைச்சொல்லாக்கம் இரண்டு, பேரகராதி தயாரிப்பு .மூன்று, தமிழில் கலைக்களஞ்சியம் கொண்டுவருதல், இம்மூன்று பணிகளையும் காங்கிரஸ் ஆட்சிக்காலத்தில் செய்து முடித்தார்கள். இன்றும் தமிழில் செய்யப்பட்ட மாபெரும் மொழிவளர்ச்சிப் பணிகளாக அவை நீடிக்கின்றன.

தமிழின் வளர்ச்சிக்கு பணியாற்றியவர்களில் தி. சு. அவினாசிலிங்கம் அவர்களின் பங்களிப்பு மகத்தானது. கல்வியமைச்சராக பணியாற்றிய அவர் அக்காலத்தைய திறன்மிக்க பேரறிஞர்களை எல்லாம் இப்பணிக்கு தன்னுடன் இணைத்துக் கொண்டார். ஏறத்தாழ இக்காலகட்டத்தில் தான் தமிழகத்தின் மாபெரும் ஆரம்பக்கல்வி இயக்கம் ஆரம்பிக்கப்பட்டது. தமிழகத்தை இன்றும் பிற மாநிலங்களில் இருந்து ஒருபடி முன்னால் நிற்கச் செய்த இயக்கம் அது. தமிழ் ஆரம்பக்கல்வி முதல் உயர்தளம் வரை புத்தெழுச்சி கண்ட காலகட்டம் இதுவேயாகும்.

ஆனால் இன்று இந்தச் சாதனைகளை வரலாற்றில் இருந்து தோண்டி எடுத்து திரும்பத்திரும்பச் சொல்லி நிறுவ வேண்டியிருக்கிறது. திராவிட இயக்கத்தின் ஆர்ப்பாட்டமான மேடையுரைகளிலும் கூசாமல் செய்யப்படும் வரலாற்றுத் திரிப்புகளும் இந்த உண்மைகளை முற்றாகவே மழுங்கச் செய்து விட்டிருக்கின்றன. இன்றும் பெரிய அநீதி என்னவென்றால் காங்கிரஸின் பணி உட்பட இந்த தொடக்ககாலத்து தமிழ் மறுமலர்ச்சியின் சாதனைகளை எல்லாம் திராவிட இயக்கம் தன்னுடையது என்று சொந்தம் கொண்டாடுகிறது என்பதே.

காங்கிரஸ் ஆட்சிக்காலத்தில் உருவாக்கப்பட்ட பேரகராதிக்கு இன்றுவரை ஒரு நல்ல மறுபதிப்பு கொண்டு வர பின்னர் வந்த திராவிட ஆட்சிகளால் இயலவில்லை. தமிழ்ப் பேரகராதிக்கு ஒரு மறு அச்சு கொண்டுவரக்கூட அவற்றால் முடியவில்லை. தமிழ்மொழிக்கு கடந்த ஐம்பதாண்டுக்கால திராவிட ஆட்சியில் செய்யப்பட்டது என எந்த பெரும்பணியும் கிடையாது. இதுவே நம் கண்முன் உள்ள உண்மையாகும்.

அதற்கு மாறாக நிகழ்ந்தது என்ன? எப்போதும் கவற்சியான மேடை உரைகள், விழாக்கள், கொண்டாட்டங்கள், ஆர்பாட்ட அறிவிப்புகள் மட்டுமே நிகழ்ந்தன. பெரும் திட்டங்கள் முன்வைக்கப்படும், ஆனால் அவை ஒரு போதும் எளிய முறையில் கூட நிறைவேற்றப்படாது. திராவிட ஆட்சியில் தமிழுக்கு என்று உருவாக்கப்பட்ட மிகப்பெரிய அமைப்பு என்றால் அது தஞ்சைத் தமிழ் பல்கலைக்கழகம்தான். அது கடந்த கால்நூற்றாண்டில் செய்த சாதனை என்ன என்று கேட்டால் சங்கடமான மௌனமே பதிலாக அமையும். அறிவிக்கப்பட்ட எல்லா திட்டங்களும் அரைகுறை முயற்சியாக முடிய இன்று செயலற்று பெறும் கட்டிடக்குவியலாக கிடக்கிறது அது.

இதே போன்றுதான் சென்ற காலங்களில் திராவிட இயக்கத்தால் நடத்தப்பட்ட உலகத்தமிழ் மாநாடுகளையும் கூறவேண்டும். பாமரர்கள் தவிர பிறர் எவரும் இந்த மாநாடுகளால் தமிழுக்கு ஏதேனும் நன்மை விளைந்தது என்று கூறமாட்டார்கள். திராவிட இயக்கத்தின் அடிபப்டை இயல்பே பெரும் திருவிழாக்களை நடத்துவதில்தான் இருக்கிறது. கூட்டம் ஆர்பபட்டம் அலங்காரம் என்றே அதன் மனம் செல்கிறது. அழுத்தமான ஆக்கப்பணிகளை அதனால் நீடித்தகால உழைப்புடன் ஆற்ற இயலாது.

பொதுத்தளத்தில் திராவிட இயக்கம் தமிழுக்குச் செய்த பணிகள் அனேகமாக ஏதும் இல்லை. இன்றும் தமிழில் தமிழ்வழிக்கல்வி சாத்தியப்படவில்லை. நேர்மாறாக எங்கும் எதிலும் ஆங்கிலம் மேலோங்கியது திராவிட இயக்க ஆட்சிக்காலத்திலேயே என தமிழியர்களே சொல்கிறார்கள். தமிழகத்தில் மெல்ல மெல்ல தமிழ் அழியும் நிலையிலேயே உள்ளது. தனிப்பட்ட முயற்சிகளினாலேயே தமிழை நிலைநிறுத்தும் பணிகள் நடக்கின்றன. இத்தனை பெரிய இயக்கமும் அரசும் இருந்த போதிலும் கூட அம்முயற்சிகளுக்கு மிக எளிய ஆதரவு கூட அளிக்கப்படவில்லை என்பது அனைவருக்கும் தெரிந்ததே.

திராவிட இயக்கம் செல்வாக்கு பெறுவதற்கு முன்னர் தமிழாராய்ச்சியின் ஒரு பொற்காலம் இருந்தது. உ. வே. சாமிநாதய்யர் முதல் தொடர்ச்சியாக இரண்டு தலைமுறைக்காலம் பிரமிக்கத்தக்க தமிழாராய்ச்சி நூல்கள் வெளிவந்தபடியே இருந்தன. இன்றும் கூட ஒரு தமிழ் வாசகன் அந்த ஆய்வுகளை பார்க்கும்போது அவற்றுக்கு அளிக்கப்பட்டுள்ள ஈடிணையற்ற உழைப்பு அயரச் செய்கிறது. ஆனால் திராவிட இயக்கம் வலுப்பெறும் தோறும் தமிழாய்வு வலுவிழந்தது. தமிழறிஞர்கள் அரசியல்வாதிகளாயினர். அரசியல் வாதிகள் தமிழறிஞர்கள் என்று அறியப்படலாயினர்.

திராவிட இயக்கத்தின் சாதனை என்றால் நமது கல்விப் புலத்தை முழுமையாகக் கைப்பற்றி அங்கே தமிழாய்வே நிகழாமல் செய்ததுதான். இன்று எந்த ஒரு இந்திய மொழியிலாவது ஒரு வருடத்தில் குறிப்பிடத்தக்க ஒரு ஆய்வுகூட வராத தேக்க நிலை உள்ளது என்றால் அது தமிழில்தான். எப்போதுமே தமிழாய்வுப் புலத்தைக் கூர்ந்து கவனிப்பவன் என்ற முறையில் இந்த வெறுமை எனக்கு பெரும் திகைப்பையே ஊட்டுகிறது. பழைய ஆய்வுகளை நகல் எடுப்பதே இன்று ஆய்வு என்று ஆகிவிட்டிருக்கிறது.

இன்று தமிழாய்வு நிகழ்வது கல்விப் புலத்திற்கு வெளியே தனிநபர்களின் அந்தரங்கமான ஈடுபாட்டின் விளைவாகத்தான். அவ்வப்போது குறிப்பிடத்தக்க நூல்கள் அவர்களிடமிருந்தே வெளிவருகின்றன. அவர்களில் சிலருக்கு திராவிட இயக்கம் குறித்து நல்லெண்ணம் இருக்கலாம். ஆனால் திராவிட இயக்கத்தில் இருந்து உருவாகி வரும் தமிழாய்வு என்று அனேகமாக ஏதுமில்லை.

மிகச் சாதாரணமான தலைமைத்துதிகள், கொள்கை விளக்கத்துண்டுப் பிரசுரங்களைத்தவிர இன்றுள்ள இருபெரும் திராவிட இயக்க அமைப்புகள் உருவாக்கும் இலக்கியமோ, ஆய்வோ என்ன என்று யோசித்துப் பாருங்கள். ஒரு வாசகனாக இத்தனை பெரிய திராவிட இயக்கம் அதன் பல லட்சம் தொண்டர்கள் பலகோடி ஆதரவாளர்கள் கோடானு கோடி பணம், அரசு அதிகாரம் ஆகியவற்றின் மூலம் உங்களுக்கு வாசிப்பதற்காக உருவாக்கியளித்த நூல்கள் எவை? எத்தனை தத்துவநூல்கள், எத்தனை இலக்கியபப்டைப்புகள்?

எந்த ஒரு மொழியும் அறிவுத்துறைகளின் புதிய போக்குகளை உள்வாங்கிக் கொள்ளும் போதும் இலக்கியம் மூலம் நவீன காலகட்டத்தை எதிர் கொள்ளும்போதும் மட்டுமே வாழும் மொழியாக இருக்க முடியும். திராவிட இயக்கம் அதன் தொடக்கம் முதல் இன்று வரை நவீன இலக்கியத்திற்கு எதிரான சக்தியாகவே இருந்துள்ளது. தமிழில் உருவாகி வந்த நவீன இலக்கியத்தை அது ஒருபோதும் பொருட்படுத்தியதில்லை. இன்றுவரை புதுமைபித்தனின் பெயரை எந்த திராவிட இயக்க அறிவுஜீவியும் கூறியதில்லை.

மாறாக திராவிட இயக்கத்தின் ஆர்வம் தமிழின் வணிக இலக்கியத்தின் உத்திகளை கட்சிப்பிரச்சாரத்திற்குப் பயன்படுத்துவதாகவே இருந்தது. திராவிட இயக்கம் தமிழ்ச் சூழலை முழுக்க மூடியிருந்த சூழலில் அதை மீறி ஒரு சிறிய வட்டத்திற்குள் இலக்கியத்தில் ஈடுபட்டவர்களின் பிடிவாதம் மற்றும் அர்ப்பணம் மூலமே தமிழில் நவீன இலக்கியம் உருவாகி வந்தது. தமிழ் நவீன இலக்கியத்தின் மரபை சிற்றிதழ்கள்தான் உருவாக்கி பேணி முன்னெடுத்தன. மொத்தச் சிற்றிதழ் இயக்கமே திராவிட இயக்கத்தின் பரவலான பெரும் பண்பாட்டுக்கு எதிரான குறுங்குழுச் செயல்பாடுதான்.

இந்தக் குறுங்குழுவுக்குள் தான் தமிழில் உலக சிந்தனைகள் பேசப்பட்டன. கோட்பாடுகள் இறக்குமதியாயின. அறிவார்ந்த விவாதங்கள் நடந்தன. நீங்கள் இன்று பேசும் தமிழ்க் கலைச்சொற்களில் பெரும்பகுதி உருவாகி வந்தது. நீங்கள் இன்று தமிழின் இலக்கியச் செல்வங்கள் என எவற்றையெல்லாம் முன்வைக்கிறீர்களோ, எவற்றையெல்லாம் ரசிக்கிறீர்களோ அவையெல்லாம் இந்தச் சிறிய வட்டத்தால் உருவாக்கப்பட்டவை மட்டுமே. அவற்றை உருவாக்கியவர்கள் பணமோ அங்கீகாரமோ இல்லாமல் தங்கள் உள்வேகம் காரணமாகவே அவற்றை உருவாக்கினார்கள். எந்தவித கவனிப்பும் இன்றி மறைந்தார்கள். அவர்களின் வட்டத்திற்கு வெளியே தமிழ் தமிழ் என்று வெற்று ஓசையை எழுப்பியபடி ஊடகங்களை, மேடைகளை, கல்விப்புலத்தை நிறைத்து செயல்பட்டுக் கொண்டிருந்தது திராவிட இயக்கம்.

இந்த சிறிய அறிவியக்கத்தின் தொடர்ச்சியாக தன்னை உணரும் ஒருவர், இதன் விளைவுகளை அனுபவிக்கும் ஒருவர் ஒருபோதும் திராவிட இயக்கத்தின் மீது நம்பிக்கை கொள்ள இயலாது. பல வருடங்களுக்கு முன்னர் சிற்றிதழ்ச் சூழலுக்குள் திராவிட இயக்கத்தின் பெருமை பேசும் ஒரு சில குரல்கள் ஒலித்தன. உதாரணம் அ. இரா. வெங்கடசலபதி. ஆனால் அவருடைய ஆய்வுகளை நிகழ்த்துவதற்கும் விவாதிப்பதற்குமான களத்தை சிற்றிதழ்ச் சூழல்தான் தன் சிறிய வட்டத்திற்குள் உருவாக்கி அளித்தது. அவர் அந்த வாசகர்களை நம்பித்தான் பேசவேண்டியிருந்தது.

மாபெரும் பண்பாட்டு சக்தி என்று அவர் வருணித்த திராவிட இயக்கம் அவருக்கு எளிய ஒரு மேடையைக்கூட உருவாக்க வில்லை. இன்றும் அந்த தளத்தில் அவரைப்போன்ற ஓர் அறிஞருக்கு எந்த இடமும் இல்லை. திராவிட இயக்கமேடை அர்த்தமற்ற வெட்டிப்பேச்சுக்கானதாக மட்டுமே இருந்தது. திராவிட இயக்கம் காங்கிரஸ் ஆட்சியில் தொடங்கப்பட்ட திட்டங்களை முழுமைசெய்யக் கூட முயலவில்லை, தூரனின் கலைக்களஞ்சியம், வையாபுரிப்பிள்ளையின் பேரகராதி முதலிய பெருமுயற்சிகள் மதிக்கப்படவில்லை என்று அவரே கூறினார் பிறகு.

திராவிட இயக்கம் மேடையில் தமிழை கொண்டுவந்தது என்று ஒரு பரவலான நம்பிக்கை உள்ளது. உண்மையில் இதுவும் ஒரு மூடநம்பிக்கையே. தமிழில் மேடையுரை என்ற வடிவம் திராவிட இயக்கம் உருவாவதற்கு முன்னரே உருவாகிவிட்டிருந்தது. அதற்கு நாம் பத்தொண்பதாம் நூற்றாண்டு சைவமறுமலர்ச்சி இயக்கத்திற்கே நன்றிக்கடன் பட்டிருக்கிறோம். சைவத்தை வெகுஜன இயக்கமாக ஆக்கும் நோக்குடன் ஏறத்தாழ ஐம்பதாண்டுக்காலம் தமிழில் பரவலாக நடைபெற்ற அவ்வியக்கம்தான் தமிழ் மரபின் மாபெரும் பேச்சாளர்களை உருவாக்கியது

தமிழின் மேடையுரையின் முன்னோடி என்று சைவப்பேச்சாளரான ஞானியார் சுவாமிகளையே சொல்லவேண்டும். பின்னர் பெரும்பேச்சாளர்களாக ஆன திரு. வி. கல்யாணசுந்தரனார், மறைமலை அடிகள் போன்றவர்கள் அவரது பாணியை பின்பற்றியவர்களே. வாழ்நாளெல்லாம் ஒருநாள் கூட தவறாமல் மேடையில் பேசியவர் ஞானியார் சுவாமிகள். அடுத்த தலைமுறையில் ரா. பி. சேதுப்பிள்ளை, நாவலர் சோமசுந்தர பாரதியார் முதலியவர்கள். அந்த மரபின் நீட்சியே குன்றக்குடி அடிகளார், புலவர் கீரன் முதலியவர்கள்.

தூயதமிழை அழகிய முறையில் மேடையில் பேசுவதற்கும் பெருவாரியான மக்கள் விரும்பும்படி சொற்பொழிவை எளிமையாகக் கொண்டு செல்வதற்கும் முயன்று பெருவெற்றி பெற்றவர்கள் இவர்கள். திரு. வி. க, மறைமலையடிகள் போன்றவர்களின் சுயசரிதைகளில் இவர்களின் கூட்டங்கள் எத்தனை பெரிய மக்கள் பங்கேற்புடன் நடந்தன என்று பதிவாகியிருக்கிறது. இவர்களின் உரை முறையை தானும் பின்பற்றியவர்தான் திராவிட இயக்கத்தின் ஆகப்பெரிய பேச்சாளரான சி.என்.அண்ணாதுரை அவர்கள்.

மரபிலக்கியத்தை ரசிப்பதற்கும் மதிப்பதற்கும் திராவிட இயக்கம் கற்றுத்தந்தது என்பது கூட எந்தவகையில் சரி என்று பார்க்க வேண்டும். தமிழின் பிரம்மாண்டமான இலக்கியமரபில் ஒரு சிறுபகுதியை மட்டுமே திராவிட இயக்கம் கருத்தில் கொண்டது. சங்க இலக்கியம், சிலப்பதிகாரம், குறள் அவ்வளவுதான். தமிழிலக்கிய மரபின் ஆகப்பெரிய இலக்கிய சாதனையும் தமிழ்ப்பண்பாட்டின் மகத்தான பதிவுமான கம்பராமாயணம் திராவிட இயக்கத்தால் இகழ்ந்து ஒதுக்கப்பட்டது. ஈவேரா அவர்களும் அவரது வழிவந்த சி. என். அண்ணாதுரை அவர்களும் கம்பராமாயணத்தை ஆபாச இலக்கியம் என்று வசைபாடினர்.

அவர்களுடைய இலக்கிய நோக்கு மிக எளிய விக்டோரிய ஒழுக்கவியலால் ஆனதாக இருந்தது. அத்தகைய ஒழுக்கவியலை வைத்துக்கொண்டு எந்தப் பேரிலக்கியத்தையும் மதிப்பிட முடியாது, பைபிளைக்கூட புரிந்துகொள்ள முடியாது என்று அவர்கள் உணர்ந்திருக்கவில்லை. அந்த அளவுகோலை வைத்து சங்க இலக்கியத்தையும் நிராகரித்துவிட முடியும் என்றுகூட புரிந்துகொள்ள வில்லை. ஈவேரா அவர்கள் அந்த அளவுகோலை அப்படியே பயன்படுத்தி குறள், சிலப்பதிகாரம் அனைத்தையும் ஒட்டுமொத்தமாக நிராகரித்தபோது சி. என். அண்ணாதுரை அவற்றை மட்டுமாவது தக்கவைத்துக் கொள்வதற்காக தன் அளவுகோல்களை மழுப்பினார்.

தமிழின் பெரும் இலக்கியச் செல்வங்களான சீவகசிந்தாமணி, மணிமேகலை போன்றவை திராவிட இயக்கத்தின் எளிய இலக்கிய அணுகுமுறையால் மூடநம்பிக்கையை வளர்ப்பவை என புறக்கணிக்கப்பட்டன. தமிழின் பிரம்மாண்டமான பக்தி இலக்கிய மரபு முழுமையாக நிராகரிக்கப்பட்டது. சிற்றிலக்கிய காலகட்டம் ஒதுக்கப்பட்டது. காரைக்குடி சா. கணேசன் அமைத்த கம்பன்கழகம் போன்ற அமைப்புகளாலும் டி. கெ. சிதம்பரநாத முதலியார், நீதிபதி மு. மு. இஸ்மாயீல் போன்றவர்களாலும் கம்பராமாயணம் திராவிட இயக்கத்தின் எதிர்பிரச்சார அலையில் இருந்து மீட்கப்பட்டு தமிழர்களின் ரசனையில் அழுத்தமாக நிலைநாட்டப்பட்டது. அவ்வியக்கம் இல்லாமலிருந்திருந்தால் ஒருவேளை கம்பனை ஒரு தலைமுறை தொலைப்பதற்கு திராவிட இயக்கம் காரணமாக அமைந்திருக்கும்.

அதேபோல வைணவ இயக்கத்தாரால் பிரபந்தங்கள் பேணப்பட்டன. சைவத்திருமுறைகள் சைவர்களால் நிலைநிறுத்தப்பட்டன. சேக்கிழாரின் பெரியபுராணத்தை திராவிட இயக்கத்தின் தாக்குதல்களிலிருந்து மீட்கவும் பாரதியை திராவிட இயக்கத்தின் திரிப்புகளில் இருந்து மீட்கவும் தொடர்ச்சியான அறிவியக்கங்கள் தேவைப்பட்டன. இன்று கூட தலைமுறை தலைமுறையாக உருவாகிவரும் ஆய்வாளர்கள் பாரதி குறித்த அவதூறுகளுக்கு ஆய்வுகள் மூலம் பதில் கூறியபடியே உள்ளனர்.

கடைசியாக திராவிட இயக்கம் கடந்த அரைநூற்றாண்டுக்கும் மேலாக வலிந்து முன்னிறுத்திய நூல்களான திருக்குறள், சிலப்பதிகாரம், சங்க இலக்கியம் ஆகியவற்றுக்கு அவ்வியக்கம் இதுவரை உருவாக்கிய ஆய்வுகள் என்ன என்று பார்க்கும் எவரும் ஆழமான அயர்ச்சியை மட்டுமே உணர்வார்கள். குறள் மீது இதுவரை நடந்துள்ள ஆய்வுகளில் முக்கியமான அனைத்துமே திராவிட இயக்கத்திற்கு முன்னரே உருவாகிவிட்டவை. குறளுக்கு இன்று கிடைக்கும் தரமான ஒரே ஆய்வுப் பதிப்பு கி. வா. ஜகன்னாதன் அவர்களால் செய்யப்பட்டது.

உண்மையில் அவற்றையும் கருத்தில் கொண்டு பார்த்தால் கூட தமிழில் குறள் குறித்து இதுவரை செய்யப்பட்டுள்ள ஆய்வுகள் முற்றிலும் போதாதவை என்பது ஓரளவு ஆய்வு நோக்குடன் அணுகக் கூடிய எவருக்குமே தெரியவரும். குறளுக்கும் இந்திய இலக்கிய மரபுக்கும் இடையேயான தொடர்புகள், குறளுக்கும் சமண மரபுகளுக்கும் இடையேயான தொடர்புகள், குறளுக்கும் இந்திய தர்மசாஸ்திரங்களுக்கும் இடையேயான தொடர்புகள், குறளுக்கும் இந்தியாவின் நாட்டார் நீதி மரபுகளுக்கும் இடையேயான தொடர்புகள் என ஆய்வு செய்யப் படாத பகுதிகள் விரிந்து பரந்து கிடக்கின்றன. ஏன், குறளுக்கும் சீவகசிந்தாமணிக்கும் இடையே உள்ள உறவுகளை இன்றும் ஆராயப்படாத ஒரு களம் தான்.

சிலப்பதிகாரம் குறித்து கூறவே வேண்டியதில்லை. இன்றுவரை ஒரு நல்ல ஆய்வுப்பதிப்புகூட சிலப்பதிகாரத்திற்கு இல்லை. ஔவை துரைசாமிப்பிள்ளைக்குப் பின் சங்க இலக்கியம் குறித்து நேரடியான ஆய்வுகளே நிகழவில்லை. முந்தைய ஆய்வுகளை பிரதிசெய்யும் ஆய்வுகளே உள்ளன. சங்க இலக்கியங்களுக்கும் இந்திய தொல் இலக்கியங்களுக்குமான ஒப்பீடு, இந்திய நாட்டாரியல் இலக்கியத்துடன் சங்க இலக்கியத்தை ஒப்பிட்டு ஆராய்தல் போன்ற பெரும்பணிகள் அப்படியே விடப்பட்டிருக்கின்றன. திராவிட இயக்கம் உருவாக்கியதெல்லாம் சில மேலோட்டமான விளக்கஉரைகளை மட்டுமே.

பிற ஆய்வுத்தளங்களில் தமிழ்ப் பண்பாடு மற்றும் வரலாற்று ஆராய்ச்சிக்கான முயற்சிகள் எவையும் நிகழவில்லை. இத்தகைய முழுமையான செயலிழப்பு எப்படி ஏன் நிகழ்ந்தது என்பதே கேட்கக் கேட்க ஆற்றாமை எழும் ஒன்றாக உள்ளது. தமிழகத்தின் வரலாற்றாய்வு நீலகண்டசாஸ்திரி, சதாசிவப் பண்டாரத்தார் காலகட்டத்திற்குப் பிறகு எதுவுமே நிகழாமல் உறைந்து விட்டது. அவர்கள் தமிழக வரலாற்றின் ஒரு கோட்டுச்சித்திரத்தை உருவாக்கி கால அட்டவணை போட்டுக் கொடுத்தார்கள். அது ஒரு முன்வரைவு. அதை நுண் வரலாறுகளால் நிரப்பும் பெரும்பணி முற்றிலுமாக கைவிடப்பட்டுவிட்டது.

இன்று கல்விப்புலம் சார்ந்து வரலாற்றாய்வே நிகழவில்லை. வரலாற்றாய்வில் அங்கொன்றும் இங்கொன்றுமாக சில தனிநபர் உதிரி முயற்சிகள் மட்டுமே நிகழ்கின்றன. ஆனால் உண்மையான வரலாற்றாய்வு என்பது அப்படி தனிமுயற்சிகளால் செய்யபப்ட முடியாது. ஒவ்வொருவரும் ஒரு இடத்தை நிரப்ப ஒரு கூட்ட்டுச்செயல்பாடாக, ஓர் அறிவியக்கமாக வரலாற்றாய்வு நிகழ்த்தப்படவேண்டும். அகழ்வாய்வு,நாணய ஆய்வு, கல்வெட்டாய்வு போன்றவற்றுக்கு மேலாக நாட்டாரியல், மானுடவியல்,சமூகவியல், மொழியியல், குறியியல் போன்ற பலதுறைகளை இணைத்து அந்த ஆய்வுகள் செய்யப்படவேண்டும். அது கல்வித்துறையாலேயே செய்யப்பட முடியும். தமிழில் அதற்கான வாய்ப்புகள் ஏதும் இப்போது தெரியவில்லை.

கடந்த ஐம்பதாண்டுக்காலத்தில் பிரம்மாண்டமான திராவிட இயக்கத்தின் தரப்பில் இருந்து தமிழக வரலாற்றாய்வில் நிகழ்ந்த பங்களிப்பு என்று எதுவுமே கிடையாது. திராவிட இயக்கத்தின் பணி என்று உலக அரங்கில் எடுத்து வைக்கத்தக்க ஒரே ஒரு ஆய்வுநூல்கூட எழுதப்பட்டதில்லை, முன்வைக்கப்பட்டதுமில்லை. சுட்டிக்காட்டும்படியான ஒரே ஒரு திராவிட இயக்க வரலாற்றாசிரியர்கூட கிடையாது என்பதே உண்மை. திராவிடவியல் சார்ந்த ஆய்வுகளை குறிப்பிடும்படிச் செய்த அமைப்பு என்றால் வி.ஐ.சுப்ரமணியம் அவர்களின் முயற்சியால் சந்திரபாபு நாயிடுவின் ஆதரவில் ஆந்திரத்தில் அமைந்த குப்பம் திராவிடப் பல்கலையைதான் சொல்லவேண்டும்.

தமிழகத்தில்தான் இந்தியாவிலேயே அதிகமான அளவுக்கு கல்வெட்டுகள் கண்டடையப்பட்டுள்ளன. இந்தக் கல்வெட்டுகளில் முக்கால்பங்கு இன்னமும் பரிசோதிக்கப்பட்டு நூல்வடிவம் பெறவில்லை. ஆய்வாளர்களும் நிதியும் இல்லை என்கிறார்கள். இக்கல்வெட்டுகளை ஆராய்ந்து வரலாற்று தகவல்களை உறுதிசெய்யும் பெரும்பணி அதற்குப் பின்னர்தான் தொடங்கப்பட முடியும். தமிழக வரலாற்றுடன் சம்பந்தப்பட்ட ஜேசுசபை குறிப்புகள், இலத்தீன், போர்ச்சுகல், ஜெர்மானிய மொழிகளில் ஏராளமாக இன்று பொதுவாசிப்புக்கு வந்துள்ளன. அவை எதுவும் இன்னமும் தமிழில் மொழியாக்கம் செய்யப்படவில்லை. அவை சார்ந்து ஆய்வுகளும் செய்யப்படவில்லை.

தமிழகம் சார்ந்த காலனியாதிக்க காலகட்டத்து ஆவணங்கள் பிரெஞ்சு, டச்சு, ஆங்கில மொழிகளில் ஏராளமாக உள்ளன அவை எதுவும் இன்றும் தமிழில் மொழியாக்கம் செய்யப்படவில்லை. பதினெட்டாம் நூற்றாண்டு முதல் தமிழக ஆலயங்கள், ஆலயச்சொத்துக்கள் குறித்த நீதிமன்ற ஆவணங்கள் பல்லாயிரம் உள்ளன. அவை இன்னமும் மொழியாகம்செய்யபப்டவோ ஆய்வுக்குறிப்புகளாக தொகுக்கப்படவோ இல்லை. வள்லலாரின் அருட்பா மருட்பா வழக்கு சம்பந்தமாக மஞ்சக்குப்பம் நீதிமன்றத்தில் இருந்து மூல ஆவணங்களை எடுத்து ப.சரவணன் செய்துள்ள ஆய்வு அவை எத்தனை பெரிய பொக்கிஷங்கள் என்பதைக் காட்டுகின்றது.

ஏன், தமிழக வரலாறு சார்ந்து ஆங்கிலத்தில் எழுதப்பட்ட பல நூல்கள் இன்னும் தமிழுக்கு மொழிபெயர்ப்பு செய்யப்படவில்லை. மலையாளத்திலும் கன்னடத்திலும் எல்லாம் இந்த மொழியாக்கங்களை அரசாங்கத்தின் பிரசுரத்துறையே செய்து விடுகிறது. கேரள அரசின் பிரசுரத்துறை கேரளம் குறித்த முக்கியமான நூல்களை அனைத்தையுமே மலையாளத்திற்கு கொண்டு வருகிறது. வருடம்தோறும் கிட்டத்தட்ட நூறு நூல்கள்! அவை மிகப்பெரிய ஓர் அறிவுக்குவை. அத்தகைய அமைப்போ முயற்சியோ நமது அரசு சார்பிலும் செய்யப்படவில்லை. பல்கலை கழகங்கள் சார்பிலும் செய்யப்படவில்லை. இத்தனைக்கும் ‘செம்மொழியா’ன தமிழில் மலையாளத்திற்குச் செலவிடப்படுவதைவிட பத்து மடங்கு அதிகமான தொகை வருடம் தோறும் செலவிடப்படுகிறது.

தமிழகத்தில் மாபெரும் ஆவணச் சுரங்கங்கள் இரண்டு உள்ளன. ஒன்று சென்னையில் உள்ள மக்கின்சி கீழ்த்திசை கைப்பிரதி ஆவண மையம். இன்னொன்று தஞ்சை சரஸ்வதி மகால் ஆவண மையம். இங்குள்ள தமிழ் சார்ந்த ஆவணங்களில் மிகச்சிறு பகுதியே ஆய்வுக்கு உட்படுத்தப்பட்டு நூல் வடிவம் பெற்றுள்ளது என்று சொல்லப்படுகிறது. மீதிப் பெரும்பகுதி இன்னமும் தீண்டப்படாமல் தூங்குகின்றது.

ஏன் தமிழின் பொக்கிஷங்கள் என்று சொல்லப்படும் பல மகத்தான ஆக்கங்கள் திராவிட இயக்கம் கோலோச்சிய இந்த அரைநூற்றண்டுக்காலத்தில் மறுபதிப்பே வராமல் மறைந்தன என்றால் என்ன சொல்ல? ஆபிரகாம் பண்டிதரின் கர்ணாமிர்த சாகரம் எத்தனை பதிப்பு வந்திருக்கிறது என்று பார்த்தால் வியப்பே ஏற்படும். விபுலானந்தரின் யாழ்நூல் சிவதாசன் என்ற ஒரு புலம்பெயர்ந்த ஈழத்தமிழ் வணிகரால் பல வருடங்களுக்குப் பின்னர் மறு பதிப்புசெய்யப்பட்டது.

இந்தியாவில் வேறெங்கும் இல்லாத அளவுக்கு மாபெரும் நாட்டார் பண்பாடு உள்ள பகுதி தமிழ்நாடு. தமிழக நாட்டார்கலைகளை மூட நம்பிக்கை சார்ந்தவை என்று திராவிட இயக்கம் புறமொதுக்கி அழிக்கத் தலைப்பட்டது. நாட்டார் கலைகள் அழிந்து அங்கே சினிமா சார்ந்த கேளிக்கைகள் இடம்பிடித்தமைக்கு திராவிட இயக்கத்தின் இந்த முதிரா பகுத்தறிவு வாதம் ஒரு முக்கியமான காரணம்.

ஆனால் திராவிட இயக்கத்தைவிட இறைமறுப்பு கொள்கை கொண்டிருந்த போதிலும் இடதுசாரிகள் நாட்டார்கலைகளை மக்கள் கலைகளாகப் பேணி முன்னெடுத்தனர். நாட்டார்கலைகளை புரிந்து கொள்ளவும் பேணவும் வழியமைத்த கருத்துக்களை உருவாக்கிய முன்னோடி என்று இடதுசாரி ஆய்வாளர் நா. வானமாமலை அவர்களையே குறிப்பிடவேண்டும். பி. எல்.சாமியை தமிழக நாட்டுப்புறவியலின் தந்தை என்றே சொல்லலாம். இன்றும் கூட அவர்களின் ஆய்வுகள் மறுபதிப்புகள் வராமல், அரசு அமைப்புகளால் கவனிக்கபடாமல்தான் உள்ளன.

இத்தனை விரிவாக நான் உருவாக்கும் இச்சித்திரத்தில் கூறப்பட்டுள்ள தகவல்கள் எல்லாமே மிக அடிப்படையானவை. எவரும் எளிதாக உறுதிசெய்து கொள்ளக் கூடியவை. தமிழகத்தில் கடந்த ஐம்பதாண்டுக்காலத்தில் பண்பாட்டுக்கும் மொழிக்கும் பெரும் பங்களிப்பாற்றியவர்கள் அத்தனை பேருமே திராவிட இயக்கத்தால் புறக்கணிக்கப்பட்டவர்கள். இவர்கள் திராவிட இயக்கத்தின் பேரலையை மீறி, புகழோ பணமோ பெறாமல் தங்கள் சுய அர்ப்பணிப்பால் மட்டுமே தங்கள் பணியை ஆற்றியவர்கள். இவர்களை எல்லாம் நான் அங்கீகரித்து இவர்களின் நீட்சியாக என்னை நிறுத்திக்கொள்ள விழைகிறேன். ஆகவே தான் திராவிட இயக்கத்தை நிராகரிக்கிறேன்

Via jayamohan.in

:bash: why media is blowing up this in first page?

They expect the examination board to make a question paper as permanent one? And finally their suggestion looks like everyone should be provided 100marks.

http://dkn.dinakaran.com/pdf/2010/03/16/20100316a_001104005.jpg

DKN

^^ This is what I had been talking about in post #1561.
^^ I support a common entrance exam at a state level. The General exams are way too predictable with repeated questions. Even if the question paper turns out to be little trikky, parents and media make it a big deal and we have also seen bonus marks announced, or press releases saying that those questions will be liberally corrected.Students, Parents and media just do not want anything asked other than those 'important questions'.

The result of this attitude does not make the general exams qualified enough to be a platform to differentiate a brighter student from the crowd.

Below points are what I exactly had made in the above post few weeks back:

* This paper has to be liberally corrected.
* Bonus marks should be given for cerain questions.
* Some questions should be given full marks even if the student has attempted to answer.

What a shame of act this is????

Students, Parents and the media just do not try to think that the question paper is common across the state, and it just has to be seen that way. It is not tough only for their son. So, there is absolutely nothing to worry. If the student is really capable he will definitely get what he deserves.

Especially with no common entrance examination in place, the board exam should at least be a little difficult to reward really deserving students, and the question papers have to be tricky. And the Education department should condemn the act of media in this way.

If the student is really capable he will definitely get what he deserves.

This sums up. And another paper claims all the questions were from syllabus, no I wonder what is the big deal in not asking the repeated questions.

It has become a regular practice of late for the question paper setting teachers that the questions are all from the past question papers. This saves a lot of time and effort for the Q Setting Teachers and they take it easy.

Obsession to get centum or closer to that in every sybject including Languages is killing the real quality and sets off unhealthy competition and malpractices too.

Percentile system may be the correct method but Computer data base and MIS Depts should be efficient.

Examns have become a farce and the Brainy Kids generally lose out in this system.

^^
The real culprits are Parents and Media. Their combined onslaught will force Govt. to yield...

http://www.hindu.com/2010/03/17/stories/2010031751810500.htm

CHENNAI: Airtel network infrastructure has crossed the mark of 10,000 cellular sites (towers) in Tamil Nadu. :cheers:

Addressing a press conference, Airtel CEO Rajiv Rajagopal said the network now covered about 97 per cent of the rural population in the State even as aggregate subscriber base has crossed 11 million users. Tamil Nadu ranks among the top three markets for the service provider in terms of subscriber numbers, coverage area and quality of service. :cheers::cheers::cheers:

In terms of capability, the network could support a peak load of 6,000 text messages a second on an almost real time basis. “Our feedback suggests that customers are no longer complaining about text messaging hiccups during festive occasions,” Mr. Rajagopal said.

The network capability, taken along with a strong distribution retail chain of 1.20 lakh outlets, represents a 360 degree effort in raising customer experience, he said.

For its GPRS users, Airtel has rolled out EDGE (enhanced data system) network in 1,600 towns, said R. Anantharaman, Airtel COO.

Airtel would increasingly focus on innovative product offerings and increase community outreach engagements, Mr. Rajagopal said.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Tamil-signboards-made-must-traders-unhappy/articleshow/5688427.cms

CHENNAI: Language politics is back in play with the DMK-led Chennai Corporation council trying to gain mileage by asking all shops and establishments to display their names in Tamil in a large font.
The council on Monday brought out the rule book to underline the Tamil Nadu Shops and Establishment Rules (1948), which directs traders to display the store name in Tamil prominently, followed by English, and then any other language of choice.

Currently, most shops display the name in English, with many opting to have the Tamil version in a much smaller font. Corporation commissioner Rajesh Lakhoni said the new proposal was to have the name in Tamil displayed prominently and on top of the signboard.

This is the second time the Corporation is throwing the rule book at traders when it comes to signboards. The proposal, first introduced by the DMK-led council in its previous regime between 1996 and 2001, has been dubbed impractical and unnecessary by traders and businessmen.
Some are concerned about its impact on sales.

“We display our name in Tamil in a smaller font as our clientele is primarily English-speaking,” said a senior manager with a Chennai-based retail clothing brand. Once the signboard is repainted as per the new specifications, he is doubtful if the brand will draw customers. “Most of us are more comfortable with English than Tamil. Also, people from other parts are settling down in the city. How will a local brand like ours appeal to outsiders if our outlets have to display boards in Tamil?” he asked.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Tamil-Nadu-eyes-700-more-medical-seats-in-govt-run-colleges/articleshow/5692148.cms

CHENNAI: Here is good news for medical aspirants. Tamil Nadu is working on increasing MBBS seats by a whopping 700 in the government colleges. The state has already got sanction for 270 more post-graduate medical seats.

The directorate of medical education is expecting sanction from the Medical Council of India to admit 100 students each in two new colleges in Tiruvarur and Villupuram the coming academic year. Also in the pipeline is a detailed proposal demanding increase in the number of seats in the existing colleges.

“We have 15 government medical colleges and we want to increase the medical seats in these colleges. For instance, in the Madras and Madurai Medical colleges we want to increase the seats from 165 to 265. In Chengalpet Medical College, we want to increase seats from 50 to 150. In other colleges we’re looking at hiking seats from 100 to 150. This is based on parameters including bed strength, patient-doctor ratio and specialties,” says director of medical education Dr S Vinayagam.

The directorate until last year offered 1,483 of the 1,745 medical seats in 15 medical colleges to students residing in Tamil Nadu during the single window counselling, leaving the remaining 15% to the all India quota. If the MCI approves two new medical colleges, the seats will go up to 1,653 in June. The selection committee, which is responsible for admitting students, hopes to add another 500 seats during the second phase of counselling.

In the self-financing colleges category, the number of colleges is expected to go up by at least one, which will increase the number of seats by another 85 from the existing 285.

What seems to have impressed doctors and academicians is that there has been an increase in the post-graduate medical seats. Of the 270 post-graduate (degree, diploma and super specialty) seats, the state selection committee will display 135 seats leaving 50% to the all India quota. In February, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved the health ministry’s proposal to add more post-graduate seats in 148 state run medical colleges. Tamil Nadu sent its proposal and was sanctioned 270 seats. “Till now, we have had only 998 post-graduate seats. We have increased seats in fields like general surgery, general medicine, neurology, neurosurgery, cardiothoracic surgery and neonatology,” said health secretary VK Subburaj.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Tamil-signboards-made-must-traders-unhappy/articleshow/5688427.cms

CHENNAI: Language politics is back in play with the DMK-led Chennai Corporation council trying to gain mileage by asking all shops and establishments to display their names in Tamil in a large font.
The council on Monday brought out the rule book to underline the Tamil Nadu Shops and Establishment Rules (1948), which directs traders to display the store name in Tamil prominently, followed by English, and then any other language of choice.

Currently, most shops display the name in English, with many opting to have the Tamil version in a much smaller font. Corporation commissioner Rajesh Lakhoni said the new proposal was to have the name in Tamil displayed prominently and on top of the signboard.

This is the second time the Corporation is throwing the rule book at traders when it comes to signboards. The proposal, first introduced by the DMK-led council in its previous regime between 1996 and 2001, has been dubbed impractical and unnecessary by traders and businessmen.
Some are concerned about its impact on sales.

“We display our name in Tamil in a smaller font as our clientele is primarily English-speaking,” said a senior manager with a Chennai-based retail clothing brand. Once the signboard is repainted as per the new specifications, he is doubtful if the brand will draw customers. “Most of us are more comfortable with English than Tamil. Also, people from other parts are settling down in the city. How will a local brand like ours appeal to outsiders if our outlets have to display boards in Tamil?” he asked.

:sleepy:Tamizha Valarkarangrangranglaama!!!!:blahblah:

:sleepy:Tamizha Valarkarangrangranglaama!!!!:blahblah:

nothing wrong in it..

nothing wrong in it..


Exactly., Nothing wrong in it. Why not tamil be prominent in the sign boards??
Any how,it doesnt say to remove english.

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Chennai: Tamil Nadu is not just the largest producer of eggs—it’s also one of its largest consumers. An average Tamil Nadu resident eats nearly 100 eggs a year, against the national average of 42, according to National Egg Co-ordination Committee. However, nutritionists say it is far below the minimum requirement of 180 eggs a year.
The ‘Sunday ho ya Monday, roz khao ande’ line has clearly not caught on with even egg-friendly states, say NECC officials. The committee, unlike its counterparts abroad, has not done any massive promotional research. However, statistics show the average annual consumption of egg in Japan is 346 per person; in China it is 312 eggs per year; and in Mexico it is 304 a year. India contributes 3.6% of global egg production — 61 million tonnes with an annual growth rate of 5% to 8%. India has the lowest cost of egg production in the world (2.55 US cents per egg). Yet India’s egg consumption has not increased in the last several years despite demand because of government programmes like the noon-meal scheme.
At present, the average consumption of eggs in major cities is 170 eggs, 40 in smaller cities, 20 in rural areas and just 5 in undeveloped rural areas. “Eggs are a crucial part of breakfast, lunch and dinner for people across the globe. Here, we have not done promotions for egg like the way others have. That is probably one reason why egg consumption here is low. Egg, like the greens, is cheap and healthy. Considering 20% of our population is strictly vegetarian, we are now promoting the slogan that egg, like milk, is also vegetarian,” says NECC zonal chairman P Selvaraj. Outbreak of epidemics such as avian flu had brought down egg consumption rapidly.
Nutritionists and paediatricians say there is no direct alternative to an egg. “It’s a lot of nutrition bundled into a small meal. I recommend to my clients to go to work with an egg,” says nutritionist Jyotsna R.

nothing wrong in it..

At present, the Boards are larger in English Language and smaller in Tamil. But if this new rule comes up it will be the other way round. Since most of our cities are cosmopolitan, it will be easier if Name boards are more prominent in a language that is understood by both locals and outsiders l. For people knowing the local language it does not matter, but for others it will be difficult if the English names are not visible clearly. This is just a matter of convenience.

^^ All those folks talking about how Chennai is cosmopolitan and it is better to have English prominently should visit bigger and supposedly more cosmolitan cities such as Delhi and Bombay where a lot of buses have signs in Hindi only and what is more even the numbers are displayed in Hindi numerals.

I used to think why not some English because these cities attract a large number of visitors from elsewhere in India and abroad. Who cares?

In Chennai, there is the option of English.

^^

Hindi has special status, so only if marathi, tamil and kannada are requested to write in equal to english font size it is a big mistake in India. :lol:

And TOI has cooked the news very well! The title is misleading, Chennai corporation has requested to use equal font size for both english and Tamil, but traders have taken advantage to write tamil with very very small size and english with very very big size. It is not only in Chennai, even small villages has got this way to keep their name boards.

It is high time GoTN gives final description for font size to be used for name boards including the advertisements and make it as rule. Mayilae mayilae na iraku podathu.

:lol::lol: good idea

http://dkn.dinakaran.com/pdf/2010/03/19/20100319e_013101009.jpg
http://dkn.dinakaran.com/pdf/2010/03/19/20100319e_013101013.jpg

DKN

It's a bad idea for governments to tell people how to run their business. If the shop owners want to keep their name tags in English it should be their choice. I hope they do have larger Tamil fonts but it should be out of their own choice, not because the government is forcing them to do it.

^^

If you give choice every one will be ready to travel in AC compartments with out following the rules what they pay for in non-AC. In same way if there is no rule, everyone will put their name boards in English only. Certain things cannot be achieved without enforcing rules.

And I don't know what is wrong in govt asking them to put the boards in Tamil "also" with same size! They are asking to do it in Chennai and not in New York.

^^

If you give choice every one will be ready to travel in AC compartments with out following the rules what they pay for in non-AC. In same way if there is no rule, everyone will put their name boards in English only. Certain things cannot be achieved without enforcing rules.

And I don't know what is wrong in govt asking them to put the boards in Tamil "also" with same size! They are asking to do it in Chennai and not in New York.

We are living in the state where even parents were called as "Mummy" & "Daddy" when we have beautiful word "Amma" & "Appa" which makes us warm. Please don't waste your time in arguing with these guys.

Stats says only 25% of the TN poupulation can read (fluent) English...

^^

Hindi has special status, so only if marathi, tamil and kannada are requested to write in equal to english font size it is a big mistake in India. :lol:

And TOI has cooked the news very well! The title is misleading, Chennai corporation has requested to use equal font size for both english and Tamil, but traders have taken advantage to write tamil with very very small size and english with very very big size. It is not only in Chennai, even small villages has got this way to keep their name boards.

It is high time GoTN gives final description for font size to be used for name boards including the advertisements and make it as rule. Mayilae mayilae na iraku podathu.

Hi Arul,

The article did not mention clearly that displays in English and Tamil should be of equal size. Maybe thats why I got this one messed up. I was not aware of what the rule book states!!!

We are living in the state where even parents were called as "Mummy" & "Daddy" when we have beautiful word "Amma" & "Appa" which makes us warm. Please don't waste your time in arguing with these guys.

Stats says only 25% of the TN poupulation can read (fluent) English...

Poor Tamil people! even they dont realise what a good repository of valuable things are there in Tamil. Simply falling prey to the gimmicks of outside cultures which is suffering now from its own doings.

It is my personal feeling may be shared by many people.

^^

If you give choice every one will be ready to travel in AC compartments with out following the rules what they pay for in non-AC. In same way if there is no rule, everyone will put their name boards in English only. Certain things cannot be achieved without enforcing rules.

And I don't know what is wrong in govt asking them to put the boards in Tamil "also" with same size! They are asking to do it in Chennai and not in New York.
Sir, everyone should have the right to travel in AC compartments if they are willing to pay for it. Similarly shop owners are paying for their business and they should be allowed to run their business as they see fit.

I am not against Tamil boards, let the shop owners have only tamil boards if that's what they want. What I oppose is governments telling people how to live their lives, run their business and so on. If the government wants to improve the Tamil, then they should do things like the recent 'Tamil Sangam', which was a great effort.

We are living in the state where even parents were called as "Mummy" & "Daddy" when we have beautiful word "Amma" & "Appa" which makes us warm. Please don't waste your time in arguing with these guys.

Do you know anything about me? Do you know how I talk with my parents. If you don't like my arguments either argue against it or ignore. Don't insult people with knowing squat about them.

Sir, everyone should have the right to travel in AC compartments if they are willing to pay for it. Similarly shop owners are paying for their business and they should be allowed to run their business as they see fit.

I am not against Tamil boards, let the shop owners have only tamil boards if that's what they want. What I oppose is governments telling people how to live their lives, run their business and so on. If the government wants to improve the Tamil, then they should do things like the recent 'Tamil Sangam', which was a great effort.



Do you know anything about me? Do you know how I talk with my parents. If you don't like my arguments either argue against it or ignore. Don't insult people with knowing squat about them.


60% of shops have their names ONLY written in Japanese in world cosmopolitan city like tokyo. why can't you people digest with boards in tamil this where only 10% are from outside from tamilnadu and hardly 1% foriegners.

Do you know anything about me? Do you know how I talk with my parents. If you don't like my arguments either argue against it or ignore. Don't insult people with knowing squat about them.

I never said you are following the same. Please read my comments once again.

COOL :cheers:

60% of shops have their names ONLY written in Japanese in world cosmopolitan city like tokyo. why can't you people digest with boards in tamil this where only 10% are from outside from tamilnadu and hardly 1% foriegners.

Nothing wrong in it but the question is,are they having such sign boards on their own or does the government forces them to have it.My Overall point is, I don't believe Tamil is in trouble or in decline and I don't believe a classical language that has survived for 3000 years is in need of government support to survive.

Kids these days do call their parents 'Mom and Dad', I don't know why, probably because of English channels, but that doesn't mean they don't respect Tamil or Tamil culture. And anyway this is just a phase, today its cool to call your parent in English tomorrow it would become the opposite. For example look at Tamil movie from the early 90s, there the heroine dislikes the hero and one day suddenly the hero speaks fluent English and she falls in love with him immediately :). But in today's movies Hero not only speaks Tamil, but often speaks Chennai Tamil :lol: and the heroine falls in love with him. This didn't happen because the government forced people to make such movies, but happened on its own. So let's have faith in our people and our culture, not try to force things on them.

I never said you are following the same. Please read my comments once again.

COOL

Sorry, since I was debating with him I thought you were referring to me.
My Apologies :cheers:

Sir, everyone should have the right to travel in AC compartments if they are willing to pay for it. Similarly shop owners are paying for their business and they should be allowed to run their business as they see fit.

I am not against Tamil boards, let the shop owners have only tamil boards if that's what they want. What I oppose is governments telling people how to live their lives, run their business and so on. If the government wants to improve the Tamil, then they should do things like the recent 'Tamil Sangam', which was a great effort.

Keeping a board for shops is a commercial one and it has to be viewed like tax description from the government, I don't know why it is compared with personal ones like how to run their business, what is the investment, how to live etc.,

I have already explained, if there is no rule now then by 2020, 100% we will see only english name boards in commercial streets and you cannot search language of state there. And there is a lot difference between this rule and about Tamil sangam in keeping the language!

Ok. let us have some statistics on no. of vehicles district wise:

Top 10 district in terms of total vehicle registered till 2009:

1 Chennai 2866974
2 Coimbatore 1204609
3 Salem 564184
4 Erode 497439
5 Madurai 456430
6 Thiruvallur 422338
7 Vellore 422338
8 Tiruchirappalli 410424
9 Namakkal 381212
10 Tiruppur 367295

Top 10 district in terms of total vehicle registered in 2008-09 alone:

1 Chennai 633404
2 Coimbatore* 173216
3 Vellore 69378
4 Thiruvallur 64899
5 Salem 42927
6 Erode 39906
7 Tiruchirappalli 37605
8 Madurai 36656
9 Namakkal 27372
10 Tirunelveli 27107

Top 10 districts in terms of total cars registered till 2009:

1 Chennai 467682
2 Coimbatore 121400
3 Salem 36285
4 Tiruchirappalli 25043
5 Erode 23611
6 Madurai 23009
7 Tiruppur 22302
8 Thiruvallur 22047
9 Vellore 19702
10 Tirunelveli 18113


Top 10 districts in terms of car registration in 2008-09 alone:

1 Chennai 77963
2 Coimbatore* 15632
3 Thiruvallur 4358
4 Madurai 3521
5 Erode 2856
6 Salem 2742
7 Tiruchirappalli 2571
8 Tirunelveli 2486
9 Kanyakumari 1874
10 Vellore 1831

*Includes Tiruppur also

http://www.tn.gov.in/

I am having a Dream of Having SAE Society of Automobile Engineers in line of JapanseSAE and koreans..We need to have the Technical journals not only IT but also in the field of Automobile ,Medicine - Siddha Will be very valuable...But there should be no compromise on the Quality wise..then we will put tamil on the World map..No opf patents frpm TN should Cross 10K should be the leading in filing Patents in the country..by 2015..AD

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60% of shops have their names ONLY written in Japanese in world cosmopolitan city like tokyo. why can't you people digest with boards in tamil this where only 10% are from outside from tamilnadu and hardly 1% foriegners.

Japan is not a great standard for a cosmopolitan city. Why not leave it to the private enterprise to decide the language and font? They know their clientele best and a shopkeeper selling kumudam,kalki kinda stuff would put Tamil boards and one selling Business India, Financial Times might prefer to put it in English.

Why does Govt has to poke its nose in every aspect, when it cannot even provide proper drainage, roads, electricity and other basic infrastructure stuff. If you fail to deliver on these, then such Govts turn parochial to fool the vote bank by whipping up emotions.

If Japan is not cosmopolitan in nature then I think the best example would be Paris. Even when you enter champs elysees which is one of the costliest streets in Europe, flooded by foreigners, most of the shops is written only in French. Labeling and branding is important and comes under Government regulation. Goverment is not objecting the usage of English whereas it is requesting to adopt Tamil also in their name board. There is nothing wrong in adopting Tamil in name board.

Another gud example is naming tamil movies in Tamil. When series of films were named in English. once govt said tax exemption for films named in Tamil. After that no one named in English. If govt annunces similar benefit then businessmen will tell lot of business becz of it Tamil names. All are business minded fellows.

Note : But I am totally against tax benefits to films.

Having adopted the 2 Language formula, TN Govt has been using both Tamil & English in all Public sign boards (official stand). But due to the laxity at the lower level, English is missed out or misspelt due to ignorance.

In Private Boards, it is better if the business community displays both English and Tamil version. May be Tamil Version can be smaller. The very purpose of sign board is to communicate and local language is a must.

I have suffered in North and East India where they display only in the local language and not in English. The worst case in the Numbers in local language. Even in Delhi, Bus Numbers are displayed in Hindi Numbers and not in Arabic nemerals.

Another major point according to me is that many firms do not display their Door Numbers in the boards facing the street. For a new comer to a city, finding the address becomes very difficult as he does not know which building has what Number.

The recent Door Nos change by Chennai Corporation - Odd in one side and Even in opp side is a better method. But without proper advertising, it becomes more difficult.

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/chennai/state-seeks-300-train-berths-tamil-summit-554

Chennai, March 19: The state government has written to the commercial department of Southern Railway to allot over 300 daily berths on trains to meet the demand of participants for the World Classical Tamil conference to be held in Coimbatore from June 22-27, railway sources have said.
Already trains, including Cheran, Kovai, Nilgiris and Intercity, are running with huge waitlist and the demand by the state government is likely to increase the demand for rail tickets, they hinted.
According to a senior railway official, more than 150 special trains are likely to be operated from various cities to Coimbatore.
“Discussions regarding the train operations and schedule have already commenced and the list of special trains for the conference will soon be announced,” Southern Railway spokesperson V.J. Accama said.
Besides improving the number of ticket counters, railways would also set up exclusive information kiosks in Chennai and Coimbatore. The railway top brass have already issued instructions to field officials to improve basic amenities like drinking water and toilet facilities, the official said.
Recently, Southern Railway general manager Deepak Krishan inspected the Coimbatore railway junction.

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/chennai/free-iodised-salt-during-pregnancy-536

Chennai, March 19: The state government has proposed a plan to provide free iodised salt to women during pregnancy. According to the budget note, iodised salt will be provided through ration shops. This programme will be implemented jointly by the state salt corporation and the civil supplies and consumer protection department. Sources in the Tamil Nadu salt corporation said that the scheme was in a nascent stage.

http://www.hindu.com/2010/03/20/stories/2010032050840200.htm

CHENNAI: About 1.1 lakh students from India took up various programmes in the U.S. last year, which is more than the number of students from China, Europe and Canada, said Mathew Petitt, Vice-Consul, US Consulate General in Chennai.

He said this while responding to queries from students and professionals planning to study in the U.S., at an interactive session on ‘Higher Education in the United States and Student Visas', organised by the United States India Educational Foundation (USIEF), here on Thursday.

He clarified that visa procedures for the U.S. continued to be as stringent as they were and that there was no drastic increase or decline in the number of visa applications received by the embassy after the recent attacks on Indians in Australia. “Around 2.5 lakh visas were issued last year, and Chennai is one of the biggest centres for us,” said Mr. Petitt.

He asked the gathering not to plan a prepared text or anything of that sort while attending the visa interview.

The applicants should rather be relaxed, confident and honest while meeting the officials. “I-20 is the most important document we are looking for, and never lie before the officials or you would be banned.”

Christopher Johnson, Assistant Dean, Fairfield University, Connecticut, U.S.A. in his presentation on choosing the right university, asked students not to get carried away by the ranking that independent organisations bring out. “There is no official nationally recognised government scheme and neither an official ranking of the U.S. colleges. Be careful about making your decision based on a college's ranking as it is done by private institutions who want to sell their college,” said Mr. Johnson. “Choose well as not all colleges are the same, including checking if the college has the basic regional accreditation.”

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/chennai/unrest-hits-tn-college-campuses-564

Madurai, March 19: Several college campuses across Tamil Nadu seem bogged down by unrest of umpteen kinds, some precipitated by agitated students and others by teachers seeking better salaries and working conditions.
If some of the Chennai campuses had turned battlefields last month with students grouping into regional and linguistic divides and launching into bloody clashes, similar animosity is palpable among the inmates of several institutions elsewhere in the state too. The ‘war’ between the students of Tamil Nadu and their campus-mates from Kerala at a private polytechnic in Nagercoil, in which about 40 men were reportedly hurt on Tuesday, is a case in pointer.
The polytechnic clash started with a second-year student getting bullied and hit by a group of Kerala youth. The violence spread quickly through the campus and surroundings. The rampaging students also damaged the college property. “Hostility on regional lines has been brewing for sometime, fuelled by vested interests. It's sad that students fall pretty to such evil machinations and ruin their future,” a lecturer said on condition of anonymity.
Hostel food had become the ammunition for conflict between ‘native’ students and inmates from north India at a Chennai engineering college a couple of months back. “All this could mean that intolerance is growing among the native students fearing that those from other states could rob them of their jobs and other opportunities. They fail to see that the government has failed in its duty to create enough opportunities,” says R.Stalin, state joint secretary of the Students Federation of India (SFI).
He also blames it on the college managements for failing create a congenial academic atmosphere by nurturing unity among students from varying background. Get-togethers and culturals are great bonders. "Some managements even resort to divide and rule policy. They instigate the students on regional and linguistic lines only to cover up their own faults," he alleged.

If Japan is not cosmopolitan in nature then I think the best example would be Paris. Even when you enter champs elysees which is one of the costliest streets in Europe, flooded by foreigners, most of the shops is written only in French. Labeling and branding is important and comes under Government regulation. Goverment is not objecting the usage of English whereas it is requesting to adopt Tamil also in their name board. There is nothing wrong in adopting Tamil in name board.

People visit France Paris for its amazing buildings, architecture, and exquisite cuisine (by european palate). However the French people are considered one of the rudest because of their language fanaticism bottled by deep rooted fear of English. If you ever do the mistake of talking in English in France, they rudely tell you they dont understand or even yell at you unlike other places where they might just excuse themselves. I have experienced this.
And yes they have language cops walking down the streets with tapes measuring the font size.

Its a language fanatic place and I hope Chennai does not fall that low. Unlike Paris, Chennai cannot boast of anything that Paris has.
Chennai already lacks a reputation of cosmopolitan place, and in this new Web 2.0 world where English has become a lingua france, lets not slowly covertly begin a new fight with another language.

I bet if you ask anyone on the street or even a slum dweller, they would rather prefer city politicians clean up the place, provide better infrastructure than go down this way to please an old aging Neanderthal thata. Given a choice everyone of the even slumdwellers would prefer to send their wards to a English medium school than a Tamil or any vernacular one.

The no of members for the Electoral college will depend on the population of any region or state.But with increased awareness TN will See Decline in the growth rate due to adaptation of One child one family.

It is very welcome step..

Whether we will loose our representation in the loksabha..I need some clarity on this...

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/South-Indian-population-to-decline-Experts/articleshow/18095493.cms

Regards

stallion

^^
I believe US follows such a system were the change the electoral college based on population every decade or so, it wouldn't be that easy to do in India. There would be strong opposition from the states that are likely to lose out. And most governments would stay away from doing something that controversial.

Even during the recent delimitation they changed the no. of seats only within states, not between states.

Ok. let us have some statistics on no. of vehicles district wise:

Top 10 district in terms of total vehicle registered till 2009:

1 Chennai 2866974
2 Coimbatore 1204609
3 Salem 564184
4 Erode 497439
5 Madurai 456430
6 Thiruvallur 422338
7 Vellore 422338
8 Tiruchirappalli 410424
9 Namakkal 381212
10 Tiruppur 367295

http://www.tn.gov.in/

I have a question on this. Namakkal and Salem are suppose to top the chart since they are home to Lorry transport in TN. I'm surprised to see Erode, Vellore above Namakkal here...

I have a question on this. Namakkal and Salem are suppose to top the chart since they are home to Lorry transport in TN. I'm surprised to see Erode, Vellore above Namakkal here...

It becasue lot vehicles run by namakkal owners are registered in KA - series..
you can check on no of lorries that run on Nammakal..during the last kaveri riots lot of people from TN settled in mysore and its periphery lost their property..Lot of lives saved after arrival of punjab regiment in KA..

http://www.hindu.com/2010/03/22/stories/2010032262580600.htm

MADURAI: The process to have a common timeframe for all universities in Tamil Nadu for conducting semester examinations and publication of results has been initiated.

A meeting of the Controllers of Examinations of all State universities was convened on March 17 by the Principal Secretary of the Higher Education Department, K. Ganesan, at which the proposal for holding the examinations and declaring results within a specific timeframe was discussed.

Official sources told The Hindu on Sunday that the Controllers of Examinations expressed their suggestions on the government's plan for bringing some uniformity in time schedule among universities in conducting the undergraduate/postgraduate degree semester examinations and publishing the results without delay.

When contacted, Mr. Ganesan said the idea was to reduce the time lag in examination schedule for the benefit of students.

“The difficulties and suggestions were discussed at the meeting and the issue will be placed before the Tamil Nadu State Council for Higher Education.” According to him, the universities are not being forced to have common examination dates but to have a particular timeframe within which they would conduct the semester examinations and publish the results. “The proposed move will be of benefit for students who want to go for higher studies or joining jobs. The waiting time can be reduced.” M. Thirumalai, Controller of Examinations (in-charge), Madurai Kamaraj University, who attended the meeting in Chennai, said some Controllers expressed the common hardship of finding teachers for paper evaluation. “Sufficient teachers for correcting the answer scripts are not available these days. Universities are managing the process with difficulty.” He said the Higher Education Secretary asked universities to be swift in both examination process and results to avoid hardships for students. It was decided to have another round of consultation with principals and college managements. “Some teachers are not willing to come for paper valuation citing holidays as a reason. In such a case, universities are finding it tough to complete the process on time,” he said.

Now common exam, common syllabus, common system.

The why to make so many universities and again going for common of every thing

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/-TN-among-top-fake-currency-hubs/articleshow/5710062.cms

NEW DELHI: Fake currency smugglers have now spread their wings. Intelligence agencies have nabbed a large number of couriers with fake Indian currency notes (FICN) and drug parcels in West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu than the traditionally preferred J&K and Rajasthan corridor.

States like Maharashtra, UP, Assam and Chhattisgarh are also not lagging behind in the number of arrests.Seizures are generally considered a very small fraction of the actual smuggling, accounting for less than 10%. According to figures compiled by the government, West Bengal couriers were caught with over Rs 60 lakh, the highest FICN seizure among all states between July and December 2009.

Andhra Pradesh stood second with seizure of Rs 50 lakh. The other substantial FICN seizure was made in Punjab (Rs 49 lakh), Maharashtra (Rs 33 lakh), UP (Rs 32 lakh), TN (Rs 25 lakh), Assam (Rs 20 lakh), Gujarat (Rs 12 lakh) and Chhattisgarh (Rs 9 lakh).

Intelligence agencies have often found these couriers carrying arms and explosives such as high-grade RDX along with FICN consignments at the behest of terror masterminds in Pakistan. The couriers also act as feeder to various terror sleeper cells in the country as revealed during investigations in many of these cases.

A high-level committee headed by the home secretary and comprising officials of central agencies and police officials constantly monitor these issues and draw strategies to counter the rising menace. Similar monitoring bodies have also been set up in states comprising of police and intelligence officials.

Breakfast for Coimbatore Corporation school students: :applause::applause:



ஏழை மாணவர்களுக்கு காலை டிபன் ரெடி ; கோவை மாநகராட்சி பளீச் திட்டம் அறிவிப்பு
மார்ச் 22,2010,13:58 IST


கோவை: தமிழகத்தில் இலவசத்திற்கு பஞ்சம் இருக்காது என்பதை நிரூபிக்கும் வகையில் இந்தியாவிலேயே முன்னோடி திட்டமாக கோவை மாநகராட்சிக்கு உட்பட்ட பள்ளிகளில் ஏழை மாணவ, மாணவிகளுக்கு காலை சிற்றுண்டி வழங்கிட முடிவு செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளது. தமிழகத்தில் காமராஜர் காலத்தில் மதிய உணவு திட்டம் கொண்டு வரப்பட்டு எம்.ஜி.ஆர்., கருணாநிதி, ஜெ., ஆகியோர் ஆட்சி காலத்தில் போஷாக்கான உணவுடன் கவர்ச்சியும் இணைந்த முட்டை கீரை என பல வடிவங்கள் பெற்றது. சத்துணவு திட்டத்தின் கீழ் தமிழகத்தில் கோடிக்கணக்கான மாணவ , மாணவிகள் மதிய உணவு உட்கொண்டு தங்களது படிப்பை தொடர்ந்து வருகின்றனர்.



இந்த தருணத்தில் புதுமையான திட்டத்தை கோவை மாநகராட்சி அறிவித்துள்ளது. இன்றைய பட்ஜெட்டில் மாநகராட்சி நிர்வாகத்தின் கீழ் செயல்படும் பள்ளிகளில் பயிலும் மாணவ, மாணவிகளுக்கு காலை சிற்றுண்டி வழங்கும் திட்டம் அறிவிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. இந்த திட்டத்திற்கு ரூ. கோடி ஒதுக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. இன்று மேயர் வெங்கடாசலம் தலைமையில் நடந்த கூட்டத்தில் தாக்கலான பட்ஜெட்டில் இந்த அறிவிப்பு வெளியானதும் ஆளும் தி.மு.க., மற்றும் காங்கிரஸ் கவுன்சிலர்கள் கரவொலி எழுப்பி வரவேற்றனர்.

கமிஷன் ஆய்வுக்கு பின்னர் முடிவு : கோவை மாநகராட்சி கல்விக்குழுவால் பரிந்துரை செய்யப்பட்டு பின்னர் ஆய்வு நடத்த ஓரு குழு அமைக்க கமிஷனர் அன்சுல் மிஸ்ரா உத்தரவிட்டார். இந்த ஆய்வு குழு படி தாக்கல் செய்த அறிக்கையில் ; கோவையில் ஏழை மாணவர்கள் தான் மாநகராட்சி பள்ளியில் படிக்கின்றனர். இவர்கள் வறுமை காரணமாக காலை உணவு கிடைக்காத போது பள்ளிக்கு செல்ல வேண்டுமா என்று எண்ணத்தோன்றும். எனவே அவர்களுக்கு இந்த பிரச்னை இருக்கக்கூடாது என்றும் , இதற்கு காலை சிற்றுண்டி வழங்கினால் நலம் என தெரிவித்தது. இதன்படி மாணவ, மாணவிகளின் உடல் நலன் மற்றும் கல்வி அறிவை கருத்தில் கொண்டும் இந்த திட்டம் உருவாக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது என்றார் மாநகராட்சி அதிகாரி ஒருவர்.

கோவை மாநகராட்சிக்குட்பட்ட 85 பள்ளிகளில் முதற்கட்டமாக ரூ. 2 கோடி ஒதுக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. எந்த வகையான உணவுகள் வழங்கலாம் என்பது குறித்து அதிகாரிகள் ஆலோசித்து முடிவு செய்வர். இந்த திட்டத்தில் 33 ஆயிரம் பேர் பயன்பெறுவர். இந்த காலை சிற்றுண்டி திட்டம் இந்தியாவிலேயே இல்லாத திட்டம் என்பதால் பிற மாநிலங்களிலும், தமிழகத்தில் பிற மாநகராட்சிகளும் இந்த புதிய திட்டத்தை பின் பற்றும் என எதிர்பார்க்கப்படுகிறது.

http://www.dinamalar.com/topnewsdetail.asp?news_id=1841

^^

All the best for Coimbatore Urban Area to keep the students in schools atleast till Higher secondary. Surely another boost to achieve 100% education.

மதுரை : படுவேகத்தில் டூவீலர்களை ஓட்டுவோருக்கு நேற்று முன் தினம் மதுரையில் நடந்த விபத்து ஒரு பாடம்.

இப்போதெல்லாம், டூவீலரை 'ஸ்டார்ட்' செய்து விட்டாலே, பலருக்கு ராக்கெட்டில் பறக்கும் நினைப்பு வந்து விடுகிறது. 'கட்' அடித்து, பஸ்களுக்கு இடையேயும், பிளாட் பாரத்திற்கு மேலேயும் பாய்ந்து சென்று, மற்றவர்களை கவர அல்லது மிரட்ட நினைக்கின்றனர். 30 வயதுக்கு உட்பட்ட இளைஞர்கள் தான், இதை சாகசமாக நினைத்து, இப்படி ஓட்டுகின்றனர்.'பெண்கள் நம்மை பார்க்க வேண்டும். ஹீரோவாக நினைக்க வேண்டும்' என்பது இந்த இளைஞர்களின் எதிர்பார்ப்பு. அதிலும், வாகனத்தின் பின்னால் காதலி அமர்ந்தி ருந் தால், இளைஞர்களுக்கு இன்னும் கொஞ்சம் வீரம் 'பொத்துக்கொண்டு' வந்து விடும். வண்டியின் வேகம் அதிகரிக்கும். தரையில் படுமாறு வண்டியை சாய்த்து, ரொம்ப அதிகமாகவே 'கட்' அடித்து, ஹீரோத்தனத்தை வெளிப்படுத்துவர்.எப்போதுமே இந்த 'ஹீரோத்தனம்' வெற்றி பெறாது என்பதை இவர்கள் புரிந்து கொள்வதில்லை. சில நேரங்களில் விபத்துகளுக்கு 'ஓவர் ஸ்பீடு' காரணமாகி, வாழ்க்கையையே தொலைக்க வேண்டி வரும் என நினைப்பதில்லை.

இதற்கு உதாரணம், நேற்று முன் தினம் மாலை மதுரை பை-பாஸ் ரோட்டில் நடந்த விபத்து.ஆரப்பாளையத்தில் இருந்து ஒரு அரசு டவுன் பஸ், திருமங்கலத்திற்கு புறப்பட்டது. பை-பாஸ் ரோடு ராம் நகர் காலனி பஸ் ஸ்டாப்பில் நின்று கொண்டு இருந்தது. அப்போது அதே திசையில் ஒரு டூவீலரில் இருவர் (ஹெல்மெட் அணியவில்லை), படுவேகத்தில் பறந்து வந்தனர். பஸ்சை முந்த நினைத்த பைக்கை ஓட்டி வந்தவர், பஸ்சிற்கும் ரோடு மீடியனுக்கும் இடையே புக முயன்றார்.இவர் வருவதை எதிர்பாராத டிரைவர், பஸ்சை லேசாக நகர்த்தினார். அவ்வளவு தான், வந்த வேகத்தில் பஸ்சின் பின்பக்க ஓரத்தில் பைக்காரர் மோதி, கீழே உருண்டார். 'ஐயோ, அம்மா' என கத்தியபடி மயங்கினார். முழங்காலுக்கு கீழ், இடது கால் எலும்பு உடைந்து கால் வளைந்தது. பைக்கின் பின்னால் அமர்ந்திருந்தவரும் கீழே விழுந்து, எழுந்தார். அதிர்ஷ்டவசமாக அவருக்கு காயம் இல்லை. இருப்பினும், அவரால் எழுந்து, பைக் ஓட்டி வந்தவரை தூக்க முடியவில்லை.

ஏனென்றால் பரிதாபம்... அவர் கால்கள் ஊனமுற்றவர். அவரது ஊன்றுகோல்கள் விழுந்து கிடந்தன. பைக்கின் பின்னால் அமர வைத்து, ஓட்டி வந்தவரை தன்னால் காப்பாற்ற முடியவில்லையே என்ற ஆதங்கத்தில், ரோட்டில் அமர்ந்தபடி, தரையை அடித்து, அடித்து அழுதுகொண்டு இருந்தார். பார்த்தவர்கள் கண்கள் கலங்கின. அங்கிருந்தவர்கள், விபத்தில் சிக்கியவரை, மருத்துவமனைக்கு அனுப்பி வைத்தனர். கால்களை இழந்தவரை அமர வைத்து ஓட்டும்போது கூட, உடல் உறுப்புகளின் அருமை தெரியாமல் இருந்திருக்கிறாரே அந்த இளைஞர் என்பது தான் கொடுமையிலும் கொடுமை. இளைஞர்களே... பைக்கின் வேகத்தை 'முறுக்கும்' முன், 'இந்த வேகம் தேவையா' என சிந்தியுங்கள். உங்களை நம்பி பெற்றோர், உடன்பிறந்தோர், மனைவி, குழந்தைகள் உள்ளனர் என்பதை

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/jobs/280000-a-year-job-offer-for-Chennai-patent-holder/articleshow/5663283.cms

CHENNAI: Downturn or upturn, US corporations pick the best of young Indians. R. Shivaraman, a nanotechnology research scholar here, has been hired by hardware manufacturer Seagate Technology at an annual pay packet of $280,000 (Rs.1.4 crore).

Shivaraman holds an Indian patent jointly with C. Gopalakrishnan, who like him is also with the Nanotechnology Research Centre at the SRM University, for an innovation that enables a hard drive to hold a large amount of data - 30 terabyte (TB) - as against the current storage capacity of 500 gigabyte. :banana::banana::banana::banana::cheers::cheers::cheers::cheers::cheers:

"Patent under the US law is awaited," Shivaraman told IANS, talking about his innovative "polymer templated lithography process which allows fabrication of patterned magnetic media with density of around 30 TB".

According to him, the technology for ultra-high data storage is already available and his innovation scores over others in the time taken to fabricate the hard drives.

"I brought an engineering solution to the problem. Using our technology one can make eight hard drives in a minute," he said.

Shivaraman plans to join Seagate in December by which time he will get his doctorate in nanotechnology.

George,
Thats a disturbing photo.
Can you edit your post and put some translation?

Rgds

George,
Thats a disturbing photo.
Can you edit your post and put some translation?

Rgds

Yes George let us avoid disturbing photos please.

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friends I am not able to give you translation because I am not well in english...
can anybody give him a simple translation...?

http://www.hindu.com/2010/03/24/stories/2010032461020700.htm

Influence of Dravidian culture, particularly Keralite culture, is abundantly manifest in architecture, social and religious practices

TIRUCHI: There are striking similarities between the South Indian Mayan culture and the Maayan culture of Mexico, according to eminent Historian, S. Padmanabhan, General Secretary of Kanyakumari Historical and Cultural Centre.

The influence of Dravidian culture, particularly Keralite culture, is abundantly manifest in architecture, social and religious practices as well as domestic equipment and even personal style of the native people of Mexico known as Maayan, Dr. Padmanabhan said, delivering the G. Venkatasubramaniam Memorial endowment lecture at the Department of History, National College, recently.

‘Padala loga'

The ‘padala loga' ruled by Mahabali as described in the Puranas is today's Mexico. The worship of Siva, Naga, Panchaboothas and Nadukal (a stone dedicated to a warrior) is common in Mexico.Sivalingams are found in the Museum as well as many places in the city of Mexico. A heal of Sivalingams is found near the Mexical Pyramid, one of the seven wonders of the World, Dr. Padmanabhan said, citing these finds as credible evidence to support his averment based on his extensive field explorations in Mexico.

Producing pictures of pyramids erected by Mayan in Thikkodi in Kerala and Kanyakumari district, he said they closely resemble the pictures of Mayaan pyramids dedicated to Sun and Panchaboothas in Mexico. The striking similarity is captivating and convincing.

The ruins of a thousand pillar mandapam stand testimony to the influence of Dravidian architecture, he said. The image in Kerala depicting the story of Mahabali has a perfect match in Mexico. Except the style of drawing, every thing was the same.

The portrayal of Vamana and Mahabali is apparent. Other Mexican images that are quite similar to the Dravidian images include the depiction of Lord Vishnu with the conch and chakra, the hand mudras of Indian dances, Lord Vinayaka, Lord Siva, Lord Anjaneya and a folk deity. The ananda sayanam of Vishnu is a fascinating piece of stunning similarity which will surely convince even sceptics, Dr. Padmanabhan said.

Personal styles

He said he had also found similarities in a few personal styles of Indian and Mexical women such as plait hair style, elongated earlobes caused by the wearing of ear rings, and decoration of the plait with flowers.

The physical features of Mexicans also closely resemble the Keralites.

Further, the word ‘chackla' in Maayan language refers to the force centres of the body similar to the chakras in Indian tradition. ‘Kultanlini' in Maayan language that refers to the power of God within man which is controlled by breaths is similar to ‘Kundalini.'

In the light of the very obvious connection between the South Indian and Mexican cultures clearly brought out by the formidable evidence, there is an imminent need to pursue historical research more vigorously from a different angle, to assess the contribution of Mayan and unravel the mysteries of the submerged Kumari continent, Dr. Padmanabhan said.

The Principal K. Anbarasu delivered the presidential address. S. Kaliasam, Department Head, and R. Kalaikovan, Rajamanickanar Centre for Historical Studies also addressed the lecture session.

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friends I am not able to give you translation because I am not well in english...
can anybody give him a simple translation...?

What it says is...

Nowadays two-wheeler drivers are carried away and want to enjoy the thrill of driving particularly a kinda stunt driving like driving rashly, cutting closely etc. This results in accidents like the one that happened yesterday wherein a differently-abled person hurt badly and his support stick was thrown off.:ohno:

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/chennai/take-heart-youth-saved-jiffy-577

March 23: In a record of sorts, two heart transplants were performed at the Frontier Lifeline hospital in the city within a span of five hours on Friday night.
Four teams of surgeons, two to harvest the organs and two to perform the transplant surgeries on two young patients, worked
into the early hours of the morning to make the feat possible. :cheers::cheers:
The two recipients, a 22-year-old food technology engineer and a 32-year-old sound engineer, both diagnosed with end stage heart disease, had been waiting for surgery for over three months now. When the hospital received two calls on Thursday night — one from Apollo hospital and one from the General Hospital — about the availability of the cadaver organs, the four transplant teams sprung into action.
The whole process ran like clockwork, thanks to a team of traffic cops coordinated by additional commissioner of police, Mr Ravi, who ensured that both hearts reached FLL in less than 30 minutes. The two brain-dead donors, aged 26 and 39, were both men from a ‘poor background,’ and both were sole breadwinners of their families.
Doctors commenced the two surgeries at around 3 am in two operation theatres next to each other and wound up by 7. 30 am.
“The only other such dual heart transplant on the same day was performed on two babies at a UK hospital in March last year,” said Dr K.M. Cherian, director of Frontier Lifeline.
The 22 year old recipient had been admitted for transplant twice before, but the heart received was found to be unsuitable. The sound engineer had undergone bypass surgery, but his recovery was poor.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Marginal-rise-in-drug-resistant-TB-across-the-state/articleshow/5717427.cms

CHENNAI: Even as the state has been able to meet and even exceed the target set under the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) in terms of the cure rate of new positive patients, the incidence of multi-drug resistant TB threatens to derail the programme.

The health department has identified that 12% to 13% of existing TB cases in the state and 2-3% of new cases are multi-drug resistant TB cases (MDR-TB). This means 12-13% of patients who have been diagnosed with TB have developed a resistance to Rifampiocin and Isoniazid, two of the most effective anti-tubercular drugs. To address this issue, the government has initiated the DOTS Plus strategy to treat MDR-TB patients and to prevent propagation and dissemination of MDR-TB.

"We have been able to achieve a cure rate of 85%, success rate of 86% and a sputum conversion rate of 91% upto December 2009. There is a marginal rise in the number of MDR-TB among the existing cases, but it threatens to derail the good work done through the RNTCP, so we are working towards controlling that. There is no prevalence of extensively drug-resistant cases in the state so far," said director of public health and preventive medicine Dr S Ilango.

He says irregular treatment is to blame for TB patients turning drug-resistant. The state has identified the TB Hospital in Tambaram Sanatorium as a DOT Plus site, and anybody identified in the district as multi-drug resistant will be referred here. The state spends Rs 1.5 - 2 lakh on each MDR-TB patient.

"The patient is first counselled and checked to see if his body is fit to undergo the intensive 24-month regimen, which involves taking 10 pills a day and injections six days in a week. It is very expensive and there are a lot of side effects," says Dr P Madhumathi, microbiologist at the Intermediate Reference Laboratory in the Tuberculosis Research Centre in Chetpet.

On Tuesday the State Health SocietyRNTCP took out a rally along the Marina and released the CD of a song to create awareness of TB and the DOTS programme as part of the World TB Day celebrations.

According to WHO's global report on drug resistant TB released recently, India and China are home to 50% of the world's MDR-TB cases. It is among the 27 high MDR-TB burden countries that have had at least 4,000 MDR-TB cases rising annually and / or at least 10% of newly registered TB cases with MDR-TB.

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/chennai/huge-traffic-%E2%80%98crazy%E2%80%99-rti-petitions-puts-officials-547

March 23: Many believe that the Right To Information (RTI) Act is a great crusader against corruption and a second freedom post-1947, but state RTI commission officials say they are disheartened by the huge traffic of ‘crazy’ petitions.
‘Overenthusiastic’ activists send long and irrelevant petitions, at times running to over a hundred pagers, which do not even fall under the purview of the RTI, according to chief information commissioner S. Ramakrishnan, who bem-oaned that even five years after the RTI enactment, most of the public seemed unaware how to use the Act and write petitions in simple form.
Holding up a 100-page petition recently sent to him, he said many of them came without clarity in the questions. “Many petitioners send us their personal complaints and want action against police and other government officials. One woman complained that the police was harassing her. We come into the picture only when the Public Information Officer (PIO) of any department/office fails to provide the information sought by the petitioner,” he told this newspaper.
RTI activist V.Madhav pointed out that section 6 (1) of the RTI act stipulated that the PIOs should assist the petitioners to file the RTI applications and be kind to the public. “But this rarely happens,” he said.

This is a sad day for TN. A criminal son is holding up the ascent of a good administrator who has a great potential to unshackle the true potential of TN:

Chennai: The fight for succession in the ruling DMK resurfaced on Wednesday with party chief M Karunanidhi's elder son and Union Minister MK Alagiri refusing to accept anyone other than his father as his leader.

Alagiri's remarks reignited the succession war that appeared to have been settled with the promotion of his younger sibling MK Stalin as Deputy Chief Minister in 2009 by Karunanidhi, with Alagiri himself being promoted to national politics after being inducted into the Union Cabinet.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/im-not-retiring-soon-karunanidhi-tells-sons/111972-37.html?from=tn

^^ After MK, this might turn into a bloody battle affecting TN with political uncertainty...may be something like Telengana :ohno::ohno:

Other states are waiting for this happen to finish off TN in their investment competition and will make us forget about the dream projects like Sethusamudram. :ohno::ohno:

In this situation, it is better if we have Amma back :|:|

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Madras-varsity-VC-opposes-Foreign-Universities-Bill/articleshow/5720484.cms

CHENNAI: In the first major opposition from Tamil Nadu to the entry of foreign universities in the country, University of Madras vice chancellor G Thiruvasagam on Wednesday criticised the move on the ground that social justice would become a casualty in the higher education sector.

"When our own private universities and deemed universities are not taking care of the interests of students hailing from socially backward and economically weaker sections, how can we expect foreign universities to admit such students? We will be restricting access to higher education in foreign universities only to students belonging to rich families. Should we give our soil (land) and resources to foreign institutions to take care of the interests of the rich alone," he asked.

Delivering the convocation address at the Pachaiyappa's College here, Thiruvasagam was also dismissive of the argument that globally renowned educational institutions would set up operations in India as and when Parliament approves the Foreign Universities Bill, which was cleared by the Union cabinet last week.

"No Harvard or Columbia University or other top ranking institutions would come to India. I doubt it. Even the universities which come here would not offer a need-based curriculum. That's why even within the country and state we are opposed to a common curriculum under which the local needs are not addressed. For instance, in Coimbatore a university could offer a course in textiles (which is the major industry in the region) or in Tirunelveli we could teach courses on fisheries. This need-based approach would be missing in foreign universities," he said.

According to him, the entry of foreign universities would also pose a threat to the foreign exchange that India earns by means of collecting fees from students of other countries who study here. In the University of Madras and its affiliated colleges alone, over 850 foreign students were pursuing various courses. "If foreign universities begin operations here, these students might migrate there," he feared.

Globalisation of higher education, however, could curtail the outgo of Indian currency also. "At present around 1.8 lakh students leave abroad for higher studies. Possibly some of them could stay back if foreign universities are allowed here. Also, our teachers could interact and collaborate with foreign teachers. Beyond this there are no other major advantages," Thiruvasagam said.

Pachaiyappa's Trust board president Ishari K Ganesh pointed out that among the illustrious alumni of the institution were former chief ministers CN Anna Durai, Bhramananda Reddy (Andhra Pradesh), ex-governors KC Reddy (Madhya Pradesh) and P Ramachandran (Kerala). He assured that the new trustees would promote the standard of Pachaiyappa's College to international level. Financial trustee A Vetriazhagan delivered the keynote address and college principal in-charge R Rukmani welcomed the gathering.

http://www.hindu.com/2010/03/25/stories/2010032555200100.htm

CHENNAI: The Health Department will soon introduce a foolproof system for disposing of time-barred drugs, M. Bhaskaran, Director, Directorate of Drug Control, said on Wednesday.

The move follows the seizure of expired drugs that were sent to retail outlets with fake manufacture/expiry dates.

While seven persons were arrested and two surrendered in a city court on Tuesday, special teams were rushed to a neighbouring State to apprehend three prime suspects in the case.

“We have evolved a procedure that will ensure foolproof disposal of time-barred drugs. Because of timely intervention, we have been able to prevent large stocks of expired drugs from reaching the people. Drug Inspectors have been asked to look for three particular medicines that are being circulated with fake dates of manufacture or expiry. Pro-active steps are being taken to expose the entire nexus,” Mr. Bhaskaran told The Hindu on Wednesday.

Seizure worth Rs. 1 cr.

The Chennai police seized expired drugs worth about Rs.1 crore from a godown here on Wednesday.

The medicines, mostly vitamin supplements in the form of tablets or tonic for pregnant women, were seized from the storage point of Sanjay Kumar, one of the prime suspects wanted in the case pertaining to sale of expired drugs.

“We are following some specific inputs and more seizures will follow soon. This is a very elaborate case and a special team of more than 60 police personnel are involved in the investigation and the arrest of accused persons. The seized medicines are being sent for forensic analysis,” Commissioner of Police T. Rajendran said.

^^ After MK, this might turn into a bloody battle affecting TN with political uncertainty...may be something like Telengana :ohno::ohno:

Other states are waiting for this happen to finish off TN in their investment competition and will make us forget about the dream projects like Sethusamudram. :ohno::ohno:

In this situation, it is better if we have Amma back :|:|

Stalin or Maran are the better choices available. Things are not looking good for DMK in the short-term. If Stalin can consolidate the party leaders with an iron fist, then he can pull it off.

CHENNAI: In the first major opposition from Tamil Nadu to the entry of foreign universities in the country, University of Madras vice chancellor G Thiruvasagam on Wednesday criticised the move on the ground that social justice would become a casualty in the higher education sector.

To the vice chancellor,
Why should social justice suffer? What are you there for?
Are you scared that smarter students would opt for better universities than the backward ones like yours? In fact you are doing no justice to development and nurturing of talent.

Stalin or Maran are the better choices available. Things are not looking good for DMK in the short-term. If Stalin can consolidate the party leaders with an iron fist, then he can pull it off.

With Stalin having more political experience than MKA, good choice would be him. Doubt that would be any easy.

This TN INC will never change! :bash:

http://dkn.dinakaran.com/pdf/2010/03/25/20100325a_003101007.jpg

I hope the entry of foreign university will help us in eradicating the so called useless reservation system. I am not against the reservation system. The reservation system instead of helping rural and deprived society it is merely used only for political purpose. Number of students going abroad is on the rise every year and this is a multi billion dollar opportunity(another sunrise sector). I strongly believe competition will improve quality. Our institutions pride in claiming 100 percent placement rather than concentrating on research and churning out entrepreneur.

This is in Chennai, I could not find Tamil in that name/information board, when CG could not give equal importance to state language, I wonder how traders will give importance.


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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Madras-varsity-VC-opposes-Foreign-Universities-Bill/articleshow/5720484.cms

CHENNAI: In the first major opposition from Tamil Nadu to the entry of foreign universities in the country, University of Madras vice chancellor G Thiruvasagam on Wednesday criticised the move on the ground that social justice would become a casualty in the higher education sector.

This is worrying, now that caste has been brought into this, TN is unlikely to make a strong pitch for foreign universities in Chennai. This would lead to thesee universties moving to other states like KA, Guj. and TN would be left out. :ohno:

^^ Nice find Arul. Will Chennai Corporation force this board changed as well? It (along with any other Govt offices' boards) has to be done in first place before asking the traders to change.

Good find arul!

This is not the only one information board by central govt. which discriminates tamil , many establishment (Central) has only hindi n english boards in it.
Even recently, a full hindi advertisement regarding 'right to ...... something" featuring Gulzar was given in all tamil media channels.

In the national highways also, they continue to dominate with hindi. Though there was some resistance for this during jaya's period but now no political parties are concerned abt it. They slowly penetrating hindi into TN

Good find arul!

This is not the only one information board by central govt. which discriminates tamil , many establishment (Central) has only hindi n english boards in it.
Even recently, a full hindi advertisement regarding 'right to ...... something" featuring Gulzar was given in all tamil media channels.

In the national highways also, they continue to dominate with hindi. Though there was some resistance for this during jaya's period but now no political parties are concerned abt it. They slowly penetrating hindi into TN

I really appreciate dinamalar , as it had put pre-martial sex news as one of news.

not like IBNLive and times of india which had put it has headliners.

We don't have one IIM or National law school like institution here. we are stuck with second rate ones while neighbors like AP or KA woo top names

IIM approved for Trichy and is coming soon. Infact they alloted new seats for trichy in CAT exam.

Good find arul!

This is not the only one information board by central govt. which discriminates tamil , many establishment (Central) has only hindi n english boards in it.
Even recently, a full hindi advertisement regarding 'right to ...... something" featuring Gulzar was given in all tamil media channels.

In the national highways also, they continue to dominate with hindi. Though there was some resistance for this during jaya's period but now no political parties are concerned abt it. They slowly penetrating hindi into TN
Having the regional language, English and Hindi to represent information in Central Govt. properties like Central Govt offices, national highways etc. is the norm everywhere in India and we need not get alarmed about it.

^^ IMHO, if at all it has to happen, Tamil may lose only to English and not to any other Indian language because of the penetration and necessity to learn English for getting jobs and stuff. The same holds good for Hindi - if at all they care, they should concentrate on strengthening their base against English invasion instead of trying to take on other Indian languages.

I think the bad blood that got in during the language riots of the 60s is dying down a bit and is mostly kept alive by politicians. In a way, whatever happened in the 60s was good because that was the right time for things like those to happen. In this era, its difficult to get those things into people's minds and if this happens politicians will become impatient and cause other problems which we don't want. :)

Having the regional language, English and Hindi to represent information in Central Govt. properties like Central Govt offices, national highways etc. is the norm everywhere in India and we need not get alarmed about it.

Why Hindi is needed for national highways outside Hindi speaking state? I think for above type of explanation only MK is asking Tamil to be one of official language of central government.

I will tell you the way CG approach on local language, I have observed many times in Chennai AP CISF never speak local language or English. Pathetic to see local people sometimes getting trapped for their questions and clarification in the language which they don't know. And quiet few of the railway station in Tamilnadu have ticked issuers who don't know local language. These are things which I have noted personally. And no one is asking CG to implement the local language to length and breath of the country, all request is give equal importance to local language for their work.

^^ IMHO, if at all it has to happen, Tamil may lose only to English and not to any other Indian language because of the penetration and necessity to learn English for getting jobs and stuff. The same holds good for Hindi - if at all they care, they should concentrate on strengthening their base against English invasion instead of trying to take on other Indian languages.


True, this is a threat because people in TN consider speaking English as pride language and not as business language. The pride preaching of English starts from school, there are schools in Tamilnadu which will impose fine on students for speaking in Tamil inside school campus, students are supposed to speak in English! :lol: So I guess first treatment has to go there.

Why Hindi is needed for national highways outside Hindi speaking state? I think for above type of explanation only MK is asking Tamil to be one of official language of central government.

I will tell you the way CG approach on local language, I have observed many times in Chennai AP CISF never speak local language or English. Pathetic to see local people sometimes getting trapped for their questions and clarification in the language which they don't know. And quiet few of the railway station in Tamilnadu have ticked issuers who don't know local language. These are things which I have noted personally. And no one is asking CG to implement the local language to length and breath of the country, all request is give equal importance to local language for their work.

I only quoted my observation of CG properties and its prevalence of that practice in many parts of the country. I never said that it was right or wrong.

About the Chennai AP and railways stuff that you have quoted...unless we have a federal system, states are always at the mercy of the CG and CG will use this to manipulate the resources to push its agenda through. States like ours which have opposed the CG on many issues including the mass-appealing language issue will have to bear the brunt of these in some little ways like what you have mentioned above. Of late, to some extent, privatization has helped us get out of the grip of both CG and SG for good.

True, this is a threat because people in TN consider speaking English as pride language and not as business language. The pride preaching of English starts from school, there are schools in Tamilnadu which will impose fine on students for speaking in Tamil inside school campus, students are supposed to speak in English! :lol: So I guess first treatment has to go there.

If all at loss is inevitable, then, I feel happy to lose to English rather than any other Indian language. This is because English is in a different league and affects everyone (including speakers of other Indian languages) whereas all Indian languages are in the same league and deserve the same level of respect (none is above the other). :)

^^
well said. India is developing because of its english advantage.
all the professional courses are taught in english and not in any indian language
english penetration - acceptable
hindi penetration - not acceptable

http://www.hindu.com/2010/03/27/stories/2010032755852600.htm

Gets £10,000 for his work on Solexa sequencing

Thanks the BBSRC for its support

LONDON: Chennai-born Shankar Balasubramanian of Cambridge University has been named Innovator of the Year by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), Britain's leading agency for academic research and training in non-clinical life sciences.

He has been awarded £10,000 in recognition of his work on Solexa sequencing, the high speed genome sequencing technology. The award, now in its second year, is meant to encourage research that has practical impact on quality of life.

Professor Balasubramanian, who is also the winner of the Commercial Innovator of the Year category, said he was “delighted.”

“None of this would have happened without the support of the BBSRC. Their backing was essential for the blue skies research that gave rise to our original inventions. The continued funding of fundamental science by the BBSRC will be an essential part of future enterprises and ultimately, wealth creation,” he said.

Professor Douglas Kell, BBSRC chief executive, said: “The BBSRC is pleased to be able to recognise and reward researchers who are making extraordinary progress in translating their research into applications that are of benefit socially and for UK Plc.”

Science and Innovation Minister Lord Drayson said turning research into innovation was crucial for future prosperity. “Finding practical applications for scientific discoveries is part of the joy of science. Today's winners make science exciting and relevant, with the potential to generate great benefits for our economy and society.”

Professor Balasubramanian, whose parents moved to Britain a year after he was born, graduated in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University and went on to do a PhD. He worked with David Klenerman of the department of chemistry, to invent low-cost and high-speed genome sequencing technology.

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/chennai/state-address-public-pleas-within-2-months-377

Chennai, March 26: In a move that could cut the red tape that inevitably follows the filing of a public petition, the state government has come out with rules that set a time frame for such appeals to be addressed.
Petitioners will now have to be given a written acknowledgement immediately and their grievance addressed within two months, according to a circular sent out by the personnel and administrative reforms department.
Acting on the recommendations of an administrative reforms committee headed by retired judge A.K. Rajan, which advises that every letter or petition received by a government office from the public should be acknowledged within a stipulated period, the government has issued an order to all the department heads.
Asking secretaries and department heads to “scrupulously” follow the instructions, personnel and administrative department secretary K.N. Venkataramanan said in the circular that the department would oversee the implementation of the new rules and carry out inspections to make sure they are followed.
As per the directive, an acknowledgement should be given to the petitioner immediately, at the most within three days of the petition being received. “The grievance itself should be addressed within a maximum period of two months,” the directive said.
Citizens approaching the government department with their petitions should be informed of the progress made in addressing their grievance, the circular noted.
If a particular grievance is expected to take more than two months to address, an interim reply should invariably be sent to the petitioner concerned. In case a petitioner’s request is not feasible, a reasoned reply may be sent to the aggrieved citizen within two months.
The government passed an order in 2006 asking the personnel and administrative reforms department to direct department heads to see that public petitions are addressed without fail.

This was big news in the tech sector in the US last month...I am not sure if this was posted here.

The Bloom Energy CEO K.R.Sridhar has finally unveiled his entry in the fuel-cell arena after years of playing it close to the vest. He is a NIT Trichy educated guy who later moved on to the US.

http://fortunebrainstormtech.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/jsprague_kr_sridhar-rx.jpg?w=240&h=343

More info at

http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2010/02/19/is-k-r-sridhars-magic-box-ready-for-prime-time/

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/24/eveningnews/main6239941.shtml

If all at loss is inevitable, then, I feel happy to lose to English rather than any other Indian language. This is because English is in a different league and affects everyone (including speakers of other Indian languages) whereas all Indian languages are in the same league and deserve the same level of respect (none is above the other). :)

+1

The biggest problem with imposition of Hindi was that, it made the language of one section of Indians more important than the language of another.

Too bad most other states didn't oppose it and seems to be okay with that idea.

+1

The biggest problem with imposition of Hindi was that, it made the language of one section of Indians more important than the language of another.

Too bad most other states didn't oppose it and seems to be okay with that idea.



Pro-Hindi people argue that its better to promote some Indian language than to impose foreign language, so it depends on your point of view.

Ultimately, there is no single ideological solution. You can't say "Kick Hindi out" or "Kick English out" etc. Then you'll create boundaries/hatred and the result will be disastrous for everybody.

See what is happening in Maharashtra. Some self-important politician from UP arrives to plant "Hindi Flag" in Mumbai. Obviously the local rabble-rousers reciprocate with some provocative speeches and possible violence.

If we were all a little humble and tried to understand the other person's situation and point of view things would be so much more pleasant, no?

As some wise man once said - "Save the world from purity and puritans". Your language will change. Tamil will change. Hindi will change. Tamil of 50 years from now will not be the same as the one spoken today, and Tamil of today is very different from Tamil spoken 50 years back.

The best practical solution ? Print all signboards in 3 scripts. People will read what they can understand.

^^
well said. India is developing because of its english advantage.
all the professional courses are taught in english and not in any indian language
english penetration - acceptable
hindi penetration - not acceptable


:wtf: you guys are talking about....You people accept English ( A foreign Language) and will not accept Hindi ( OUR NATIONAL LANGUAGE) . Understand guys , If you look closely all the foreign countries are developing their own language. English is the national language of US and UK . So all products from them are in English. You See Japanese in all Japan products. Chinese in China made products even when Madrian is the widely spoke language. So what is wrong in having Nameboards and Sign boards in our National language. Region comes next to the Nation. So why cant we learn English and Hindi and Tamil. Even Captian Vijaykanth has accepted it. Dont pour oil in the burning fire.

Ponga da poi polangala padika vainga

:wtf: you guys are talking about....You people accept English ( A foreign Language) and will not accept Hindi ( OUR NATIONAL LANGUAGE) . Understand guys , If you look closely all the foreign countries are developing their own language. English is the national language of US and UK . So all products from them are in English. You See Japanese in all Japan products. Chinese in China made products even when Madrian is the widely spoke language. So what is wrong in having Nameboards and Sign boards in our National language. Region comes next to the Nation. So why cant we learn English and Hindi and Tamil. Even Captian Vijaykanth has accepted it. Dont pour oil in the burning fire.

Ponga da poi polangala padika vainga

^^ A little respect to fellow forumers wouldn't be out of place. :nuts::ohno:

Having the regional language, English and Hindi to represent information in Central Govt. properties like Central Govt offices, national highways etc. is the norm everywhere in India and we need not get alarmed about it.

But if the locals cannot understand what is written on those signboards, then it becomes a problem rite? I wouldn't like it if I can't read what is written on the government office in my locality.

With English its even worse. With 60% literacy and most of it in vernacular languages, a lot of signboards I see are only in English. If I didn't know how to read english I'd be pretty damned pissed off.

Especially on National highways, they should make sure that triliningual signboards are used, just for road safety.

In Gulf it is written in English and Arabic, Most of drivers are from Pak and India north India they manages very well. When they can manage in other country why cant they manage in India. Please give respect to local language, respect the Indianess of diversity. I am not understanding one point, Why it is always preached Indian means respect for Hindi language.

:wtf: you guys are talking about....You people accept English ( A foreign Language) and will not accept Hindi ( OUR NATIONAL LANGUAGE) .

From when Hindi is national language? :lol:


Understand guys , If you look closely all the foreign countries are developing their own language. English is the national language of US and UK . So all products from them are in English. You See Japanese in all Japan products. Chinese in China made products even when Madrian is the widely spoke language. So what is wrong in having Nameboards and Sign boards in our National language.

Again please tell me when Hindi became the national language? And you should closely look all those foreign countries does not have different languages for each state like India. You have compare India with European union and not to France, Germany etc., on language issue.


Region comes next to the Nation. So why cant we learn English and Hindi and Tamil. Even Captian Vijaykanth has accepted it. Dont pour oil in the burning fire.

Again from when Hindi and English was national language? Who is Vijayakanth to accept? Just go back to 1960's struggle of TN political leaders, they are not fools to frame two language policy for the state.

Ponga da poi polangala padika vainga

Try to follow some respect in this forum even in this chat threads.

Pro-Hindi people argue that its better to promote some Indian language than to impose foreign language, so it depends on your point of view.

Ultimately, there is no single ideological solution. You can't say "Kick Hindi out" or "Kick English out" etc. Then you'll create boundaries/hatred and the result will be disastrous for everybody.

See what is happening in Maharashtra. Some self-important politician from UP arrives to plant "Hindi Flag" in Mumbai. Obviously the local rabble-rousers reciprocate with some provocative speeches and possible violence.

If we were all a little humble and tried to understand the other person's situation and point of view things would be so much more pleasant, no?


I am not saying 'Kick Hindi out', as a matter of fact I can read, write and speak Hindi fluently.
What I am against is imposition of any one language on another group of people. Doing that has somehow given the idea that Hindi is special. In a multi-cultural country like India, that's not a good thing.


As some wise man once said - "Save the world from purity and puritans". Your language will change. Tamil will change. Hindi will change. Tamil of 50 years from now will not be the same as the one spoken today, and Tamil of today is very different from Tamil spoken 50 years back.


Trust me, I am not a puritan, far from it I understand that change is constant and maintaining status-quo is pretty much equal to going backward.

^^

my idea is also same. i live in northern part of India and I can manage with hindi. i have friends from many states. some of my friends know only english and hindi but not their regional ones. i dont want that thing to happen in TN

^My guess is that in the next 20-30 years we will all be speaking a mixture of English, Hindi and local language. Its inevitable.

^^ Necessity is the mother of invention. When people from TN go to North India, there is a necessity to learn Hindi and they learn it. In fact, there are lots of TN folks living in North India. How can they live there for several decades if they haven't learnt Hindi?

In the same way, when others come to TN and if they don't know English and couldn't find anyone to help him/her through a link language like Hindi, then that person will learn Tamil. Too many marvadi communities in TN speak Tamil. Why? Its because they want to reach the market (the people) and the best way to reach them is speaking their language. Why do they need to reach the market? Its because they want to sell their products. Why do they sell their products? For a living!!!!

I wanted to check if the so-called 'Hindi syndrome' was there only in TN and so I spoke to a few of my friends who come from non-metros of other southern states - they all said that they don't know Hindi very well and they don't like people talking in Hindi to them all the time.

Unlike North India, in South India people don't use Hindi in everyday communication in most places. Their main source of learning Hindi is in schools and Hindi movies. Now, in this situation, an uneducated South Indian won't know English and Hindi - so Hindi is no different than English - both are alien. Here is where the individual will decide on what is good for him/her - this is again, mostly dictated by necessity. What is a necessity? A living is a necessity. What can give a living in TN by learning Hindi - a Central Govt job. What can give a living in TN by learning English - too many jobs including high-paying ones. :)

By the way, how many English or Arabic speaking people to go the Gulf? As we all know that most of the Indian laborers who go there don't know either English or Arabic or Hindi (take the case of TN workers in the Gulf). Then how are they able to survive there?

Its always necessity!! People will adapt to situations for their survival!! You ask anyone in the IT industry if they had a dream of working in front of computers - most would say NO but they are here to get a high paying job - this is a necessity for survival!!

Now coming to the business aspect of this...

If people other than in TN can understand Hindi, why is that television commercials aren't aired in Hindi in those states. Whenever I switch on Gemini TV, ads are in Telugu, in Asianet, it is in Malayalam and it Udaya TV, its in Kannada. In fact, many Hindi ads are dubbed into these languages. Why? Could someone provide a logic to contest this? :)

As a said, all Indian languages are equal. Nothing is above the other!

Now coming to the Dravidian politics on how they can continue this Hindi imposition struggle going forward...

1. Hindi is not compulsory in schools. Also, parents are in a hurry to take their kids into English schools. So, we are good here. :)
2. Tamil media is heavily controlled by the Dravidian parties - TV channels, movie production etc. So, these parties will push their agenda through these media. So, we need not worry about this. :)
3. Tamil cinema is equivalent to Hindi cinema in all aspects - variety, technology, innovation etc. So, people won't make all attempts to go and watch Hindi cinema and discard Tamil cinema. So, we need not worry about this. :)
4. TN is growing big in all industries and so locals won't migrate to all states in big numbers. So, we are good here. :) By the way, migration is universal and inevitable in a globalized world.
5. People coming from other parts of the country to TN will live in Rome as the Romans do or will go out to seek other opportunities. So, we need not worry about this; its their wish. :)

You people are really hung up on language eh? To each his own I suppose...

^^ Friend, I am not for domination of any language. We are all Indians and respect each other. Sometimes, things like these can be talked about in an amicable manner and we can move on. :)

Look dude, I've read few books on the history of languages, and let me tell you. You can "resist" all you want, but there will be some influence of Hindi and English on Tamil. There is absolutely no way that Tamil is going to remain "pure", because it never was. Loanwords will keep coming into the language with each successive generation (as they have been throughout history). You may not like it, but the next generation of people in Tamil Nadu will be speaking a different coloquial Tamil than the one that you are used to.

The only way to "preserve" a language is to keep it locked away and out of use (like classical Sanskrit, which has remained unchanged precisely because hardly anybody speaks it)

^^ We are not talking about loan words. We are talking of complete take-over i.e. Hindi imposition. Anyway, it is what it is. We talking in a forum like this is just to vent out our thoughts and feelings. It will not have an impact on the millions who are not here. So, you keep your thought, I will keep mine and lets move on. :)

^^ We are not talking about loan words. We are talking of complete take-over i.e. Hindi imposition. Anyway, it is what it is. We talking in a forum like this is just to vent out our thoughts and feelings. It will not have an impact on the millions who are not here. So, you keep your thought, I will keep mine and lets move on. :)

There's no such thing as a "complete takeover". This isn't the 16th century that some Badshah from Persia will come on his horseback and start executing people for speaking the wrong language.