'The government is not ready to talk to us. They have their own agenda.'
'The media hype that the Gir lion species is in danger is totally wrong.'
'Politics is in a mess. Good people have to join to clean it up.'
'By birth, you are not superior or inferior to anyone.' 'There are millions of people who want to have a casteless society. I am one of them.'
Kamakshi Paatti, a sprightly nonagenarian, has the Chennai civic corporation on its toes.
'People are quite productive while they work from home.' 'The sooner we accept the new normal, the better it is.'
'When you enter our secretariat, you are insulting us.' 'It is the seat of government of the state of Tamil Nadu,'
A Ganesh Nadar watches the fourth day of protests dawn on Chennai's Marina beach.
'I am fighting for my country's land and I am fighting for my people.' 'I am fighting for my country, not against it.'
'Tamil Nadu is a state of temples, it's a holy land. People don't seem to realise that.'
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I became his fan when I played with him years ago. I was in college and a member of Goregaon Sports Club, Mumbai. We had gone to ShivajiPark for a match with another club, but our match was postponed.
An angry Satyanarayana Shimoga questions why he has been denied the Dronacharya award.
The NIA detained 31-year-old H Subuhani from Kadayanallur in Tamil Nadu's Tirunelveli district for plotting terror activities.
The increase in the number of lady students is the result of the hard work by a team of ITI teachers who went from village to village, visiting every school and encouraging students to join the institute.
Country boat-owners in coastal Tamil Nadu are immensely upset over their non-representation in the talks over fishing with the Sri Lankan government, reports A Ganesh Nadar.
'They have been imposing Hindi on Tamil Nadu,' says DMK spokesperson Saravanan Annadurai.
288 first-time offenders have been coaxed to leave the path of crime and lead a normal life.
'How can you say such things? Just because he takes care of cows...'
'Democracy and dissent are being strangulated. It is not good for the country.'
Political skirmishes erupt over Chhattisgarh's decision to permit babus to attend RSS camps.
On May 22 and 23, the Tamil Nadu police shot dead 13 persons in Tuticorin after the months-long anti-Sterlite protests turned violent. A month later, when A Ganesh Nadar visited the homes of a few victims, he found the families and friends still cowering under fear of the police.
'Parents always remember what their child was last wearing, so it helps in both verifying what they say as well in identifying the child correctly even after many years have gone by,' says the head of a crack Delhi police team which has traced 54 missing children in the last one year.
'One quiver cannot have two different kinds of arrows.' 'The party cannot progress with two leaders.'
Coffee is a very small part of the magic that envelopes this beautiful land.
The date had been fixed, as was the venue. But what this young couple from Dehradun didn't plan for was the lockdown that prevented them from going back home to get married. Not to worry, the Pune police went out of their way to arrange for a venue, pandit, even for someone to do the kanyadan.
'Business will be 20% of what it was before the lockdown.'
'All this for only one reason -- that I oppose the government's nuclear power policy.' 'They will not break my resolve.' 'I will stand by my principle, which is to point out that nuclear energy is not safe.'
'We want to celebrate my brother's return in a big way, says Father Kumar's brother.
'I did get a couple of offers (in Hindi cinema) but the roles required a doll-like heroine, a glamorous role. I was getting challenging roles in the South and so I stayed here.'
Police in southern Tamil Nadu are facing grave charges of falsely implicating members of a nomadic tribe and torturing them into admitting to crimes they did not commit. A Ganesh Nadar reports from Kanyakumari.
Four fishermen who traveled to the Middle East, dreaming of earning more money, instead ended in an Iranian jail.
NGK -- Nandha Gopalan Kumaran is only meant for Suriya fans, feels A Ganesh Nadar.
Balavidyalaya in Chennai is probably India's only school for the deaf that trains the child and (one) parent for free.
'The biggest loser is Raj Thackeray's MNS. The MNS may inspire fear, but fear doesn't fetch votes.'
A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com meets the shattered families of the five Tamil fishermen sentenced to death by a Sri Lankan court for alleged drug smuggling. Most feel the men are being made an example of to scare off other fishermen from straying into Sri Lankan waters.
'Last night someone threw stones at my house at 11 pm. My car was also smashed.'
A nexus between the panchayat president and the block development officer has led to the failure of Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Act scheme in many villages, says A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com
'DMK is taking a wrong image of BJP to the people.'
