On a day when her companion of close to a quarter century was anointed her successor, Rediff.com's A Ganesh Nadar visits J Jayalalithaa's memorial on Marina Beach two months after her death.
Thulasenthirapuram and Painganadu villages in Tamil Nadu celebrate their daughter's victory.
While in the AIADMK office you could feel the vibes of victory, at OPS' house you could feel the struggle.
Priyanka Goswami's timing of 1:28:45 broke the national record by over a minute.
The IT department is into computerisation and reform, and we are committed to making the taxpayer's life easy, says Urvashi Saxena, Chief Commissioner of Income Tax, Mumbai.
Do you know Sameer has written 4,000 songs for 500 movies? A rare interview.
'Working from home is stressful as there is a blur between personal and professional space.' 'We should not overdo the follow up and checking.'
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.
Despite severe restrictions imposed on the number of bulls, bull-tamers and spectators thanks to the pandemic, Jallikattu organisers are hopeful of the show going on this Pongal.
'Human trafficking from Bangladesh is a regular phenomenon and those people come here to work or in search of greener pastures. They are all over the country. We are giving them legal recognition and making them citizens so that they don't have to live in fear,' says R Nataraj, AIADMK MLA from Tamil Nadu.
Day Two after the banks reopened following the prime minister's demonitisation announcement, the scenario remained just as chaotic as Day One, reports A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com.
'If I had earned money as an MLA, I would have been sad to lose my seat.' 'But I have not earned money. Instead, I have earned respect.'
'They attack standing crops and vegetables.' 'They don't attack people.' 'People are just panicking.'
What happens when two former ministers go up against each other? No sparks fly, reports A Ganesh Nadar from the Arakkonam Lok Sabha constituency in Tamil Nadu, but it is the summer heat that has the last word on the campaign.
'The people who stay with us were not born orphans; they have been abandoned.'
But sooner or later, the victims must return to work, says C V Shankar, the official in charge of relief.
'Last year, Diwali came in November when winter had set in, when there was high humidity and fog in the air.' 'But this year Diwali has come in October and there is no high humidity in the air.'
'They might not have liked his judgments on IT rules, the Election Commission and Pondicherry.'
One needs patience to watch Once Again, feels A Ganesh Nadar.
A pandal, just outside the local church, that once had thousands of protesters flocking there and shouting slogans, is strangely silent.
N Kalyanasundaram started saving up last year so that he could feed the hungry during the second COVID lockdown.
A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com spends a day at the Manapaddu beach in Tuticorin where nearly 100 whales were mysteriously beached and many died despite the best efforts of the fishermen and authorities.
'The government is not ready to talk to us. They have their own agenda.'
'The capacity of the M A Chidambaram stadium is 36,000 spectators.' 'We are hoping to get permission for seating 20-30 per cent of this capacity.'
'We have instructed all our officials to take complaints of water shortage seriously and attend to it immediately.'
'Hopefully, by May 1, we can start construction. The land has already been identified.'
A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com meets the families of those killed in the police firing on Sterlite protestors in Thoothukudi, and finds a similar tale running through their lives.
'There are plenty of videos of boys drinking on social media; I have not heard of any boys being dismissed from college because of this.' 'They have been dismissed just because they are girls.'
'He never used the party's cars and always was chauffeured in a private car.' On May 17, a day after his historic victory, Narendra Modi returned triumphantly to his old home at Ashoka Road where he lived as the party general secretary in the late 1990s. A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com meets folks who worked with him in the capital at that time. A rare glimpse of our next prime minister.
'Covid patients have infected lungs and the pollutants will further damage it.'
Javed Khan has been operating an auto ambulance in Madhya Pradesh's capital city since a month.
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