When faced with problems, this IAS officer came up with innovative solutions.
Barely weeks before he turned 22, a young fisherman was shot, allegedly by the Sri Lankan navy.
A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com tracks the train from Jolarpettai carrying its precious cargo.
'Possibly, our campaigns have made the right impact and raised the right questions, which is making several stakeholders uncomfortable,' Samit Aich, Greenpeace India's executive director, tells A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com
'In the current scenario e-commerce delivery is flourishing, driving demand.'
'Sometimes we succeed, sometimes we don't.' 'But you can use the RTI to improve the future.'
'DMK is taking a wrong image of BJP to the people.'
Migrant workers. Poor students. School dropouts. Impoverished women. Daniel Ponraj and his Shubh Sandesh Foundation are helping them all.
'I don't think we will need to support or get support from the Congress. I hope there is no such political exigency. The Congress will be gone from the political scene. There is no lesser evil. The BJP and Congress are the two sides of the same evil coin,' anti-Koodankulam nuclear plant activist and new AAP member S P Udaykumar tells Rediff.com's A Ganesh Nadar.
OPS has impressed Chennai residents by his astute, on the scene, handling of the Cyclone Vardah aftermath.
'If an election could be won only by canvassing then the AAP candidate will easily win. In canvassing they have let all the parties behind. They have met every voter in the villages many times and they have come from so far.' A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com travels to the rural hinterland of Varanasi and finds that only the BJP and AAP are active here.
A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com checks out the steady stream of leaders and party workers flowing in and out of the party headquarters in Varanasi, including the candidate's elder brother.
Over four days all of Tamil Nadu is caught up in celebrating Pongal, the state's harvest festival. From a bonfire to worshipping cattle, it is a throwback to a time when society was agrarian, says A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com.
'They have been imposing Hindi on Tamil Nadu,' says DMK spokesperson Saravanan Annadurai.
Until he was 24, Varun Chakravarthy was making a living as an architect. Three years later, an IPL team paid Rs 84 million for his spinning skills!
'Nobody will think like him. It was a treat for us to listen to him. He was meticulous in his argument. We got trained by listening to him,' says senior criminal lawyer R Shanmugasundaram, who had known Ram Jethmalani for almost 40 years.
'It is undemocratic and shows fascist tendencies.'
'With just 2.4 per cent of global landmass, India houses six to eight per cent of planetary biodiversity and hence is a prime target of wildlife criminals.'
Rediff.com's A Ganesh Nadar spent Monday outside the Apollo hospital, Chennai, along with hundreds of AIADMK supporters praying for Chief Minister Jayalalithaa's health.
Sandeep Jain hopes his actions will inspire others to do the same.
Megha smiles for the camera. Her smile hides the trauma this child faced, of being abducted, begging on the streets of Kashmir, escaping a flood, and coming back home.
'I have dedicated the video to the kindest people of this great nation.'
'My turnover is in crores. I am not going to sit down with IT officials, explaining where I got the notes from.' 'I would rather wait a few days for business to come back to normal.'
'You have to go from winning elections to winning people,' sociologist Ashis Nandy tells A Ganesh Nadar.
Hemangi and Prashant Nakwe's vegetarian thaali business is keeping them busy in the lockdown.
'Nobody has Dhoni's record of championship in three formats.' 'Every cricketer, every Indian, will agree to that.'
NGO rebuts Enforcement Directorate's charges.
'I am an auto driver, and I am doing my best.'
In a week from now, December 21, voters in R K Nagar in Chennai will decide who their MLA will be.
'We will go to every home and ask them to vote. We will go back once in 3 hours to check if they have voted. If not, we will ask them again... We will not rest till the final vote is cast,' RSS worker Chandramohan Seth tells A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com
'Bommai was a minister in my cabinet. It is not ethically correct.'
B V Srinivas and his team of volunteers are able to procure and pass medical supplies, including oxygen cylinders delivery at doorsteps and securing hospital admissions for COVID patients.
'People are quite productive while they work from home.' 'The sooner we accept the new normal, the better it is.'
Children between the ages of 10 and 14 continue to be brought to Garden City from villages in north India after their parents are paid a nominal amount and promised a job, shelter and work in Karnataka.
Manikarnika: The Queen Of Jhansi is one long action scene, notes A Ganesh Nadar.
'You have to understand the realities of Tamil Nadu politics before you decide if you want to be a politician,' A Ganesh Nadar advises the actor.
Senthil Kumar on why he has filed a plea in the Supreme Court against V K Sasikala becoming Tamil Nadu chief minister.
The AIADMK MP from Thoothukudi explains why he is backing O Panneerselvam as Tamil Nadu chief minister.
A Tamil Nadu district has created interesting ways to increase voting this assembly election.
It is reggae. It is inspired by Bob Marley. It is targeted at first time voters and those who think that voting is not cool.
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