Heading to Kanyakumari? You won't regret a visit to the Thirparappu waterfalls.
Pon Radhakrishnan is also a Union minister of state. His opponent is the richest candidate in Tamil Nadu.
'It is easier to make friends with strangers as they are non-judgmental.'
In 2016, the Tamil Nadu railway police rescued 2,128 children; nearly six children a day, or a child every four hours.
'There have been many cases where clients have indicated that they feel suicidal as they feel they have no other options to deal with their financial hardship.'
'I got a lot of calls even from people that I don't know.' 'They called to tell me not to get dejected.' 'They told me my life would improve.'
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.
'IIT-Bombay is the most preferred institute for education in technology.' 'The environment is very good and I will be a good student and a better asset for the nation.'
'You can do anything after retirement. You have to pursue it. You have to take it up as a challenge.'
We continue our reader-driven series on great restaurants and eating places across the country--this time around in Chennai
'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.'
'I am not on OPS's side or anyone else's side.' 'I am on the side of truth. And the truth shall set us free,' says former MP P Kannan, who quit the AIADMK on Sunday.
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.
'One quiver cannot have two different kinds of arrows.' 'The party cannot progress with two leaders.'
Do you know Sameer has written 4,000 songs for 500 movies? A rare interview.
While in the AIADMK office you could feel the vibes of victory, at OPS' house you could feel the struggle.
'I traced 76 children within two-and-a-half months,' says Assistant Sub Inspector Seema Dhaka.
A man who was ready to die for the country in his youth waits for his government to recognise his sacrifice and pay him his due in his old age.
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.
But sooner or later, the victims must return to work, says C V Shankar, the official in charge of relief.
Two years ago, Inspector Stephen Jose told his colleagues he was going to participate in a body-building contest. He was 48. They didn't think he was serious. But he was. In January 2022, he became Mr Tamil Nadu.
'I have saluted thousands of senior officers during my 26 years of service, but saluting my own daughter made me very happy.'
'We must work for the country.' 'I have earned money here and I must give it back.' 'I don't think it is charity; I think it is my duty.'
His time will be divided 50-50, he says, between his autorickshaw and his work as mayor.
'Hopefully, by May 1, we can start construction. The land has already been identified.'
'Politics is in a mess. Good people have to join to clean it up.'
'They don't tell us what they take from customers. They don't tell customers what they give us.'
A pandal, just outside the local church, that once had thousands of protesters flocking there and shouting slogans, is strangely silent.
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.
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.
'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.
'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.'
