'I was invited to join the BJP, and I felt respected when they called me.'
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.
Soorarai Pottru HELD A Ganesh Nadar'S attention till the last frame.
'The government is not ready to talk to us. They have their own agenda.'
The boat's Arab owner says he has paid the fine of Rs 29.5 lakhs, but the Iranians now want parking fees. As the Arab-Persian standoff continues, the Indian fishermen's families live in a state of limbo.
'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
When faced with problems, this IAS officer came up with innovative solutions.
'They might not have liked his judgments on IT rules, the Election Commission and Pondicherry.'
Barely weeks before he turned 22, a young fisherman was shot, allegedly by the Sri Lankan navy.
Javed Khan has been operating an auto ambulance in Madhya Pradesh's capital city since a month.
'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.
'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.'
'It may be a bit slow to start, but all are eager to get back into action.'
'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.
M Sundar was not surprised when his son hit that memorable six during India's second innings at the Gabba in Australia. 'Washington always knew how to hook. He is a natural hook player. 'He is a strong player. He is a natural hitter of the ball.'
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.
'The people who stay with us were not born orphans; they have been abandoned.'
OPS has impressed Chennai residents by his astute, on the scene, handling of the Cyclone Vardah aftermath.
'The financial situation of Tamil Nadu is much worse than it was in 2016.' 'The finance minister's is a horrendous job.' 'I am certainly not going to ask for it.'
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.
'You have to go from winning elections to winning people,' sociologist Ashis Nandy tells A Ganesh Nadar.
A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com tracks the train from Jolarpettai carrying its precious cargo.
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.
The Tamil Nadu Toddy Movement had met both Chief Minister Palaniswami and Stalin to seek their intervention in lifting the ban on toddy-tapping and had submitted petitions, but there it remained. So the matter is being taken to the people's court.
Rahul Gandhi treated teachers from Kanyakumari to a 'special Delhi dinner' and won their hearts.
'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.'
'Everyone knows Pakistan is doing it.' 'But what are we doing? We should not incite more violence.'
'The government is plucking leaves and not destroying the plant.'
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!
'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
'Jail was very crowded, we were 56 people crammed together. All 56 of us had to use only one toilet'
'Everyone was talking about migrants, frontline workers and cops...' 'Nobody was talking about sex workers during the pandemic.'
'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.
'The larger narrative doing the rounds was anti-Hindu, anti-India.' 'Despite the affinity, one could feel the lurking hostility.'
'The Galwan crisis involves the security of the nation, can't we spend eight hours on that?' 'Why are you scared? Why are you running away from that?
In a week from now, December 21, voters in R K Nagar in Chennai will decide who their MLA will be.
'In the current scenario e-commerce delivery is flourishing, driving demand.'
A Ganesh Nadar profiles a non-governmental organisation that has revealed startling figures about the state's poor children.
