Box Hill is a famous hill in Surrey, in the South of London near Dorking. The nearest Station is Boxhill & Westhumble on the Sutton - Dorking route. By Road it is in A24. It is a nice wooded (forested) hill of box tress and chalk trees. Quite a few walking / trekking trails cover [...]

All of a sudden, towards the end of her reign, Amma announced a Monorail scheme for Chennai. Against a lot of opposition from other parties and advice of a few traffic experts, she tried to move quickly, invited an international tender and show some progress. It looked very much like an election stunt, just to [...]

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Much water has flown under the bridge (may not be in Palar) since my first part of this trip report, but here it is, the concluding part.

Apart from the Cathedral and clock tower, modern St Albans is yet another quiet commuter town of London. Like our Baashaa, it hides behind [...]

Am I the first or the only one to think that the underlying theme of RDB is an internalised version of Indian (Hindustani for Hindians). If Indian was about an old freedom fighter of the radical kind taking law into his own hands and killing a few corrupt people, RDB was about a few youngsters [...]

One of the first orders Kalaignar has signed is to make a qualified person of any community, eligible to becoming priests in Hindu temples. This is a very important step towards a caste-free society. While this was one of the earliest demands of D(M)K and he did even bring out an order in 1972, due [...]

Supreme Court on Slum Clearance
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The honourable judges have pronounced. Slum dwellers have no right to encroach public land and authorities have right to demolish the illegal slums without any notice. Whether they were living for 3 decades or 3 days, they cannot continue this encroachment for even a minute. When the counsel asked for humane [...]