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Sep 14, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read Read on X
The issue of their discussion of irrelevant here.
But the specific use of the word 'mami' is decidedly casteist here. But in the skewed politics of TN the one is who is referred to as mami will be branded as casteist. Image
And also those folks, who wear their wokeness on their sleeves should remember, the Dravidian types will eventually come for you and your caste. No matter what! Exhibit B: Image
And those self-anointed wokes, whose holier-than-thou act is always grating, are no different. But their cabal will always look the other way. This man, if he were on the other camp, would have been called "vile", "scumbag" by the commissars of woke culture. Image
It is always topsy-turvy in TN. A Kamal who has openly disowned his caste he was born into is called casteist. But a Sathyaraj, who has never uttered a word against his caste that is alleged to have perpetrated caste violence from time to time, is a Periarist, whatever that is.
Many of Sathyraj's movies actually place his caste in shining light. But he never gets called out.
Well, this is a land where even Bharathiar's clarion call "சாதிகள் இல்லையடி பாப்பா" is drowned by those seeking to see him as a "paapaan".

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Feb 3
Another🧵:
Ever since I wrote this

I have been receiving mails from people surprised that there is a KJ Yesudas Malayalam version of Raaja's show-stopping Ananda Ragam song from Panneer Pushpangal.swarajyamag.com/people/k-j-yes…
Yes, the song in female voice in Tamil is a male one in Malayalam. Listen to it. Tharunya Moham. Vintage Yesudas voice. You know why it was changed in Malayalam
This song is what set me on this thread. A bunch of songs popular in one language and a KJY version in another. Some of it well known, some others not so.
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Jan 3
K J Yesudas and Kalyani ragam, a love story🧵
I was recently at a concert where a top singer (not going to name the one) rendered a Kalyani ragam krithi that was flat without much spirit. Mortified, I came back and listened to the same ragam by my most favourite singer K J Yesudas.
It was then it struck me that KJY has sung at least 20 different songs in Kalyani alone in films & Carnatic concerts. So I went to YT & checked out the songs that I could remember. The sheer variety that our music directors have shown in strumming songs in Kalyani is tremendous.
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Nov 4, 2022
In praise of the humble podi idli. A thread:
These days almost all the standard restaurants in major cities in TN have podi idli on their menu. And that, sirs, can be a problem. For, podi idli, if it's true to its conception, does not belong in a hotel menu.
It is not a dish to be served hot. It is, unlike revenge, not to be served cold either. But it acquires its flavour & feel over a bit of time.
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Jul 16, 2022
Many people tend to remember actors, who have not been big stars, through the songs that were picturised on them. If there were even half-decent songs on the actor, there is a good chance of him being recalled even more fondly. In that sense Pratap Pothen was lucky.
Aside from iconic ones in Tamil like En Iniya Pon Nilave (Moodu Pani) and Kodai Kaala Kaatre (Panneer Pushpangal), he was lucky enough to get some handy melodies and fun songs. A small thread on them.
When I heard the news of his death, for some strange reason this simple melody came to mind. Shankar Ganesh in his most Raja wannabe mode.
Mazhaiye Mazhaiye (Amma)
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Apr 18, 2022
The death of well-known industrialist N Sankar yesterday is an apt occasion to talk of one small geographical belt that has thrown up pioneering entrepreneurs from TN: Kallidaikurichi.
From this quaint town in Tirunelveli district and nearby areas have hailed some top industrialists. The most well known is, of course, S N N Sankaralinga Iyer, the founder of Sanmar and India Cements group, and the grandfather of N Sankar.
It is after Sankaralinga Iyer that India Cements sold its products under the brand name Sankar Cements. the towns of its industrial plants in TN are named: Sankarnagar and Sankaridurg.
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Feb 4, 2022
Over the last two days we saw Rahul Gandhi's rousing speech in Parliament and his rhetorical taunt that BJP would never win in TN. In the State, the NEET Bill is stuck. There's an invisible thread connecting the two events. So a 🧵
First up, Rahul is indeed right and India is a Union of States. While the BJP is making it worse, the federal spirit was originally dealt a body blow by his grandmother Indira Gandhi, as she felt slighted by, well, TN.
To understand this we have to go to the '60s when Indira's govt, which had been voted to power in 1967, accepted the Kothari Commission (on Education) and passed the Bill for the same in Parliament. One of the recommendations was: 3 language system in higher classes in schools.
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