If I were to be Samsung, if the option is between shifting the factory or accepting CITU. I will choose shifting the factory. People have no idea, what is the actual consequences of allowing CITU inside the production line. It is better to save the Brand name than factory 🧵 1/n If a company allow CITU, they will loose the control over their production line, for high tech electronics company, it is like committing suicide. You can't control quality, u cant change the low quality employee. Political party (CITU is full of poltics) will dictate it 2/n

The pillars of Madurai Madana Gopala Swamy Temple displayed at the Philadelphia museum of Art. In 1912, during her trip to Madurai, Adeline Pepper Gibson bought the pillars, transported to USA, it was gifted to Philadelphia museum on 1919, displayed there as temple hall 1/3 Many heritage structures of Madurai incl the fort walls, orchids..etc were demolished by British. Many temples were in ruins. The pillars of the front mandapam was sold to Adeline Gibson, now displayed in the world famous Philadelphia museums. Adeline died at young age 2/3

Extending BMRCL upto Hosur is now a hot topic, hearing lot of angry voices. In 1973, TN govt setup Hosur SIPCOT due to proximity to Blre. Post 1991, Hosur saw decline. From 1998, KA started building, its largest Bommasandra industrial cluster using existing Hosur ecosystem 1/6

Hosur never competed with Bengaluru, it complimented it. Tamil Nadu/Hosur went through severe electricity crisis during 2009-13, political crisis btw 2014-17. During this time KA overtook TN in industrial investment. Built it's largest industrial ecosystem around Bangalore 2/6

TN is No.1 in destroying beaches with waste. With illegal shop, irresponsible people, & failed govt.
Marina beach is gone, then we lost Besant Nagar beach, Ariyamaan beach is also down with waste. It is sad to see once clean Mahabalipuram beach is also occupied by illegal shop. Most of these shops are controlled by local goons, these shop owners pay their rent to them. Regulating these shops by local bodies will fetch more revenue to them will help to keep it clean, but deprive mafia's their money. Shops went till beach water, getting worse in last 5yrs

My post on Vijayawada flood is misinterpreted by many. This post elaborate it.
Let us start with Vijayawada drainage basin. It is part of Krishna & Budameru basin part of Kolleru lake. Budameru basin has ~900sqkm of catchment basin till Vijayawada city with hills and lakes. 1/n





Vijayawada is not new to flood, In last 100 yrs, city went through 17+ floods driven by both Krishna & Budameru rivers. In 2005, Budameru created heavy flood in the northern part of the city, since it flows through the heart of the city. AP govt decided to divert the water 2/n

All these floods are not due to Krishna river but because of small Budameru vagu, it has ~900 sqkm catchment till Vijayawada. After 2005 flood, AP govt diverted part of the river into Krishna by connecting it with 37500 cusec Polavaram canal, still it overflowed the canal 1/2

https://twitter.com/KiranWeatherman/status/1830479161615351986

Due to heavy rainfall Budameru saw >60000 cusec, overflowing both the diversion canal & it's natural river course. It's natural path is illegally occupied, it can't even carry 10000 cusec flood. So water overflowed from the canal and the river, flooding the Vijayawada 2/2

Nagarathar migrated to Pandya Nadu, initially they settled in 9 villages, where they were granted 9 shiva temples. This 9 temples used as a primary classification of the community. Members within the each temple group are called Pangali's, they cannot marry within that group 1/10 Illayathangudi (இளையாத்தங்குடி) is the first Nagarathar settled village in Pandya nadu. It has the Kailasanathar Nithyakalyani Amman Temple and Kalanivasal Nagarathar Perumal Koil with two temple tanks 2/10

Many pilgrims visit Madurai on the way to Rameshwaram, Kanyakumari trip but most just visit Meenakshi Amman temple, donot stay overnight in the city. Madurai has many temples to offer with less restriction than Meenakshi temple. We can divide them into 7 circuits. This 🧵 1/20

Let us start with City Temple Circuit
Shri Koodal Azhagar Temple 2/20

As per the latest Water body database (it need correction), Telangana has the most number of large water bodies. They classify their Cheruvu as Tank, we say it as lake. TS spent more in their water resources in last 10yrs than TN spent in last 50+yrs. TS renovated many tank/lakes

https://twitter.com/dstock_insights/status/1655952416834224133

WRIS report put Tamil Nadu as a State with most number of large water body. Just Water body database put Telangana as the state with most number of large water bodies. The later is bit more accurate than the former

Madras plaid is a thin cotton fabric with checkered color pattern. City grew around the export biz of Madras fabric in the 17th century. Madras plaid were highly popular in 1960's as American elite & ivy league preppy cloth. Also, popular among African & Caribbean nations 1/4 Madras plaid cotton were handmade with natural vegetable coloring. This fabric known as elite summer cloth in western countries due to its naturally breathing cotton, thrived during British period. It is also called Madras handkerchief or bleeding madras due to fading color 2/4

Pallikarani basin has 231sqkm of catchment area with many regions close to sea level, few below sea level. In the east, borders a raised landmass. It has only one outflow-Okkiyam Medu. During heavy rain, it will form largest dam in North TN. I can't find any natural solution 1/4 The topographical map shows the pallikaranai valley, it forms the perfect bowl, with human habitat on the edges. It is part of heavy rainfall receiving TN's north coastal region. With only drain through Okkiyam Madavu and Buckingham canal, known for very slow waterflow. 2/4

Vaigai dam is 85% full, it is opening ~4000 cusec into the river for the irrigation of Sivaganga/Ramnad dt. This water will flow through 26 checkdams and ends at Ramnad periya Kanmai. Vaigai basin has ~49TMC surface water (Incl Mullaperiyar), <4% of surface water reach sea 1/6 Vaigai river originates in Varushanadu valley in the Gandamanayakanur zamin. It flows for 295.1km to reach sea at Attangarai. Vaigai basin has 1049 system tanks(fed by river), 329 nonsystem tank (fed by its own catchment). Water also diverted to Gundar and Pambar basin lakes 2/6

There is lot of misinformation spread in media abt TN Cauvery water use
1. As of now, KA is opening ~5000cusec to it's irrigation canal just from Kabini and KRS, saying KA will use the present
storage only for drinking is incorrect.
2. TN is opening ~5000cusec to Delta 1/n 3. Using TN NEM monsoon as excuse is misleading because Mettur local catchment receive less NEM monsoon than Delta. TN need water in Mettur for drinking water.
4. Many cities in TN depends on Cauvery for drinking water(i.e. Erode, Salem, Karur, Trichy, Tiruppur..etc) 2/n

Talk of delimitation is alarming for TN. In 1957, TN had 8.3% of seat in Lok Sabha(41/494), in 1976 TN had 7.2% of seats in Lok Sabha(39/543). If Centre come with 1 person 1 vote, the delimitation will reduce TN share to 5.5%. That is removing 24% of TN current representation 1/3

Argument of 1 person 1 vote can't be accepted in India, becoz in 1976, it is the govt of India that "mandated" states to control the population, froze the percentage of representation. Now, centre can't come and say April fool to the state that followed the mandate 2/3

#Karnataka has the beautiful names for their rivers - Some of them are
Shambhavi, Nethravathi, Kali, Aghanasini, Sharavathi, Gangavali, Tunga, Bhadra, Souparnika, Varahi, Arkavathy, Jayamangali, Kumaradhara, Mahadayi/Mandovi, Harangi, Hemavathi, Malathi, Yagachi, Lokapavani 1/3 Vedganga, Chakra, Vrishabhavathi, Kumudvathi, Swarnamukhi, Vegavathi, Panchaganavathi, Chitravathi, Shimsha, Kabini, Kaveri, Suvarnavathi, Suvarna, Sita,Papagni, Haridravathi, Gurupura, Nandini, Malaprabha, Bhima, Markendeya, Doni, Kagini, Uadayavara, Pennakini, Nugu, Taraka 2/3

This resort opened in 2018, it says, it spans an area of 100Acre, who gave the permission, to built such a large project on the lush green forest of Coorg, only god knows abt the things happening in Kodagu. Kodava's have no control over Kodagu anymore. #Kumaradhara

https://twitter.com/thehomestays/status/1670352998864764928

This resort situated near to Mallalli falls of Kumaradhara river. This resort sit near the shore of Kumaradhara tributary near Pushpagiri peak. Kumaradharais a tributary of Nethravathy that joins sea near southern Kudla (Mangalore)

The forgotten story of #Tamil's perished in the construction of 415km Siam(Thailand)–Burma Railway. During World War-II, Japan captured Thailand, to go forward into Burma, they built a railway using POW & indentured labor incl Malaysian plantation Tamil. Overall >1 Lakh died 1/4 On 14th Dec 1941 Japan took control of Siam(Thailand), wanting to capture Burma and parts of India. To help move their Army, they started a 415km railway. Construction began in 15 Sep 1942 in Burma, involving >2.5lakh poor labor from Burma, Thailand and Malaysian Tamil's 2/4

It is a mango season. India is the largest Mango producer in the world, it cultivates more than 1/3rd of Mango's in the world. India produces ~20 million tonnes of mango, cultivated in ~57 lakhs acres. Andhra and UP top the list, higher than the 2nd most cultivated country 1/5 This map shows mango cultivation across #TamilNadu for the FY 2020-2021. #Krishnagiri tops the state in the Cultivated area but only in 2020, Tiruvallur saw the highest mango cultivation at ~10Cr kg. Mango cultivation changes based on the Variety/climate/rainfall/heat..etc 2/5

Elephant 🐘herd crossing Marudhamalai temple steps. It is part of 4 U-shaped Valleys of Velliangiri range, an elephant habitat. Recently plastics, masks..etc were discovered in elephant dung in that area. Many Panchayats incl Somaiyampalayam dump their waste in the foothills 1/4 Coimbatore forest division (part of Coimbatore forest circle) has four important U-shaped Valleys
1. Booluvampatti Valley
2. Thadagam
3. Periyanaickenpalayam
4. Velliangadu
These are important wildlife corridors, and sources of Noyyal river, this area is fast urbanizing 2/4

The Palk Bay in #TamilNadu has the most abundant seagrass ecosystem in #India. Palk bay is a shallow lagoon-like sea, that allows sunlight to touch the sea floor, creating a fledging green sea grass forest. It supports many aquatic species including highly vulnerable Dugong 1/3 Lately, a lot of Aquaculture companies are started on the eco-sensitive shore of Palk Bay. Releasing the chemical pollutant into shore, it affects the wealth of seagrass & other ecosystem. @supriyasahuias @HemaShares , I req govt to regulate them better, restrict new facility 2/3

Stories of Tamils in Moreh town of Manipur is fascinating. Moreh is a multicultural town located on the Burma border. In 1962, Military Junta Ne Win, threw out Tamil's from Burma . Many Tamil's who came back to #TamilNadu, found it poor with no job, tried to go back to Burma 1/5 Rangoon Tamils who were born & brought up in the lush green field of Burma tried to re-enter Burma, but Burmese Army blocked them, so settled in the border jungles of Moreh in Manipur. In 1970 Moreh had >13000 Tamils, with their Burma connect, started dominating border trades 2/5