Editorial
In four days’ time, on August 15, 2018, we will be celebrating our seventysecond Independence Day. And within less than a year the country will be holding its next general elections to elect the seventeenth Lok Sabha.
Today itself has (...)
ISSN : 0542-1462
RNI No. : 7064/62
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Burying Karunanidhi
16 August, by Badri RainaBury him where you will
Masters of the day,
You cannot ever bury
His work, his legacy,
He took no help from god
For his mission among the legion
Of the oppressed; his godless humanism
Was more spiritual than religion.
His school-drop-out pen (...)
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