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Defections defy democracy
The study connected Union Minister Bhupender Yadav’s gathering with rebel Trinamool Congress MPs raises troubling ethical questions.
While governmental dialog is morganatic successful a democracy, outreach to legislators who person openly defied their enactment inevitably creates perceptions of encouraging defections and governmental horse-trading. The anti-defection instrumentality was enacted precisely to sphere electoral mandates and forestall governments and parties from being destabilised done inducements. What is much disturbing is the normalisation of specified practices crossed enactment lines. Voters elite representatives based connected enactment platforms, not idiosyncratic governmental bargains.
If antiauthoritarian mandates tin beryllium altered done post-election manoeuvring, nationalist religion successful institutions volition steadily erode.
Gopalaswamy J.,
Chennai
Bharathiraja
Veteran movie manager Bharathiraja acceptable a caller inclination successful Tamil cinema by bringing agrarian themes and settings to the forefront. This displacement attracted audiences of each kinds, arsenic the colony flavour was some caller and refreshing. His directorial debut, 16 Vayathinile, was not lone a immense occurrence but besides transformed Tamil cinema to a sizeable extent, compelling producers and directors to deliberation differently. In that sense, helium was a existent trendsetter. One should besides not place the information that Ilaiyaraaja received his breakthrough with the aforesaid film. None of these artists looked backmost thereafter.
V. Lakshmanan,
Tirupur, Tamil Nadu
Alongside K. Balachander and Balu Mahendra, Bharathiraja helped signifier modern Tamil film-making. Through classics specified arsenic 16 Vayathinile, Muthal Mariyathai, and Alaigal Oivathillai, helium brought the tone of agrarian Tamil Nadu to the surface with authenticity and emotion. He besides introduced and nurtured galore talented actors who became superstars. I fondly retrieve asking for his concern paper during a meeting; his reply was unforgettable: “Bharathiraja does not request a concern card.”
A.P. Thiruvadi,
Chennai
At a clip erstwhile Tamil cinema was dialogue-oriented and an hold of play enacting, Bharathiraja, successful the 1970s, changed this by telling the communicative done the camera. It was helium who transformed the creation of absorption with camera frames. Bharathiraja-Ilaiyaraaja-SPB songs were the bid of the time successful the 1980s.
A.V. Narayanan,
Chennai
The manager was an exponent of colony drama, bringing authentic agrarian narratives and realistic characters to the mainstream. His timeless classics person reshaped the ocular connection of determination cinema.
C.K.S. Maniam,
Chennai
Bharathiraja’s films, enriched by Ilaiyaraaja’s music, were an integral portion of my growing-up years. I inactive retrieve the excitement of watching his movies with neighbours aft we bought our archetypal tv acceptable and aboriginal a VCR. By taking cinema retired of the workplace and into the villages and unfastened landscapes of Tamil Nadu, helium gave audiences similar maine a profound consciousness of transportation to the satellite astir us. Like Mann Vasanai, his stories, profoundly rooted successful emotions and the Tamil soil, volition unrecorded connected successful our hearts forever.
Ananthi Santhaiyan,
Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh
Some film-makers marque movies, but a precise fewer alteration the dynamics and magnitude of cinema forever. Needless to say, Bharathiraja belonged to the latter.
R. Sivakumar,
Chennai
NCERT books not available
The caller world league has already begun, yet galore students are inactive incapable to get the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) textbooks that they require. Most section bookstores study that the books are retired of stock, and students are being asked to hold respective weeks for caller supplies. As a result, galore students are falling down successful their studies and facing difficulties successful completing their homework and assignments. Some students person been forced to trust connected borrowed books oregon photocopies.
Preetham C.,
Bengaluru
Pilgrim welfare
I was successful Tiruvannamalai connected June 4. As a 70-year-old, I had to basal successful a queue for hours to person darshan of Lord Arunachala. Though abstracted queues are reportedly disposable for elder citizens, nary signboard indicating this was prominently displayed, nor did immoderate temple worker usher me. After the agelong wait, I was brusquely told to determination connected by a young antheral who was the property of my grandson. Although wall-mounted fans had been installed on the queue, nary of them was functioning. Even to scope the antagonistic issuing ₹50 tickets for peculiar darshan, 1 had to basal successful enactment for astir two-and-a-half hours, with nary proviso for seating, dissimilar astatine Tirupati. With a increasing fig of devotees from neighbouring States contributing to the temple’s expanding revenue, determination is simply a request for improvements successful facilities. Another contented is the exorbitant fares charged by auto-rickshaw drivers.
V. Jayaraman,
Chennai
