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    Deputy Chief Minister and finance minister O. Panneerselvam presenting the Budget for 2020-21 in the State Assembly, at Secretariat in Chennai on Friday. Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami is also seen. (DC)Nation
    Tamil Nadu Budget: Growth thrust amid ballooning deficit

    Major outlays for agri, water resources, health, urban infra.

    14 Feb 2020 8:09 PM

    The Greatest Odia Stories Ever Told, Selected and Translated by Leelawati Mohapatra, Paul St-Pierre & K K Mohapatra - Aleph Book Company, New Delhi, 2019, (Rs 699/-).Lifestyle
    A rich anthology of stories from Odisha mirror many worlds in one text

    ‘The Sanyasi’ by Reba Ray, which is said to be the first modern Odia short story by a woman writer in 1899.

    8 Dec 2019 8:13 PM

    T.N. SESHAN (1932 - 2019) A TRIBUTE.Nation
    A man of many parts, best known for electoral reforms

    His untiring efforts to clean up the electoral system, was undoubtedly Seshan-'s greatest contribution to Indian...

    11 Nov 2019 8:29 PM

    Professor Rajendra Swaroop BhatnagarNation
    Prof R S Bhatnagar: The joys and sadness in the journey of a humane...

    To many of his students of Philosophy, including this writer, it is a deep, personal loss.

    10 Nov 2019 8:54 PM

    Nani Palkhivala - A Miscellany, Essays containing Selections from the Uncollected Palkhivala and Other Essays, Suresh Balakrishnan, Published by Old Madras Press, Chennai, first hardbound edition, 2019 (Rs 480)Nation
    Nani Palkhivala’s basic structure doctrine shield against rising...

    This is one insightful message that gently wafts through Palkhivala’s uncollected writings.

    3 Nov 2019 8:40 PM

    Subramanian Swamy’s economic views come full circle from HarvardNation
    Subramanian Swamy’s economic views come full circle from Harvard

    Besides turning around the economy, he argues for an ‘alternative ideological thrust’ to India’s economic policy.

    15 Sept 2019 8:33 PM

    Did early death of Jinnah’s wife dash hopes for Hindu-Muslim unity?Lifestyle
    Did early death of Jinnah’s wife dash hopes for Hindu-Muslim unity?

    For almost a decade, Jinnah resisted the idea of partition; in political eclipse, he decided to settle in England and...

    1 Sept 2019 9:51 PM

    How the ‘Khan Market’ lingo has been part of a modernising IndiaLifestyle
    How the ‘Khan Market’ lingo has been part of a modernising India

    Kamleshwar, also a Sahitya Akademi award winner, first published this Hindi short story first in 1963.

    18 Aug 2019 8:34 PM

    DMK weathers the storm in Vellore Lok Sabha pollNation
    DMK weathers the storm in Vellore Lok Sabha poll

    The relevance of the issues on which the DMK continued to fight prevailed over other sentiments, giving the opposition...

    11 Aug 2019 11:59 PM

    Enough if info-box removed from George Hart’s paper: Avvai NatarajanNation
    Enough if info-box removed from George Hart’s paper: Avvai Natarajan

    It is a warm-up ‘Q and A box’ at the beginning of the essay that seems to have created this misimpression.

    8 Aug 2019 8:29 PM

    Thakur from Ballia: Biography in makingLifestyle
    Thakur from Ballia: Biography in making

    The authors also speak of how and why the then Karunanidhi-headed DMK government in Tamil Nadu was dismissed.

    28 July 2019 9:36 PM

    Poomani - Rediscovering a Tamil Modernist WriterLifestyle
    Poomani - Rediscovering a Tamil Modernist Writer

    An old signboard ‘Pandian Grama Bank’ telescopes one into a socialist past of egalitarian promise, easy and...

    23 July 2019 10:12 PM

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