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11 months ago

Aayi Ammal gifted her whole heart & a piece of land

MADURAI: Learning acquired in one birth will help a person in seven”— The verse from Thirukkural inspired Aayi Ammal alias Poornam to donate over two acres of her land to the state government for upgrading a local school in Madurai. Poornam, a resident of Melur taluk, made headlines when she handed over 2 acres and 43 cents of land valued …

Janani Poornam

1 year ago

Pooranam Ammal, who gave away land for government school in Madurai, got her passport the day she applied

The Hindu

The Regional Passport Office in Madurai honoured Pooranam Ammal, who recently donated 1.52 acres of land for the upgradation of a government school in Madurai, by issuing her a fresh passport on the same day she applied for one, in recognition of her selfless service to society. In an event to mark International Women’s Day that fell on March 8, …

Madurai Pooranam Ammal Ammal

1 year, 5 months ago

Book Review: ‘The Bharathi I Knew’ by M.K. Yadhugiri Ammal recounts the life of Tamil poet Bharathiar during his exile in Puducherry

The Hindu

A biographical account of the visionary Tamil poet Subramania Bharathi during his exile in Puducherry. Rare insights As the daughter of Bharathiyar’s close associate Mandayam Srinivasachariyar, Yadhugiri Ammal had the opportunity to observe the somewhat eccentric genius at close quarters both as a child and as a grown woman. With such unrestricted access to Bharathiyar’s domestic life, Yadhugiri writes familiarly …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Promotor of Junior Kuppanna Kitchens succeeds in restraining nephew from using the word ‘Kuppanna’ in promotion materials

The Hindu

The promotor of Junior Kuppanna Kitchens Private Limited, K. Moorthy, who is one of the sons of Kuppusamy alias Kuppanna, has succeeded in restraining his paternal nephew G. Arun Kumar of Kuppanna Foods, from using the word ‘Kuppanna’ in advertising materials/brochures/pamphlets/menu cards and in their website’s address. Justice C. Saravanan also granted an interim injunction restraining Mr. Kumar from using …

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2 years ago

The Story of Courage and Conviction of Anjalai Ammal

News 18

Mahakavi Subramanian Bharathiyar praised Anjalai Ammal by saying “she has come into public life at a time when women are afraid to step out of the house.” The same lady was later hailed as ‘Queen Jhansi of South India’ by Mahatma Gandhi and respected by leaders like Rajaji and Kamaraj. Born in a weavers’ family in Tamil Nadu’s Cuddalore district …

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2 years ago

Kothainayaki Ammal: A Writer, Journalist, Storyteller and Much More

News 18

While travelling down memory lane, we find that there are so many unsung heroes of our pious land, who have contributed towards literary works, music, and freedom struggle, but have remained mostly unknown to the people of this era. A fan of Kothainayaki Ammal, S. Ramanathan Chettiar, a resident of Saigon then, was so moved by one of her novels …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Anjalai Ammal: a freedom fighter from Tamil Nadu who ought to be remembered more

The Hindu

Many made significant contributions at a great personal cost to India’s independence. Anjalai Ammal from Cuddalore, who took part in all major struggles organised by the Congress for more than two decades, falls into the second category. A young freedom fighter Jamadagni, who would become the first person to translate Das Kapital into Tamil, met Anjalai Ammal’s family during the …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Janaki Ammal, the nomad scientist

The Hindu

Edavaleth Kakkat Janaki Ammal was the first Indian woman to be awarded a Ph.D in the botanical sciences. Janaki Ammal, a Life 1897-1984, by Savithri Preetha Nair, 57, will likely be the first expansive archive-based analytical biography of an Asian woman scientist. Nair first came across Janaki’s name among the list of members for the year 1932 of the Eugenics …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Madras High Court Monthly Digest: May 2022 [Citations 192 to 232]

Live Law

Citations: 2022 LiveLaw 192 To 2022 LiveLaw 232 NOMINAL INDEX Agavai v. The State represented by Inspector of Police, 2022 LiveLaw 192 Case Title: M.Ani v. The Government of Tamilnadu and others, 2022 LiveLaw 193 Hema Jwaalini and others v. The Commissioner of Police and Others, 2022 LiveLaw 194 Nakshatra Bind A.K v. State of Tamil Nadu and Others, 2022 …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Case AG Perarivalan Arputham Ammal On Being Released From Jail

ABP News

Chennai: The good should survive, the bad should fall and its nature, said Perarivalan, one of the accused in the Rajiv Gandhi Assassination case who was released by the Supreme Court on Wednesday. Addressing the media persons, Perarivalan speaking for the first time after his release quoted the Thirukural 'அவ்விய நெஞ்சத்தான் ஆக்கமும் செவ்வியான் கேடும் நினைக்கப்படும்' and said it's the nature …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Padma Bhushan to Pichai, Nadella Shows Why India Must Stop Viewing Itself Through Western Prism

News 18

For a country whose majority religion is Hinduism, we sure don’t seem to see things in “shades of grey”. Let’s consider people like Meenakshi Ammal, Pushpesh Pant, Jiggs Kalra, Tarla Dalal and Jacob Sahaya Kumar. The first literally wrote the bible of Tambrahm cooking; imagine a woman who published her cookbook in 1951 — India’s own Mrs Beeton. Note how …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Does Jai Bhim deserve the backlash? The controversies the movie faces

Op India

The Kollywood flick ‘Jai Bhim’, a new kid in the block. Following that, when the calendar’s ‘Agni Kalasam’ image was changed to ‘Hindu Goddess,’ numerous Hindus mistook the film crew for causing injustice to all Hindus, reigniting the controversy. Even though the film’s premise was social justice, their objective was utterly failed because Parvathi Ammal, who still lives on the …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Jai Bhim controversy: Police protection for Suriya, actor donates Rs 15 lakh to Parvathy Ammal

India TV News

With the stand-off between the PMK and actor Suriya intensifying over the issue of the latter's Tamil film 'Jai Bhim' allegedly insulting the Vanniyar community, the Tamil Nadu government provided police protection to Suriya. Meanwhile, actor Suriya presented bank documents pertaining to a fixed deposit for a sum of Rs 15 lakh to Parvathy Ammal, on whose life the film …

Tamil Suriya Lakh Actor Parvathy Police Protection Rs 15 Lakh

3 years, 6 months ago

Remembering guru Mayavaram Saraswathi Ammal

The Hindu

The students of Mayavaram Sarawathi Ammal, popularly known as Mayavaram Papa, organised some special events along with Bilvamusic Academy and a few other organisations to mark their guru’s birth centenary. Saraswathi Ammal also took lessons in vocal music from Mayavaram Venugopala Iyer. She also played the flute for well-known dancers Padma Subrahmanyam and Vyjayantimala Bali With her love for the …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Mridangam vidwan Arunprakash’s new musical venture

The Hindu

Bho Shambo,’ a song from a Maharajapuram Santhanam album that hit the charts decades ago, still remains a hot favourite with musicians and audiences. Now, Krishnan’s son, K. Arunprakash, a well-known mridangam exponent and composer, is pushing the boundaries of the music he grew up with. About 30 years after R. Sundaravalli Ammal, a housewife-turned-composer, published her songs in the …

Music Krishnan Maharajapuram Santhanam Sundaravalli Ammal Arunprakash

3 years, 9 months ago

Tamil Nadu: Campaign demanding release of Rajiv Gandhi assassination convicts launched on Twitter

India Today

A Twitter campaign has been launched in support of the release of the Rajiv Gandhi assassination convicts. Several celebrities and politicians are now joining a Twitter storm to tweet about the release of the 7 convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. The hashtags used are #31yearsofInjustice #StandWithArputhamAmmal Arputham Ammal is the mother of Perarivalan, a convict in the Rajiv …

Tamil Nadu Assassination Gandhi Twitter Release Seven Stalin

5 years, 2 months ago

Elderly couple gets married at old-age home where they first met. Twitter is in love with love

India TV News

Elderly couple gets married at old-age home where they first met. Twitter is in love with love Lakshmi Ammal had the most unexpected meeting with Kochaniyan Menon at the government-run old-age home in Trissur. They fell in love as they spent time at an old-age home, and wanted to solemnise their relationship through marriage. Lakshmi Ammal had the most unexpected …

Love Twitter Trissur

5 years, 11 months ago

Women of substance in a closed society

Deccan Chronicle

In a polyglot country such as India, where so many primary languages and their innumerable offshoots abound, literature in the vernacular has often been restricted to those few who understand their mother tongue and are literate enough to enjoy the reading process. It is under these challenging circumstances that one commends a new book in English, just released, of Tamil …

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6 years ago

Bismilla Begum cooks nutritious meals for new mothers at the Primary Health Centre in Tondiarpet Chennai

The Hindu

For the past 11 years, the cooker whistle from S Bismilla Begum’s house in Jeeva Nagar has been the first sound that rends the pre-dawn air at Korukkupet, Chennai. Every ingredient is fresh, and Bismilla does everything herself; she can’t take chances, for the food will be served to women who’ve just delivered babies, and to those who’ve had C-sections …

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6 years, 7 months ago

Karunanidhi's family tree

The Hindu

Here is the family tree of DMK chief M.Karunanidhi Shanmuga Sundarathammal Periyanayagi Karunanidhi family tree Murasoli Maran Former Union Minister Murasoli Selvam Works in Sun Network Dayalu Ammal M.K. Stalin DMK working president Dayanidhi Maran Ex-Union Minister Arulnithi Actor Poonguzhali Karunanidhi family tree Shanmuga Sundarathammal Periyanayagi Murasoli Maran Former Union Minister Murasoli Selvam Works in Sun Network Dayalu Ammal Anbukarasi …

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6 years, 7 months ago

M Karunanidhi: The man who wore many hats

India Today

M Karunanidhi was born on June 3 in 1924 in a village in Thiruvarur district. Karunanidhi led the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party for decades | File photo/IndiaToday Archives Karunanidhi in 1975 strongly opposed the then PM Indira Gandhi for imposing Emergency which even resulted in the Centre dissolving the Tamil Nadu government in 1976. Karunanidhi largely stayed away from active …

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6 years, 7 months ago

Karunanidhi health: Medical bulletin paints a grim picture; cadre keep vigil

The Hindu

As news of DMK patriarch M. Karunanidhi’s health suffering a fresh setback spread on Monday, party workers and leaders thronged the Kauvery Hospital, bringing traffic to a halt in and around Alwarpet. The arrival of Dayalu Ammal, Mr. Karunanidhi’s wife, at the hospital strengthened the rumours about the leader’s deteriorating health condition that were already doing the rounds on social …

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7 years ago

The first Indian woman botanist, E K Janaki Ammal, ought to be more widely known for her huge contributions to science. But she remains unknown within the country and outside academic circles and even

The Hindu

: Just a fortnight before the International Women’s Day, the John Innes Centre in Norfolk, UK, announced a new scholarship for post-graduate students from developing countries in honour of an Indian woman botanist. A heart warming gesture from an institution abroad, but may be India should have done something similar for the country’s first home grown woman scientist, who went …

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9 years, 9 months ago

ED says A Raja illegally granted 2G spectrum to ineligible firms-IndiaTV News

India TV News

New Delhi: Enforcement Directorate on Monday told a special court that former Telecom Minister A Raja had "illegally" granted 2G spectrum licences to ineligible firms for which Rs 200 crore was allegedly transferred to Kalaignar TV, owned by DMK supremo M Karunanidhi's family. Commencing final arguments in the 2G scam-related money laundering case, special public prosecutor Anand Grover alleged that …

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Aayi Ammal gifted her whole heart & a piece of land

Pooranam Ammal, who gave away land for government school in Madurai, got her passport the day she applied

Book Review: ‘The Bharathi I Knew’ by M.K. Yadhugiri Ammal recounts the life of Tamil poet Bharathiar during his exile in Puducherry

Promotor of Junior Kuppanna Kitchens succeeds in restraining nephew from using the word ‘Kuppanna’ in promotion materials

The Story of Courage and Conviction of Anjalai Ammal

Kothainayaki Ammal: A Writer, Journalist, Storyteller and Much More

Anjalai Ammal: a freedom fighter from Tamil Nadu who ought to be remembered more

Janaki Ammal, the nomad scientist

Madras High Court Monthly Digest: May 2022 [Citations 192 to 232]

Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Case AG Perarivalan Arputham Ammal On Being Released From Jail

Padma Bhushan to Pichai, Nadella Shows Why India Must Stop Viewing Itself Through Western Prism

Does Jai Bhim deserve the backlash? The controversies the movie faces

Jai Bhim controversy: Police protection for Suriya, actor donates Rs 15 lakh to Parvathy Ammal

Remembering guru Mayavaram Saraswathi Ammal

Mridangam vidwan Arunprakash’s new musical venture

Tamil Nadu: Campaign demanding release of Rajiv Gandhi assassination convicts launched on Twitter

Elderly couple gets married at old-age home where they first met. Twitter is in love with love

Women of substance in a closed society

Bismilla Begum cooks nutritious meals for new mothers at the Primary Health Centre in Tondiarpet Chennai

Karunanidhi's family tree

M Karunanidhi: The man who wore many hats

Karunanidhi health: Medical bulletin paints a grim picture; cadre keep vigil

The first Indian woman botanist, E K Janaki Ammal, ought to be more widely known for her huge contributions to science. But she remains unknown within the country and outside academic circles and even

ED says A Raja illegally granted 2G spectrum to ineligible firms-IndiaTV News