Chennai Metro Aerial View

This is the aerial view of Chennai(Madras), India. The city with a population of 7.06 milion is the fourth largest city in India. Besides being the "Detroit of India", Chennai also hosts handful of IT biggies like TCS, Infosys, Wipro, EDS, CTS, HCL, etc., For the FY 05-06 The total IT exports from the state of Tamil Nadu to which Chennai is the capital is RS 13500 Crores....

Denver Metro Skyline

Mahajan's demise

The sudden and tragic demise of Mr.Pramod Mahajan is a real loss to the country. Mr. Mahajan has joined the list of "Leaders Lost...Early" with Rajesh Pilor and Madhavarao scindhia. May God comfort his family in this time of sorrow.

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With the election date fast approaching the power battle is getting dirty as the day passes by. The 2006 election is not different from erstwhile elections. This time the contest is three cornered with AIADMK Front, DMK Front and the actor-turned Vijayakanth's DMDK each of them vying to taste success in their constituencies. The past five year regime of Ms.Jayalalitha had been a bitter experience for a common man. The present government has not come up with any constructive ways and means to improve the life standard of the majority rural mass of the state. Instead Ms. Jaya's government has to some succeeded in foiling some golden plans envisaged and implemented by the erstwhile DMK government. Any economical progress that has happened in the past five years should be attributed to the overall growth that is taking place in the whole country thanks to opening up our economy in 1991. Tamil Nadu has been a key beneficiary since then being a state with inherent infrastructure and talented man power. The life standard of the poor people has not improved in any way with inflation sky-rocketing purchasing power of one section of people keeps increasing. There is a total inequality across the state with rural part of the state still reeling under all sorts of problem. There have been no aggresive plan or steps envisaged to improve the industrial competitiveness of the state. Unemployment rate keeps increasing and Illiteray rate has not improved anymore in the last five years. In other way all section of the society right from have been a victim of this government.

1. Students - in the issue of demolishing Queen Mary's college. Lots of students across participated in various agitations and got hurt by biased police action against them.
2. Doctors - on the making doctors responsible for any deaths caused and their subsequent resorting to strike and all sorts of eventual happenings.
3. Government Employees - Democracy always give the people the right to protest against any oppresion of concern in a peaceful way. Termination of few thousand people doesn't in any way guarantee basic rights to indian citizens.
4. Peasants were put into trouble when the government decided that the Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation would stop purchasing their products(like rice).
5. Lawyers protested against the abnormal hike in the court fee which will affect the comman man who approaches the court.

We can keep piling complaints against the present government. And also being aggressive doesn't mean to being anti-people. Aggressiveness should be properly used to get things done from Central Governement and also to serve the public effectively. To be very precise the present government has in no way done anything progressive that could take the downtrodden from the traps of poverty and also in all other fronts as well hasn't done anything. Even I would have been the Chief minister I would have run such a very usual government ofcourse without like those above-mentioned cruelites against people atleast. It is a real good idea to give chance to other front led by DMK.

The third option actor Vijayakanth's DMDK looks dynamic but lacks strategic vision. Mr. Vijaykanth also showcases his immaturiy by claiming to become the Chief Minister after starting party just over three months ago. We always welcome poeple who are willing to serve our society. To serve people and society one ideally need not be a CM of a state, One can serve in different other ways. Vijayakanth claims to be not an aspirer of power politics but he keeps mentioning becoming CM. I would think of voting to him in viruddachalam where he contest but nowhere.