K Venkataramanan

@spinesurgeon @pearsonlenekar Yes. The second proviso to Article 94 of the Constitution (for LS Speaker) and Art.179 (for Assembly Speaker) make it clear.

Till 10th May, Mr.Appavu was the speaker New Speaker was (s)elected on 12th only So This notification is correct Even after the govt goes, Speaker stays I distinctly remember Mr.Tamil kudimagan going in Siren Car during govt rule after DMK Govt was dismissed in 1991 When I asked, I was told the above rules

Appavu is not the TN Assembly speaker. The Gazette notification declaring the Tiruchy East Assembly constituency vacant mentions the name of the Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker as "Appavu". Instead of JCD Prabhakar.

As far as I could see, she appears to be wearing a senior counsel's gown. Is she a designated senior advocate?

@PoojaPrasanna4 The Kerala CM will be like the U S President. Long gap between election and beginning of his term. And only four years of running the administration.

At this rate, the 5 year term of UDF will be over before Congress announces the Kerala CM.

@legaljournalist Only 231 members will vote. Three votes -- Speaker, vacancy after Vijay giving up one seat and of one MLA barred by HC -- won't be cast. So, 116 enough to win.

TVK alliance literally hanging by the thread. With this, they have 119 MLAs in the assembly, just “one” more than the majority mark. And the MLA whose election has been challenged won by “one” vote against DMK candidate. “One” is the flavour of the season.

@imranhindu @vijaythehindu Did the EC accept that one postal vote was wrongly despatched?

BREAKING Justices L. Victoria Gowri and N. Senthilkumar of #MadrasHighCourt restrain TVK MLA Seenivasa Sethupathy from taking part in the trust vote in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly until further orders. Orders passed on a writ petition filed by DMK former Minister K.R. Periakaruppan who claimed to have lost to TVK MLA Seenivasa Sethupathy by a single vote because of two constituencies with the same name 'Tirupattur' in Tamil Nadu. @THChennai Backgrounder👇 thehindu.com/news/national/…

@karthik2k2 @maddy1293 It's very simple. Just saying 'kerosene oil' fast. The 'o' is swallowed, while 'ker' becomes 'kre'.

@maddy1293 This one is more complex.. no idea how the name came about 😀

If you hear some Tamil person saying baaltoil (பால்டாயில்), know that it means Pholidol malathion, a pesticide.

Sir David Attenborough and a boy from Kanniyakumari Few people live to see their centenary. Sir David Attenborough is among those fortunate enough to do so. The advent of television channels introduced me to him. In many ways, I feel we share common interests. But I was born in a small village in Kanniyakumari and educated in Tamil, my mother tongue, though I was deeply passionate about birds, animals, and fish. My father often warned my brothers and me when we poked our hands into holes in trees searching for parrots, mynas, and other birds. “One day, you will become victims of a snake bite,” he would say. He had reason to worry. His first cousin had died of a snake bite after putting his hand into a crevice where a viper had trapped a bird in its jaws. I, too, have climbed down into many wells in search of sparrow chicks. Sparrows often preferred the crevices inside wells for nesting. My brothers, friends, and I were frequently ridiculed by others. “These boys are always catching fish, chasing birds, and climbing trees,” people would say. By the time I joined an undergraduate course in Botany, I already knew a great deal about plants, birds, insects, and fish. But I could not express my ideas properly in English. Sir Attenborough’s documentaries on pitcher plants were a revelation. I already knew that plants suffering from nitrogen deficiency trapped insects to compensate for the lack of nutrients, but I did not have the language skills to explain it in English. When I listened to him speak about the domineering character of the giant water lily, or Victoria lily, I was enthralled. It also brought back memories of the teachers who had taught me about the plant. I also knew that eels were no longer migrating to the sea for reproduction, even though my Zoology teacher insisted that they still did. My lack of fluency in English prevented me from disputing her claim. I knew that dams and other barriers were obstructing their migration. I had seen juvenile eels in the irrigation tanks of my village. They were born in freshwater and grew there itself. My brother kept rabbits and pigeons, and we reared many chickens at home. At my aunt’s house, there were buffaloes, and we used to take them for baths. I would often ride them. Yet, despite not being afraid of snakes, I was terrified of the leeches in the water. When I shared these experiences with the late Dr. Robert Grub, an ornithologist and student of Salim Ali, he remarked, “What a wonderful childhood you had.” But growing up, I was mostly ridiculed and discouraged. In our world, what mattered was the marks you scored in school and college.

@jarshadnk Not only among actors. It was there between directors, music directors and lyricists too.

I was telling friends the other day that rivalry might be the single most important ingredient in Tamil cinema. This has been true for nearly a century, going all the way back to MK Thyagaraja Bhagavathar versus PU Chinnappa in the late 1930s, and well before MGR and Sivaji Ganesan split Tamil Nadu into two distinct camps. In Tamil Nadu, you don't become truly massive unless lakhs of people are rooting for you and lakhs more are rooting against you. That friction is what keeps the conversation alive every single day, in tea kadais and college canteens, on X timelines and WhatsApp groups. It is what turns actors into something larger than actors. MGR needed Sivaji. Rajini needed Kamal. Vijay needed Ajith. Not because they were enemies. Many of them respected each other deeply. (Rajini and Kamal are very close friends). But audiences needed sides. Fan clubs needed identity. They needed the debates, the comparisons, the FDFS wars, the celebrations and even come up with creative excuses for celluloid disasters. Tamil cinema has always run on this emotional voltage. I think this is what a lot of actors miss today. They chase universal acceptance, wanting everyone to like them. But in Tamil Nadu, if everyone mildly likes you, you plateau. You may become respected, even admired, but superstardom needs tribalism. Without Ajith, Vijay may never have become the cultural force he became. The rivalry sharpened everything: fan clubs, opening-day numbers, image-building, online wars, even political speculation. Every Ajith release made Vijay fans work harder, and the other way around. Suriya and Vikram are hugely talented and genuinely respected. But they never really had that defining rival ecosystem around them. No giant emotional divide, no mass-scale “namma aaluh versus avanga aaluh” (us versus them) energy. And I think that limited how culturally explosive their stardom could become, regardless of how good their films were. Tamil cinema does not grow through admiration alone. It grows through rivalry, like it always has.

@MaridhasAnswers Only members present and voting. Total votes 232. Without Speaker 231. So, 116 is majority mark even if everyone votes.

திருச்சி கிழக்கு தொகுதி MLA பதவியை ராஜனாமா செய்தார் விஜய்.. தற்போது 107 MLA. இரண்டு நாளில் நடக்கவுள்ள பெரும்பான்மைக்கான வாக்கெடுப்பில் திருப்பத்தூர் MLA வாக்கு பதிவு செய்வது கடினம். வழக்கு உள்ளதால் MLAவாக தொடரலாம் ஆனால் வாக்கெடுப்பில் பொதுவாக செலுத்த முடியாது... (மத்தியபிரதேஷ் முகேஸ் மல்கோதரா MLA வழக்கில் நீதிமன்றம் வழிகாட்டியது அப்படியே).. ஆக 106 MLA மட்டுமே.. விசிக 2 , கம்யூனிஸ்ட் 2+2 , காங்கிரஸ் 5 மொத்தம் 117.. IUML இல்லை என்றால் பெரும்பான்மை இல்லாமல் அரசு தோல்வியை தழுவும்.. அதாவது திமுக அசைக்க நினைத்தால் இந்த அரசு விழுந்துவிடும் நிலையில் உள்ளது..

At the swearing-in ceremony of BJP's Suvendhu Adhikari as the Chief Minister of West Bengal, only National Anthem was played. No, Vande Mataram. But an order from MHA does exist on Vande Mataram should be sung

@thambitech @sivaetb mha.gov.in/sites/default/…

Home ministry order of February has made it mandatory in functions attended by President and Governors, says my senior colleague @kv_ramanan

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@sivaetb Home ministry order of February has made it mandatory in functions attended by President and Governors

#TamilNadu: "Though Mr. Stalin is said to be firm that supporting an AIADMK govt would be politically untenable, senior DMK leaders were reportedly pressuring him to consider it" @kolappan reports on an urgent meeting convened by MK Stalin today @the_hindu thehindu.com/news/national/…

A short post on the TN governor's actions and on TVK's bid to form the new government in the state: suhrithparthasarathy.substack.com/p/trust-the-ho…

The importance given to the floor test in Bommai was in contra-distiction to the parading of MLAs before the Governor. What was denounced was a headcount in Raj Bhavan. It does not mean that the Governor cannot ask for enough letters of support to cross the majority mark. 18/end

There is a misconception that the Bommai case judgment’s declaration that the Assembly floor is the only place to prove majority precludes the Governor from ascertaining whether a claimant is in a position to command a majority. 17/n

There’s little surprise that Governor Rajendra Arlekar’s delay in inviting Vijay, as the leader of the single largest party, to form the government is facing criticism. However, such criticism shouldn’t be facile. Let us examine the logic behind his position. A long thread. 1/n