பொன்னை,உயர்வை, புகழை விரும்பிடும் என்னை கவலைகள் தின்ன தகாதென்று.
When I desire wealth, fame and power, let not despair haunt me, I surrender unto thee.
bharathi
@dravidasishu Azhwars have done it.
Parai as a main musical instrument.
Nappinnai exclusive to tamil land
Bull taming and kudakoothu as sports
Kannan and no where mention of Krishna..
Let us be practical as to what integrates Tamils as hindus.
Whenever I cross the road between Karur &Namakkal,I eagerly wait to have the glimpse of a small hillock, where a 2000 year old 3 line recording has attested the lineage of the then kings, who were also documented in the songs of Sangam Corpus.
எங்கள் தந்தையர் நாடென்ற பேச்சினிலே
@Rangooshkiclub Please do not indulge in such things.
No difference in the type of symbolism where they killed a goat in road.
Let them talk and expose themselves and prove why Anna malai has rightfully left BJP.
aha, though I stay now in Salem, part of Kongu belt, my roots are from Sivagangai- Manamadurai dry belt where my forefathers had to migrate in search of work.
Ishtathukku..
Most of the Annamalai supporters is from the Kongu Gounder community.
If he starts the new party it will be end up like PMK, VCK & Kongunadu Makkal Desiya Katchi.
Agree or Disagree
Happy Birthday @annamalai_k .
The one politician who could draw me out of my OPD that day,when he came to Salem for En Man En Makkal yaththirai.. some 20 feet outside the human chain they formed.
Before him, my brush towards politicos was just to cast vote on polling day.
@Randeep_Sisodia And thats why we feel , let Annamalai build his base away from TNBJP.
Annamalai is too accomodative to DBJP people like them, and maintains a respectable relationship with them.
What is needed is ruthless indifference to them, which is possible only if he is not in BJP
When Annamalai first entered Tamil Nadu politics, I dismissed him like most people did. Just another guy trying his luck. Politicians come and go. What's different this time?
But then I started paying attention.
Here was someone who could address a Harvard audience and then speak at a Coimbatore street corner meeting and connect in both places. Not perform. Connect. That's rare. That's actually very rare. And what made it work was not polish or strategy. It was that he was saying the same thing in both places. No different version for a different crowd. Just the truth, as he saw it.
That honesty hit differently.
The more I watched, the clearer it became. Engineering degree. IIM MBA. IPS. None of that fell into his lap. He came from very little and went after each of those with a stubbornness that only people who've had to fight for things understand. And then, at the peak of a career most people would protect with their life, he walked away to do something harder and far less certain. Not because it made sense on paper. Because it was the right thing to do.
What struck me most though wasn't any single speech or moment. It was the consistency. Every interview, every rally, every difficult question, the man said the same things. Walked the same talk. He did not dodge. He did not flip. He did not say what the room wanted to hear. In politics, that kind of integrity is not just rare. It is almost unheard of.
And then there is the intelligence. Not just the kind that gets you through IIM or IPS. The kind that lets you read a room, break down a complex policy issue in plain Tamil, and then turn around and articulate it in English at an international forum without losing the thread. He moves between worlds without losing himself in any of them.
Put all of that together and you start to see what is actually in front of you. A person who is honest, hardworking, bold enough to speak uncomfortable truths, grounded enough to sit with a farmer in a village and sharp enough to hold his own anywhere else. That combination does not come around often.
Now, the recent events in BJP have pushed Annamalai toward building something of his own. And honestly, Annamalai 2.0 might be the version Tamil Nadu actually needs.
Because look at the ground reality right now. TVK came in on the promise of change and is already starting to look like a louder, younger variant of the same old Dravidian playbook. The MLAs and ministers being fielded make you quietly miss the DMK.
AIADMK is hollowing out fast. Loyalty was always its glue, and that glue is gone.
And DMK, stung by its election losses, has shown zero appetite for self-reflection.
Every major player is failing the state. And people know it.
And yet someone will still ask, "Is there space for Annamalai and a new party in Tamil Nadu politics?"
That is the wrong question.
The right question is this: Is there space for an honest, hardworking, ethical, intelligent politician with real ground-level connect and genuine integrity?
Once you frame it that way, the answer becomes obvious.
Tamil Nadu does not have a shortage of politics. It has a shortage of politicians worth believing in. That is exactly the gap Annamalai, on his own terms, with his own platform, can fill.
The best chapters are always written from scratch.
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