Your thoughts and emotions are your ghosts. You create them, then they go out of control and haunt you. This is a badly directed horror movie. #SadhguruQuotes
Best wishes to everyone on World Environment Day. I would like to applaud all those passionate about environmental conservation. This is a day to reaffirm our commitment to protecting our environment and furthering growth that is sustainable. Numerous efforts by our Government over the last decade highlight our work in this direction. Some of India’s key successes include expanding green cover and a rise in the population of several animals. The people of India have shown how collective efforts, policies, belief in science and innovation can improve our environment.
“Manufactured heroes vs real leaders.” This one is genuinely rich 😂
A man who did door-to-door padayatras across the state in brutal summer heat, village by village, without a film release to ride is manufactured. A man whose political entry was greeted by fan associations converting overnight into party units, with cutouts already pre-ordered is organic. Sure. That framing makes complete sense 😂
The real problem with your post isn’t that you love Vijay. Love him all you want. He earned it. The problem is that you’re using Vijay as a ceiling, a way to tell other people that the room is full, the bar is too high, don’t bother showing up. That’s not admiration. That’s gatekeeping democracy with a fan poster.
Politics isn’t a box office competition where only the biggest opening weekend gets to govern. It’s a long, grinding, unglamorous process of contesting, losing, rebuilding, recalibrating, and trying again. Annamalai lost. He’s starting over outside the BJP structure, which, whatever you think of him, takes a certain kind of nerve. You can disagree with his politics. You can question his timing. You can debate his ideology. But dismissing the attempt itself? That’s not political commentary. That’s just a different kind of hype.
Tamil Nadu has always produced politicians who surprised everyone. Men and women who had no fanbase, no film legacy, no inherited voter bank and still moved the state. They didn’t need to be phenomena. They needed to be right, at the right moment, with the right argument. That window opens for people you least expect. It has before. It will again.
Vijay is remarkable. Genuinely. But remarkable people don’t make everyone else irrelevant. They raise the standard. They don’t lower the gate. If Vijay himself believed what you’re preaching, he would have stayed on screen where the numbers were guaranteed. He didn’t. He took the risk. He entered uncertain territory. He faced the possibility of failure publicly. That’s exactly what Annamalai is doing now, on his own terms, with his own bet.
The difference between them is ideology, timing, and yes, scale. Not courage. Not the right to try.
So keep celebrating Vijay. He deserves it. But stop using his height to measure everyone else out of the conversation. That’s not perspective. That’s just fandom with a hashtag.
I don't remember a Governor coming on live TV to explain why he is taking a decision.
Rajendra Arlekar, the Tamil Nadu Governor, is doing that for transparency. I saw him on two different TV channels.
Something new in Indian politics!
Tamil parents will veto your career choices, reject your love marriage, and demand a 10-year ROI presentation before buying a new TV, but will casually hand over their state to Vijay just because their kid made a puppy face.
Make it make sense 🤷🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️
Thank you for the article @IndiaToday !
Just a clarification:
- NOT BROKEN by the result!
- And not lost to TVK!
Results:
#220 Vasudevanallur:
1. DMK - 63,045 (33.2%)
2. BJP - 56,462 (29.8%)
3. TVK - 45,862 (24.1%)
Four years ago, I sat down with my 12-year-old daughter in the US and told her I was walking away from a successful tech career and real estate business to return to India for public service and politics.
At that age, she didn’t realize “public life” would slowly take her Appa away from her for months… and years.
But I came with conviction.
So for the last 4 years, we gave everything we had — for example -In villages like Subramaniapuram and Vellanaikottai, we built bus shelters, restored a 100-acre pond, removed seemai karuvelam, strengthened bunds, planted thousands of palm saplings, supported students’ education, organized medical camps and career workshops, built community sheds, encouraged youth and sports activities, and contributed to annadanams.
It cost several ten lakhs of hard-earned money - just for this village alone. But more than money, it cost time… family moments… and precious years watching my daughter grow up from far away.
Then elections came.
And the same village chose a candidate who had barely visited them in five years.
In the end, one week of election-time money defeated four years of sincere service.
Yesterday, my daughter quietly asked me over video call:
“Appa… can you now tell me what exactly politics is?”
For the first time in my life, I did not have an answer for my chellaponnu.
@svembu
Bro, had everything except being Hero in movies.
Farmer's son
BE Mech. Engineer
MBA from IIM, Lucknow
UPSC Rank holder, IPS Officer being real Singham.
Left stable job & joined politics to change the system.
The people who normalize cheating today are often the same people who are future cheaters .
Especially women supporting cheaters .. how can they be so insensitive to Sangeetha..
how can you not feel the pain of another woman and her kids !!
Ghor kaliyug !!
A "Not-So-Great" era has dawned on Tamil Nadu’s spiritual fabric as the missionary enters!
Three key takeaways from this election:
1. People proved that they are pissed off with both the Dravidian parties.
2. Money for votes will never work again. This is a welcome development.
3. The Vatican now has direct control and influence over Tamil Nadu. It has replaced a spent force (DMK), with a new tool (Joseph Vijay).
To conclude - The innate spirituality of Tamil Nadu enters another era and is going to fight a new and yet more dangerous enemy and his name is Joseph Vijay @actorvijay@TVKVijayHQ
Spectacular Dance of Democracy across Bharat. Those who have won should conduct these victories with utmost responsibility and commitment towards the people who are giving you this privilege. And those who have lost must understand that this is the normal process of democracy. Time to introspect and come up with ways to serve the people beyond being in positions of power.
Our sincere hopes and wishes to the people of these states will achieve their aspirations and goals. Namaskaram. -Sg
#ElectionResults2026
Here’s a little story about @AmitShah, Bengal and me.
Sometime after 2021 elections, I don’t recall what the occasion was, but there was a media meeting where Amit Shah was present.
I got up and asked him about Bengal and the plight of Hindus. This was the first time I was speaking to him. I had never met him before.
Before I could complete my question, he said, “I know what you went through in Bengal. Sab hoga. Main janta hu”.
A similar meeting happened a couple of years later. I asked and got a similar answer.
This time, I sat down and hid my face because I couldn’t control my tears.
@smitaprakash was there right next to me. No words were needed and she held my hand.
Today, Amit Shah delivered. He said no more. No more. “Main janta hu. Sab hoga”. That’s all. And he delivered today.
people may celebrate decimation of dmk/admk. TVK is dravidian 3.0 will be more dangerous since he is a practising christian. missionary will have a free run. the danger will be the seeping in of KL model. TN has many important n old temples who have crores of assets. Lawyers defending these temples will have to work 48/7. TVK for TN is not good sign at all.