r/TamilNadu

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I am here in Hyderabad and have found most of the telegu people very friendly. But I asked all my telegu friends about Tamil Nadu and language barriers for people like us (I am from North part of India). 9/10 people say no one will tale to you properly unless you know Tamil and will refuse to talk even if they know Hindi.

No hate to Tamil culture. Recently following Anirudh songs read about Tolkapiyyam , Silpadikaran (I am a UPSC aspirant and very impressed by Tamil culture)

But are these speculations about tamils true? That they often prevent grouping with other people. I look forward to come to Chennai some time soon!

I don’t know if this is actually real or not, but a lot of sources are claiming Rs.100 crores corruption in the appointment of lawyers.

Now, since this TVK government, by default I will assume this is not true. VJ Anna promised maatram and he could have easily acted in a movie to make twice this.

But even if his party members did this, I think you should compare it in terms of proportion to what came before. 100 crores is nothing if you compared to thousands and thousands of crores over decades.

Now, coming to the accusation itself, I find it quite fishy. How can there be 100 crore worth of bribes for lawyer appointments? Why would a lawyer pay so much for a government job when they can awesome pay for private practice?

Annan said in Bigil, cuppu mukkiyam bigile….

I am saying: proportion mukkiyam makkale…

I've been thinking about how elections work, and I feel like the system itself encourages many of the problems we complain about.

Why do we expect politicians to "serve the people" when getting elected is so expensive? Election campaigns cost crores of rupees in every constituency. That money has to come from somewhere, and I assume a significant portion comes from wealthy individuals or businesses that expect something in return once the party is in power. If that's true, isn't the system already biased before voting even begins?

Another thing I've noticed is that many voters don't even know the name of their MLA. In reality, most people vote based on a party symbol or a popular face rather than evaluating the individual candidate.

This creates another problem. Suppose an independent candidate or someone without political connections has a great manifesto and genuinely works for the people. Can they realistically win? Unless they have generational wealth, a famous family, a well-known face, or the backing of a major party, the odds seem incredibly low.

At the same time, when one party wins a huge majority, its MLAs often have little incentive to question their own leadership. Even good MLAs may end up defending bad decisions because they're expected to support the party. That doesn't seem like a healthy system either.

I also wonder if we've structured leadership backwards. Instead of the public effectively choosing a Chief Minister through party branding, what if voters focused on electing the best MLAs, and then those 234 MLAs collectively chose the Chief Minister? Wouldn't that reduce the concentration of power in a single leader and encourage more accountability?

Finally, why can't elections involve more public debates? Imagine every constituency having open discussions where all candidates answer the same questions in front of voters, with equal opportunity and minimal campaign spending. People could compare ideas instead of advertisements, rallies, and party symbols.

I know this isn't a perfect solution, but it feels like the current system makes it very difficult for capable people without money, political backgrounds, or celebrity status to enter politics.

Am I missing something? What are the biggest arguments in favor of the current system over alternatives like these?

Ur help is Highly appreciated. Is there way out there to get fable 5 for free or is there any other way around . Kindly lemme know

It’s been a minute..

My father grew up in Mettur during the 1970s (as did most of my paternal relatives). Most of them migrated elsewhere over the next decade or so although we still had a few relatives continue to reside there until early 2000s.

My happiest fondest childhood memories are from visiting Mettur during my school breaks. Does Chemplast Chemicals Colony ring a bell for anyone here? the colony Pillayar temple? I remember how happy I used to be just walking those roads, visiting the temple and playing with cousins and friends in the colony.

It’s been more than 20 years since my last visit. And I’ve been longing to come back and just reminisce those golden days. I wonder if the colony is even around today. Or have they been “abandoned” and has nature effectively reclaimed all that land.

Anyway, don’t want to waste y’all’s time with my monologue. I am planning to visit Mettur sometime this year or early next year to find out those answers.

Was wondering if anyone here has recently been around the area - if so, would be super grateful for any recommendations for hotels / places to stay and dine at. Thank you 🙏🏽

Guilty tvk vijay is doing the criminal act of witness tampering by promising money & government jobs to karur victims' family . He already ransferred officials / threatened officials pension. The case is still ongoing and this is a criminal violation. Also tnpsc aspirants are seething over this given tnpsc has the lowest vacancy this year.

Witness tampering is the illegal act of attempting to improperly influence, alter, or prevent the testimony of a witness in a civil or criminal proceeding. It includes coercing, threatening, or bribing a witness, as well as instructing them to lie or withhold evidence.

Im just a college student with a brother who I JOIND in a government school called "government Muslim higher secondary school "(which is seven wells btw) because i studied there

On first they seemed nice and all,they where very welcoming towards my brother since i studied there

My brother was a not a bad student but he is kinda a late bloomer. If you be patient with him he would studied

But that school HM " j. Daniel" started to harassing and abusing him because he took less marks.

But the thing that frustat me the most is that when my brother is diagnosed with typhoid he had to took 14 days holiday for treatment and all. We submitted proofs and a doctor certificate to him but for some unknown fucking reason he just told him to not to come for 1 weeks like he wants us out of that shit hole of a school

After one week we gone there again to talk with the hm but he still refused to accept him inside

After some pressure from use he finally let him inside but the he started to physical and mentally harass my brother

By saying "nee la pass aga maate", "padika vaku Ella na ennthuku school ku vara" , "una enada school la yum satuka matanga na ne eduku unna satha nu theriyala" and he beats him almost every day for no reason

And also he apparently humiliates him infornt of the whole class for no reasons

Another detail is he has a metal ring in his finger which he uses to punch him in the face

This happend for 2 whole year. Idk how my brother handeld that for 2 years

We tried to talk with but he just switches point and topic when we talk about abuse even when I tried to force that my father dont let me. Because he is kinda afraid of police case because of some family issue

No matter what we do. He didnt seems to stop infact he doubled down more every time we talk to him

Now been of all that my brother lost his interest in studying and got failed in 10th (now studying for re exam )

I genuinely feel so bad because its all because of me he joind that shit hole of a school. I cant even sleep in the night because of this the guilt

Dose anyone know how to rise compliment without like going through leagle process and let our identity br hidden

I cant let a monster like him be a hm for a of school full of future leader nomore

Born in Ooty.

— October is the real Ooty.

May Ooty: 20°C, good weather, crowded beyond description, hotels fully booked, ghat traffic for hours, every viewpoint has 200 people.

October Ooty: 16-18°C, clear blue skies, all the greenery from monsoon still there, hotels easily available, no traffic, tourist spots almost empty, Doddabetta actually visible in the morning.

The monsoon ends by late September. The hills are at their most beautiful — deep green from 4 months of rain, waterfalls still running, air completely clean. Temperature is perfect — not too cold for comfort, not warm enough to need a fan.

And almost nobody is there.

Tamil Nadu families plan Ooty for summer holidays and Pongal. October falls between those windows so it stays empty. That emptiness is exactly what makes it special.

Hotels available. Prices lower than peak season. You can walk around Doddabetta without sharing the path with 300 strangers. You can sit in the Botanical Garden without it feeling like a bus stand.

April-la pona experience-um October-la pona experience-um same place-la iruku — but completely different feel-aagum.

Neenga October-la Ooty poreengala? Try pannirukeengala? 🏔️

How can I ensure that my sibling doesn’t sell our parent’s property, which we both legally inherit, while I’m out of the country?

Our parent recently passed away, and I doubt that my sibling might take advantage of the situation. I want to legally prevent this from happening.

I’m currently physically outside the country and the property is located in Nellai.
Anybody who has been in this position before please advise legal steps that you took.
Thanks.

We are going to create a village of like minded people.

If you want to produce your own food, if you like a sustainable lifestyle, if you like to own a farm house, then this is for you.

We are a group of 16 people from around TN. We want to buy farm lands anywhere in Tamil Nadu, with a budget of 5 to 7 lakhs per acre.

We will trade excess production among each other. One person might produce more hay, trade it for milk from another person in the group. You could be owning a cow and you could be producing more biogass than you consume. You can opt to trade it with someone who has excess solar production. The limit is our creativity and cooperation.

We have a WhatsApp group. If you're interested, dm me or comment here and I'll send you the invite link to our WhatsApp group.

Born in Ooty. This one surprises almost every visitor.

Ooty Lake is not natural. It's a man-made reservoir, built by John Sullivan — the same British officer who developed Ooty — by damming a small valley and its stream. Built around 1825.

Sullivan needed a water supply for the growing settlement. The natural terrain of that particular valley made it the obvious spot. The stream was dammed, the valley flooded, and what you now see as "Ooty's famous lake" was created by a colonial engineer with a practical problem to solve.

The rowing boats, the boathouse, the lakeside park — all of that came much later. The lake itself is just an old dam.

Most visitors assume it's been there forever. It's been there 200 years, which in a place as old as the Nilgiris is practically yesterday.

The actual streams and water bodies in the Nilgiris — the Pykara river, the Emerald streams, the Avalanche valley — those are the real ancient water geography of these hills. The Ooty lake is a colonial construction that became a tourist attraction.

Does it matter? Maybe not. It's still beautiful. Just not what most people think it is.

I spoke with a few people who follow politics very closely for more than two decades and what they told me came as a shock.

TVK are getting MLAs for 2 reasons

1. As we all know they can't depend on communists for the majority coz they might switch, so they are getting MLAs from ADMK.

2. They are preparing themselves for national elections. Because the funds to campaign for a national election is very high and it's not like a simple state election.

They might ask the newly joined ADMK MLAs to contest in the national election, in that case they will have a more experienced and money backed candidate in the parliament.

Before the elections we all thought these guys are just incapable of handling a party or ruling Tamilnadu. But they are just very different than we expected.

Next five years is gonna be a roller coaster fs

Born in Ooty. This one surprises people from Chennai especially.

From 1870 onwards, Ooty served as the summer capital of the Madras Presidency — the British colonial administration that governed most of South India, including what is now Tamil Nadu.

Every summer, the entire administration physically moved from Madras (Chennai) to Ooty. The Governor, the senior officials, the courts, the files. Everything. The heat in Madras was simply too much for the colonial administration to function through.

This went on for decades. Until Indian Independence in 1947.

This is why Ooty looks the way it does. The buildings, the layout, the Botanical Garden, the clubs, the racecourse — these weren't built for a tourist hill station. They were built for a functioning seat of government.

The Raj Bhavan in Ooty — the Governor's residence — still stands. It was literally where the head of the Madras Presidency lived during the summer months.

So when people ask why Ooty has such unusual architecture for a South Indian town — this is the answer. For 77 years, it was effectively the seasonal capital of Tamil Nadu.

My grandfather was from a village in Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu. He moved to Delhi and married my grandmother (a Punjabi) and never went to the south again. My grandmother never maintained a relationship with my grandfather's family, and eventually all my grandfather's relatives died. My grandfather also died when I was 2-3 years old. My father never went to the south, and neither did I. I want to know about my surname, which is Moopanar. Can you all help me?

Hi, we are doing a daytrip from trichy to Pillayarpatti temple & Karaikudi.
I would like to visit the palaces and chettinad mansions here. But i saw that we're not allowed to enter Kanadukathan Palace. Is there any other options to enter especially historical places?

Any suggestions are welcome.

Is there anything for us like that?

I don't know if anyone else feels this way, but as a Murugan devotee, I'm honestly very happy to see more and more people developing devotion towards Murugan. Seeing temples crowded and people chanting His name genuinely makes me happy.

But at the same time, I'm starting to feel uncomfortable with something. Recently, I've been seeing people trying to separate Hindu gods based on language or region—like saying Murugan is only a Tamil god, Vishnu is a North Indian or Hindi god, or claiming one deity belongs to one community and another belongs to someone else.

As a Tamil myself, I don't understand this. Tamil literature has some of the greatest devotional works for Lord Vishnu too, like the Nalayira Divya Prabandham. At the same time, saints like Arunagirinathar gave us incredible works praising Murugan. Our tradition has always respected all deities.

Now I'm even seeing debates claiming Tirupati was originally a Murugan temple or people getting angry over movie dialogues because they mention Murugan in a certain way. Whether something is historically true or not should be discussed with evidence, not with the intention of creating divisions.

When I read Arunagirinathar's Tiruppugazh, written centuries ago, he describes Murugan's birth from Lord Shiva's divine fire and His appearance in Saravana Poigai. These stories have existed for hundreds of years. Why are we suddenly trying to rewrite everything through the lens of language and regional identity?

I just feel that some people are turning devotion into politics and language pride, and that's not good for Hinduism. Murugan isn't just for Tamils. Vishnu isn't just for North Indians. Shiva isn't just for one region. They belong to every devotee.

That's just how I feel. Devotion should bring us together, not create new divisions within the same faith.