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I was on a bus from my place to Besant Nagar. At Ashok Pillar stop, people boarded the bus. There was Naik, an old friend of mine. He came and sat near my seat. It was a long time since we both met. The bus got stopped by a huge traffic because of a road block. Ahead were school students protesting against NEET and seeking justice for Anitha. He asked me curiously why TN is always in protest mode. Why TN people are so emotional, negative, narrow-minded and stereotyped? And why TN doesn’t join the mainstream India? If the whole nation travels in a direction why TN travels in the opposite direction? TN is always a spoiler in India, he was angry. As my stop came, I smiled at him and said “we’re not spoilers but whistle-blowers”, and got down. Later that night, I thought of his question and I wanted a justification on my statement “we’re not spoilers but whistleblowers”, if that is true? What I can accept is Tamil Nadu has never followed the stream. When the nation travels in one dir...

Whenever people hear the name “Indira Gandhi”, the first thing they remember is “Emergency” which is widely seen as a negative aspect of Indira. Operation Blue Star and the other big negative policies like “Nasbandi” (forced mass sterilization programme) are extensively in the memories of people even until this day. However, this article here, is a completely different effort. We will be focusing for its inevitability, the positive sides of Indira Gandhi’s rule, which are largely shadowed. Indira the Positive Leader Indira Gandhi, is the most powerful Prime Minister that India has ever seen in all its years of political independence. Also the most powerful women leader in the world that has ever been. Her presence was substantially felt and her leadership was noticeable globally by her political contemporaries both local and international. During the 1971 Parliamentary General Elections, she came up with a powerful slogan of “Garibi hatao, Desh bachao”, which is translate...