Thursday, October 7, 2010

Tamilnadu Progressive Writers and Artists Association (TNPWAA) condemns cultural degradation by SUN group of companies

From the beginning of its production, the SUN pictures film “Enthiran / Robot” was being given excruciating publicity in the name of advertisement, which has created serious concerns among the Tamil people. Controlling major satellite television channels and with an impatient intension to earn multifold of their investment in the film, they are guiding the youngsters of Tamilnadu in a wrong path. Extensively advertising for the film from early morning 4’o clock, they are repeatedly showing the footage of youngsters shaving their head, sacrificing hen, pouring milk on cutouts etc., and trying to project these acts as exemplary cultural practices. This is being done by both SUN television and their journal DINAKARAN to instigate the youngsters to do it again and again. SUN group has taken the task of degrading the youth, which forms the strong work force of the state. We the Tamilnadu Progressive Writers and Artists Association strongly condemn such cultural degradation act by SUN group of companies. We call upon all the progressive forces to condemn such undignified act by SUN group of companies. We also urge the youngsters to not fall into the business trap of SUN group to convert the aesthetic love for an artist into a mental delusion.

CPI(M) wants Yeddyurappa to quit


Members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) staged a protest in front of the Town Hall here on Wednesday against the Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board (KIADB) scam and demanded the resignation of Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa.

CPI (M) State secretariat member B.C. Bhayya Reddy, K.S. Vimala and leaders raised slogans against the Chief Minister, Information Technology, Biotechnology and Housing Minister Katta Subramanya Naidu and his councillor-son Katta Jagadish Naidu.

“We demand the resignation of Mr. Yeddyurappa and Mr. Katta Subramanya Naidu on moral grounds,” the party's office secretary S. Vinod said.

The party activists also decided to intensify the protest if the Chief Minister did not resign.

(Courtesy : The Hindu)