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Delimitation threat: Stalin reaches out to 7 CMs, invites them to Chennai

In an effort to form a coalition of the willing to stall the impending threat of the delimitation exercise, Chief Minister MK Stalin on Friday written to seven of his counterparts, including Mamata Banerjee of West Bengal, Bhagwant Maan of Punjab, and BJP’s Mohan Chandra Mahji of Odisha, inviting them to Chennai on March 22 to chart a joint action plan.

Pages from a village diary

Once upon a time in the village of Narayanpur there lived a bunch of people who assembled children's toys at the rate of 144 toys for Rs 20. Calculation yields that assembling one toy fetches them a little more than 13 paise and a little less than 14 paise. But alas, as much as I would have wished I was talking about some distant past when calculations were still in paise, I am not.