Deepa Jayakumar - Have you no sense of decency madam? You are everything Jayalalitha wasn't

This started out as a tweet, but turns out the amount of hatred I reserve for this woman can't be described in 140 characters. I hate her so much because I loved Jayalalitha.

I loved the way she conducted herself, her grace, her intellect, her mighty will.

Jayalalitha was a self-made person.
We know she was an excellent student, when she gave that up as a teenager to turn to acting to support her family. We know how she was repeatedly insulted in politics, when MGR was around, and after his death.

But she always fought. She fought for everything she received, fought hard and long. She received nothing on a platter served up.

She was long in politics before power was transitioned after MGR's death and MGR gave her the opportunities she had not because she was his muse, but because she was talented. She earned every bit to be party leader and then leader of TN's people.

Deepa, you on the other hand, are anything but this.
Just because you dress like Jayalalitha and pretend to act like her, you don't become her heir.

Your actions are proof about why Jayalalitha kept you and your family away. She did not want to do anything with a bunch of greedy opportunists within her own family, she had enough of those in her political life. So please, please I beg you, don't insult Jayalalitha by pretending to be like her.
It is also a really bad political strategy, see mu.ka.muthu !

P.S. I tried to prevent myself from saying this, but since you are the one who has brought your looks into the equation, I think you have made it fair game. You think you look like Jayalalitha ? Really ?
That is what she looked like around your age..

Now go look in the mirror !

"The best ever iPhone"

It is really funny that Apple always compares its products only against its own previous generation products , a clever marketing ploy aimed at the gullible ?

Here's a few about the iPhone 6

- it features an A8 processor which is smaller than the A7 and 50 times faster than the first iPhone !! Really ? Wow, why not compare it with the first computer that was ever invented ?

- the same thinnest ever non sense every time

- "we wouldn't introduce a larger display until we could make one that was great", "this is the best iPhone display w have ever built"

lol that really says you're a serious laggard when it comes to displays, phones in the industry already have much better displays and like you admit it yourself, you just haven't been able to build something that's great, no not now either

- The camera isn't really better even than an older iPhone, so they don't have much to say about it, except for having something called 'focus pixels' whatever crap that is. Only the iPhone 6 plus has OIS

- oh and iOS8 is of course the best ever iOS with brand new features on your iPhone that have existed on say android for a couple of years.

I could go on but am tired of watching Apple's condescending boring presentation

Well it is an extremely stupid strategy Apple ! The only customers you are talking to are those who already are Apple fans (or fanatics) !! No one else cares about these comparisons and everyday there are some who wake up and leave from being a stupid Apple fan. So all you're doing is retaining some (maybe most) of your existing customers but acquire (almost) no new customers !!!

It is definitely a conscious choice, the one place where it is really market leading, it has tons of LTE bands, they actually say it is significantly better than almost all smartphones, so well Apple does know they make poor phones, would be nice if they actually build a great phone. Am quite sure they can.

67 years of freedom, yet awaiting Independence. Am losing hope, but still believe in us.

I really don't know where to start, perhaps with the utterly disheartening prime minister's speech yesterday. Nothing but self gratification. It is really hard to believe he went to Oxford and Cambridge. His quote that "the failing rupee is because of the global recession" is malice, a deliberate attempt to fool the millions of Indians who believe anything they are told. I really don't know how he can go to sleep every night after shaming himself by perpetrating lies his bosses ask him to deliver.

It is such inaction and defensiveness that destroys hope, no surprise that the sensex tanked 800 points immediately today after the markets re-opened. I am really sick of this government's lack of motive or intent. It extends the term "policy logjam" to new heights. Decisions / Bills have to either be accepted without any objections or questions or will never be made. And then blame the opposition that they don't let the parliament function if they question any policy. I can woefully accept there is public debate in our society but even no rational parliamentary debate ? This is truly unacceptable. Wonder what the Congress government's understanding of democracy is ?!

It is finally a such of relief that the opposition finally chose Modi as their front-runner because they looked just as hopeless as the others. All Modi haters please have a little bit of respect for our Supreme court, the millions of voters in Gujarat and all the factual accounts of development, use your head, give him a chance !

The media in our country really continues to confound me. There are these absolutely stupid news hour debates and apparent paid news, but there are some great exposé's and brilliant investigative journalism. Online media like news laundry are also refreshing.

Social media has given rise to both the neo socialist wanna be petit bourgeois and abusive right wing extremists. I find it really hard to say who is more annoying but at least understand the motivation of the online hindutva brigade. How much minority appeasement and vote bank politics can one tolerate !

I have not lost hope, I still believe in democracy, in our democracy, the largest in the world. Last time my hopes were fading, people of Tamil Nadu gave a thumping victory to AIADMK and Jayalalitha has so far delivered. I hope the congress loses similarly (DMK didn't get enough seats to even be the lead opposition) and hope Modi delivers "sabka saath, sabka vikas". Jai Hind.