The project is a recipe for destruction and ruin, and must be opposed on environmental and economic grounds. But superstition and blind faith guide decision-making in a globalising India that aspires to become a modern economic superpower

Karunanidhi said he was “neither disappointed nor fully happy” with the Centre’s actions. “That is why we have called for the General strike,”

"We have not heard of Ramar Paalam until now when the BJP talked about it. We have always known the islands as theedai or thittu,’’ says Ramalakshmi who lives with her husband Selvaraj, and their three children, as have generations before them in Rameswaram

Karunanidhi told NDTV that ''Ram is as big a lie as Himalayas and Ganges. I merely told the fact, I did not intend to hurt anyone's sentiments. There is no question of withdrawing my statement.''

“Even if I am beheaded, my identity will always remain in Tamil Nadu,” Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi said here on Saturday, in response to offensive remarks made by VHP leader and former BJP MP Ram Vilas Vedanti.