A New Gen Magazine in Tamil

There is a new magazine in Tamil, it is "Puthiya Thalaimurai" and is priced at Rs.5/-.

To be frank with you, there are no good magazines in Tamil. Period.

On second thoughts, they are more or less glossy wastepaper that comes stapled together, and they usually depend upon sensational, veiled porn to sell their issues.

Politics, Crime, Cinema- if you take these out of your magazine, you are more or less likely to be left clutching at thin air.

Honestly.

But not this one-

The issue I have at hand has-

Inspirational articles by Abdul Kalam (on youth and 2020), Vairamuthu (on how he overcame his fear), by Ramesh Prabha (on business management), Iraiyanbu (on travel)...

Informative articles on Venky (The Indian who got the Nobel Prize this year), Nandakumar (the boy with Dyslexia that no school would take in, yet he studied in private from eighth standard on and got selected for Civil Services), on self employment (Mehndhi, Photography), learning Japanese, on our heritage, on efforts by MAFOI to produce excellent sportsmen, on Teenage Premier League 20-20 organised by three young men, on Madhumita (who sung in Slumdog Millionaire), on Stress Interview, on how to stop poisoning yourself with tobacco, on ethical journalism, on Thozhan- a NGO and more.

If you are an intellectual in Tamil Nadu, it means you are language-chauvinistic, caste-conscious and anti-globalisation.

It would be great to see a magazine that steers away from these traps.

Wish them well- if you know Tamil, please get a copy of it- at just Rs.5, it is a steal.