Jayalalitha Childhood Photos

Third Blow (மூன்றாவது அடி )

2011-12-04T01:58:00.000-08:00

More than 100 years ago....."I was twelve years old. It was morning 5 o'clock. Suddenly I wake up hearing some sound outside our house. People were shouting,cheering and running. I could still remember some words they were shouting "Water is running through our village!!!... it is a new river!!! come on lets go and see!!!". I also woke up and ran along with the crowd carrying my two year old sister".I could not believe my eyes. I saw a river,! Totally a new river!!! A very big river !!! People were diving into the river. All were looking happy and excited and praising an english name 'john'. They were talking " This river is coming from the top of the hill and running more than 100 miles.From now onwards we can cultivate paddy(rice) ." My grandma was telling this story. The place is Kambam village in Madurai district of Tamilnadu State, India.

The story behind the construction of the Dam:
John Pennycuick works in the British Army in India. One day, when he was going through the geographical map of the above area, he saw a big river at the top of the hill (2890 feet above sea level).

The river (called as Periyar River) was going waste through mountains and finally ended in the sea. He thought "If ever we could divert the river in the opposite direction, millions of people will be benefited. He worked out the logic like this: " If we stopped the flow of river by building a dam, then , water level of the river will increase and it will automatically flow through the opposite direction.See the images of river before and after the construction of the Dam.

But, he observed one more hinderence; a small mountain. He has to make a hole of 6000 feet through this mountain. He submitted his proposal for construction of dam as well as making hole to the British Government.(Note : the same idea was there for the Captain-cum-engineer Caldwell in 1808 but he dropped this idea thinking tunneling is not feasible. Before Caldwell, in 1778, Ramnad Raja also thought of diverting the water by constructing a dam. But, because of financial constraints, he could not proceed further )

See the images below which show the view of the River before and after the construction of Dam.

Mullaiperiyar river before construction of dam

Mullaiperiyar river after construction of dam

The british government sanctioned Rs.7500,000 (about 150,000 dollars) and the work commenced in 1893. When more than 50% work is completed, there was continuous rain and the dam was fully washed away.(Note: To construct a dam across a running river, you have to divert the water in some other route. For that you have to make arrangements. These arrangements were washed away by rain)
British govt refused to allot any more fund for this work. As John Pennycuick is also a member in Madras Legislative Council he was more attached to the people of that State. When the govt refused fund, he went back to England and sold all his properties and using that money he completed the dam in December 1895. Now 2.17 lakh acres (68,000 hectares) of land is benefited by this dam.

FATE OF THIS MULLAIPERIYAR DAM and the RIVER:
The Dam is situated in the place of Kerela State while the River is in Tamilnadu State. See the above image of the dam again. If you increase the water level more, tamilnadu will get benefit by getting more water. If water level is permitted to lower down, then kerela will get benefit by releasing more water through the dam. Hence, this water-level problem went to court. Court ordered(in 2006) a water level of 142 feet. Kerela govt allows the level of 136 feet on dam safety grounds

Technical Details of the Periyar Dam:
1. This type of Dams are called as Gravity Dams.
2. Gravity Dam means, these dams are stable mainly because of Force of Gravity.
3. Height of periyar dam is 176 feet.
4. Length of the dam is 1200 feet.
5.Thickness at the base is 138 feet.
6.Thickness at the top is 12 feet
7. Materials used for construction of Dam: (sugar+calcium oxide=mortar),limestone.
8. The construction of this dam is regarded as "ONE OF THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY FEAT OF ENGINEERING EVER PERFORMED BY MAN"

Profile of John Pennycuick
1. Date of Birth: 15 Jan 1841
2. Pennycuick trained in Addiscombe Military College
3. Pennycuick Joined in Royal Engineers in 1858
4. Pennycuick came to India in 1860
5. He worked as Cheif Engineer in indian PWD from 1890 to 1896.
6. He was appointed as a member of Madras Legislative Council in 1893
7. Pennycuick is also a faculty member of Madras University
8. His hobby is playing cricket.
9. He constructed the Mullai periyar dam (earlier called as Periyar Dam)
10. The dam reesrvoir is called as Periyar-thekkady Reservoir.

Mullai periyar dam as seen in google maps

john pennycuick who constructed mullai-periyar dam

Close up look of Mullai periyar dam which has now become a dispute between two states
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Mullai periyar dam
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Mullai periyar dam during construction in 1887
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Mullai periyar dam in 1895
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Mullai periyar another view
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Diagram which explains the conflict between kerala and tamilnadu governments

If more water is allowed towards kerala's Idukki dam, then tamilnadu will get less water for irriguation.
If less water goes to Idukki dam, they cannot generate electricity. Hence the dispute.

The red color block shown in this diagram is the new proposed mullai periyar dam kerala govt is going to construct(this information is as per tamilnadu PWD engineers.)
The kerala govt says, tamilnadu will get the water from the new dam. But tamilnadu PWD engineers say that if the new dam is built, tamilnadu could not get water by citing the above diagram.
Both state people are completely interdependent on each other.
It is not like the relation between Tamilnadu and Karnataka (they are loosely connected).
Hence an amicable solution becomes a must for the welfare of both the sides.

image of idukki dam in kerala. This dam is called as Arch Dam. The capacity of this dam is more than 4 times that of Mullaiperiyar Dam.CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO ENLARGE

A video made by the tamilnadu PWD engineers
on mulllaiperiyar dam conflict.

What is the stand of Tamilnadu Government (as on December 2011)

The Mullai Periyar Dam is a gravity dam built in 1886- 1895 with stone masonry and lime surkhi concrete. Gravity dams use their weight to resist the water pressure and other external forces like wave pressure, earthquake forces etc. for the reservoir to remain stable. The Periyar Lease deed between the Maharaja of Travancore and Madras Presidency with effect from 1.1.1886 for a period of 999 years was executed on 29.10.1886 for diversion of waters to the Madras Presidency under “Periyar Project”. An extent of about 8,000 acres has been given on lease on payment of an annual rent of Rs.51- per acre. The waters of the dam irrigate about 2.23 lakh acres in Theni, Dindigul, Madurai, Sivagangai and Ramanathapuram Districts of Tamil Nadu. On 29.5.1970, two supplemental agreements were entered into between Kerala and Tamil Nadu; one for increasing the annual lease rent from Rs.51- to Rs.301- per acre and subjecting it to revision every 30 years; and in turn surrendering the fishing rights to Kerala and the other permitting Tamil Nadu to generate Hydro electric power on payment of certain charges to Kerala according to the quantum of power generated. These were executed as successors in interest to the Principal Deed of 1886.

There are examples in various parts of the world of masonry dams which have been strengthened. The Roosevelt Dam, in Arizona, USA, was built in 1911. In 1980, modifications were designed to meet safety standards and flood control. Its capacity had also been expanded. The Joux Dam built in France in 1905 was heightened in 1952 by top concrete section and post tension anchors. Upper Glendevol is a gravity dam in U.K. and was provided with rock-fill buttress downstream.

The strengthening works carried out in the case of the Mullaiperiyar Dam from 1980 to 1994 on the recommendations of the Chairman of the Central Water Commission are almost similar. In the old dam,the front and back of the dam were constructed as stone masonry with lime surkhi mortar. The centre of the dam was filled with lime surkhi concrete. Gravity dams withstand the pressure of water and tremors using their weight. As a short term action, to increase the weight of the dam, 21 feet wide, 3 feet thick RCC capping structure was provided on top of the dam for its entire length. Due to this, the weight of the dam is increased by about 35 tons per metre, ie. a total of 12000 tons weight has been added to the structure. As a part of medium term action, cable anchoring was also done on the basis of pre-stressing technology. At a distance of 5 feet away from the front face of the dam, on the top of the dam, four inch diameter holes were drilled at 9 feet internally along the length of the dam up to a depth of 30 feet inside the foundation rock. Inside these holes, 34 numbers of 7 mm diameter high strength steel wires were inserted. These cables were anchored in the foundation rocks. Initially concrete was poured to a depth of 20 feet and then cables were inserted and anchored. From the top a prestressing force of 120 tons was applied and locked. At this stage, concrete mix was poured again to fill the hole and then it was closed at the top. Due to this, these prestressed cables hold the dam strongly with foundation rocks with a force of 120 tons. 95 such cables were inserted and concrete filled at an interval of 9 feet for the entire length of the dam and strengthened to withstand various forces including seismic forces. As a long term measure, a 32 feet wide RCC backing concrete with 10 feet deep foundation up to a height of 145 feet above the ground abutting the cap structure was erected on the back of the dam. The existing dam and the backing concrete were designed and joined together using state-of-the art technology to behave as a single dam structure. Based on the Central Water Commission’s recommendation, while building the backing concrete, two drainage galleries were also built at levels of 10 feet and 45 feet in the new structure. With these, water seepage from the dam is being measured daily.

It has been proved and established scientifically that a certain amount of water must leak as seepage from the dam, if it needs to be safe, strong and healthy.

In fact, when the water level rises above (FRL) 152 feet, to safeguard the dam, excess water is discharged by a spill way with 10 vents, each measuring 36×16 ft, which was already there. Using this, 86,000 Cu.ft of water/second can be discharged. Moreover, based on the advice of the Central Water Commission, an extra spilling capacity of 36,000 cu.ft. / second was added by constructing 3 vents measuring 40×16 ft. So, the current spilling capacity of the dam is approximately 1,22,000 cu. ft/second.

Thus, it is amply clear that the dam is safe and adequate steps have been taken by Tamil Nadu to ensure its safety.

On 27-2-2006, the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India by its judgement permitted Tamil Nadu to raise the water level in the Mullai Periyar Dam initially to 142 feet and carry out the remaining strengthening works. After the strengthening works are completed to the satisfaction of the Central Water Commission, independent experts will examine the safety angle, before the water level is permitted to be raised to 152 feet. To thwart this, “The Kerala Irrigation and Water Conservation (Amendment) Act 2006″ was passed by the Kerala Legislative Assembly and the amended Act came into force from 1 8.3.2006. The maximum water level of the Mullaiperiyar Dam was fixed at 136 feet by this Act. The Suit filed by the Government of Tamil Nadu challenging the Constitutional validity of this Amendment is still pending in the Supreme Court.

In October, 2009, in the Supreme Court, while hearing Tamil Nadu’s petition, a Bench comprising Justices D.K.Jain, Mukundakam Sharma and R.M.Lodha observed “if every State in inter-state disputes sought enacting a legislation not to give effect to ourjudgement, it would have serious consequences. When this Court said that Tamil Nadu can raise the water level up to 142 feet, can you (Kerala) nullify it by enacting a legislation and fixing the water level at 136 feet?” it asked Senior Counsel Rajiv Dhawan appearing for the State of Kerala. “What is the sanctity of the Supreme Court if its judgements are not implemented?” The Kerala Counsel said the State had to come up with the legislation as it was concerned with the safety of its people. At this, Justice D.K.Jain said:”This Court is equally concerned with the safety of the people. The Court had taken all the facts and concerns expressed by the two parties before passing the decree”.

To Kerala’s objections to the Central Water Commission’s studies, the Court remarked “the Central Water Commission is a statutory body. Do not label it with tar”. Following this, a Five-Member Constitution Bench was constituted in November, 2009.

In February, 2010, the Constitution Bench comprising Justices D.K.Jain, B.Sudershan Reddy, Mukundakam Sharma, R.M.Lodha and Deepak Verma remarked “Your arguments are unfounded, misleading, fallacious and jugglery of words. You should support it with evidence.” The Court made these remarks as it was not impressed with Kerala’s argument that if the water level of the dam was allowed to be raised beyond 136 feet, it would lead to its collapse endangering public safety as it would submerge several villages. The Bench had said the arguments cannot be accepted as even during the three floods witnessed in 1924, 1943, and 1961, the water level had reached a maximum of 153.90 feet, 154.80 feet and 152.0 feet respectively, as against the designed maximum water level of 155 feet.

On February 18, 2010, the Hon’ble Supreme Court appointed an Empowered Committee to look into various aspects excepting legal and constitutional aspects including the validity of the Amendment, 2006, under the former Chief Justice of India, Dr. A.S. Anand as its Chairman. Tamil Nadu and Kerala appointed two former Supreme Court Judges from their respective States.

The Empowered Committee is expected to submit its report to the Hon’ble Supreme Court by February, 2012. The Committee has used and is using the services of the Central Water Commission, Central Water and Power Research Station, Geological Survey of India, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre and Central Soil and Material Research Station for the different studies and tests, conducted at the dam site and in their laboratories.

The human settlements in the area are much above the reach of the flood waters of the Mullaiperiyar Dam and the ldukki Reservoir of Kerala is designed to absorb the flood and to moderate flood up to about 4,00,000 cubic feet of water per second. In this respect, the Hon’ble Supreme Court has observed in its order dated 27th February 2006 that ” it is the case of the State of Kerala that despite the ‘copious rain’, the Idukki Reservoir is not filled to its capacity. While the capacity of the reservoir is 70.5 tmc., it was filled only to the extent of 57.365 tmc. This also shows that assuming the worst happens more than 11 tmc water would be taken by Idukki Dam”. When the waters reach ldukki Dam, which is about 50 Kms away, it will have only a velocity of 3 feet per second. It is also reported that when the water level at Mullaiperiyar Dam is 136 feet, the water spread area is 4678 acres and that if the water is stored to 155 feet, the water spread area will be 8591 acres. Since water has not been stored above 136 feet for a long time, the water spread area has been encroached upon by land grabbers in Kerala who have built resorts and other buildings on the lands leased to Tamil Nadu. If the water level is increased from 136 feet, these resorts will get submerged in water. This is also cited by some as the possible reason for the plea to decommission the Mullaiperiyar Dam.

There is no valid reason to believe that the Mullai Periyar Dam is unsafe. It is unfortunate that a fear psychosis among the people of Kerala is being built up. As the Mullai Periyar Dam is fully safe and as good as new, the people of Kerala should see through the machinations of vested interests and should feel secure that the retrofitted Mullai Periyar Dam is as good as new and therefore not a threat to the lives and properties of the people of the region.

Jayalalitha 1st Hindi Movie Stills

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Photo stills from the First Hindi Movie Izzat of Jayalalitha. Jayalalitha acted in this film at the age of 19. This movie was released in 1968 and it is a superhit in Hindi. Dharmendra,Tanuja,Jayalalitha have acted in this film. Music by Laxmikant Pyarelal. Directed by T.Prakash Rao.

Stills from Izzat the very first hindi movie Jayalalitha acted
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Selvi Jayalalitha unseen photo stills at the age of 19 from the very first hindi movie Izzat which was released in 1968

10 Tips How to Purchase a Flat

2011-11-09T20:52:00.000-08:00

Guidance to purchase a Flat.
If you are interested in purchasing a Flat in a city like Chennai, Hyderabad, Noida, Mumbai then before proceeding to buy, you should know certain basic things to avoid cheating by Builders.
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Tip 1: You should know what is FSI.
FSI stands for Floor Space Index.
Take the Total CARPET AREA of all the flats and DIVIDE it by the LAND AREA. What you get is FSI.
For example, in Noida, the FSI is 3.0. That means, if the land area is 3000 sq.feet, then the total carpet area of all the flats should not exceed 9000 sq.feet. You should verify the Approved Layout plan and Approved Building Plan to find out whether the builder has deviated from the plan.
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Tip2 : Know what is the difference between carpet area & Builtup Area
Carpet Area: Area Inside the house EXCLUDING THE SPACE OCCUPLIED BY THE WALLS.
Builtup area: It includes the space occupied by the walls also.
Stamp duty is to be paid only to the carpet area not for the builtup area.
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Tip 3: Checkout the neighbourhood of your Flat or Building.
Whether there is liquor shop? Whether the next building is a temple creating lot of noise due to loudspeakers? Whether your flat is near a waste dumping ground which may cause deseases.
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Tip4: If you own car, check the arrangement for PARKING your car?
Check out whether parking space is there for your car or two-wheeler and it is safe.
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Tip-5:

MGR Unbelievable Facts PART3

2011-10-27T09:03:00.000-07:00

Rare pictures and biography of MGR

MGR started to love Janaki during RAJA MUKTHI and MOHINI film shootings. The love became strong in MaruthaNaattuIlaavasi shooting.
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MGR-Janaki couple.
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MGR-Janaki in 1948. A still from Tamil movie MOHINI

Leelavathi is the 6th daughter of M.G.Chakrapani. At the age 35, she donated her kidney to MGR in 1984.
Even at the age of 62, she is hale and healthy. Hence don't be afraid to donate your kidney

MGR Unbelievable Facts PART2

2011-10-27T06:16:00.000-07:00

MGR childhood,teenage and Rare middle age Photos

MGR Childhood photo.(MGR at the age of 15).
This photo was taken to show it to film producers to get chance.
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MGR had one brother(MG Chankrabani) and one sister.
His sister expired during her childhood due to illness

Thangamani alias Bhargavi is the first wife of MGR.
She died due to illness just 3 months after the marriage

Sadanadavathi is the second wife of MGR. She died because of illness.

MGR could not go to school (He studied only upto 3rd standard) and
joined a drama troupe at Kumbakonam.

Scenes from Jaya's FIRST movie

2011-10-25T22:35:00.000-07:00

Jayalalitha acted in "Chinnada Gombe" , a Kannada movie in 1963 when she was studying Matriculation at the age of 15. She acted in this movie without missing classes.
Here are some of the scenes from the Jayalalitha's very first movie (debut movie).

scenes from the Jayalalitha's very first movie (debut movie) Chinnada Gombe

Jayalalitha Childhood Photos-PART2

2011-10-25T09:26:00.000-07:00

photo of jayalalitha when she is studying in church park convent

Jayalalitha when MGR expired

Jayalalitha in her school days

Jaylalitha with her Mother

Jayalalitha Biography

FAMILY
Jayalalitha was born on 24-february-1948. Her original name was KOMALA VALLI.
Jayalalitha's father name is Jayaraman. He was a lawer. Her father died when she was just 2 years old.
Jayalalitha's mother's name is Vedavalli. She was working in the Directorate of Agriculture. Whe she started acting in movies, she got the screen name Sandhya.Sandhya's Sister Vidyavathi was also acting in Tamil and Telugu movies.
Jayalalitha's ancesters were living in Srirangam in Tamilnadu. When her grandfather (Rangachari) got the job as surgeon in Mysore Palace, the family moved to Mysore. Because of his working in the palace, all the names start with JAYA (eg. JAYA-lalitha, Her father JAYA-ram)

Jayalalitha is Iyengar by birth. But she is not interested in exhibiting her caste even in childhood days.

EDUCATION: Jayalalitha studied in Church Park Convent (Sacred Heart Matriculation School) in Madras(Chennai). She was an outstanding student in school. One of her classmate (now working as a Senior Journalist at Delhi) says like this about Jayalalitha :::"She got more than 70 marks in each subject while all others were struggling to get 60 marks. She won the BEST GIRL AWARD in the school". She passed her matriculation in 1964.
In those days there is no +2. After 11th standard, we should go to college for PUC(Pre University Course). Jayalalitha joined Stella Marys College. But she could not continue her studies as she got the opportunity for acting in Sridhar's Vennira Aadai(Tamil Movie)

Extra-curricular
Jayalalitha learned Bharatha natyam and had her ARANGETRAM (அரங்கேற்றம்) at the age of 12

Actress
Jayalalitha's first film was "Chinnada Gombe (kannada)" . Her first tamil film was Vennira Aadai(வெண்ணிற ஆடை). Her first film with MGR was Aayirathil oruvan (ஆயிரத்தில் ஒருவன் )
In 1980 she entered into Politics.

About Chinnada Gombe(kannada)

This is very first movie for Jayalalitha
Jayalalitha was studying in school duing this film. She acted only duing summer vacations without missing classes.
Jayalalitha was just 15 years old when she acted in this film.
This film was released on 1st january 1964
Actor: Kalyan kumar
Actress: Jayalalitha,M.V.Rajamma,Kalpana
Director: B.R.Pandhulu

Stills from the first movie of jayalalitha (chinnada Gombe-kannada-1964)

Jayalalitha childhood photos PART 1

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A very rare collection selvi jayalalitha photos from the age of 6 months old.

Jayalalitha childhood photo (when studying in school)

stills from jayalalitha's very first movie

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MGR - unbelievable facts

MGR : Unbelievable Facts PART1

2009-11-25T05:09:00.000-08:00

rare photos mgr, mgr's sister, mgr's previous wivies,mgr's mother,mgr acting in drama, mgr with his drama troupe, mgr's first movie, mgr with shivaji in first movie.

Real Facts about MGR

MGR's parents are Maruthur Gopala Menon and Satyabhamma.
In MGR,MG stands for Marudhur Gopalamenon
MGR had one elder brother M.G.chakrapani and a sister. His sister passed away when she was very young.
MGR was born in Nawalapitiya near Kandy in Sri Lanka.
MGR's father was a magistrate and his mother was a house wife.

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MGR Back to India

Actually MGR's father was a magistrate and his father had one more wife in Kerela (This wife had three children:Kamalakshi, Sumitra,Balakrishnan) . MGR's father died when they are in Srilanka. After his death, MGR,his mother and brother came to kerela . But the other wife of his father illtreated them and drove them away.
Without knowing what to do, they went to Burma and Rangoon. But they are not able to manage there.So they returned back to India and settled at Kumbakonam.
About MGR's Mother:
MGR's mother worked very hard to bring her children up. She had no money to send them to school. (MGR studied only upto 3rd standard). Finally, reluctanly she put them in a drama troupe which was running very near to their house. That became the turning point for MGR.
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MGR's donations:
MGR donated Rs.75,000 in 1962 as the war fund when india had war with China

MGR's Marriage Life
MGR first married Bhargavi. But after 3 months, she passed away due to illness. The MGR married Sathanandavathi. she also died because of TB.
After that, MGR married V.N.Janaki. Janaki is an actress.She has not divorced her first husband Ganapati Bhat. MGR had't any children.
MGR's brother M.G.Chakrapandi got 10 children
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MGR's FILM CAREER:
In MGR's first shooting, he acted as "UTHRAN" character.Uthran is a person who helped Arjunan in Mahabaratham.
MGR's first film was SATHI LEELAVATHI in which he acted as a police officer. in this film, the hero was M.K.Radha.
MGR's first film in which he acted as Hero was RAJAKUMARI.
MGR acted in the very first color film in Asia. The movie name is ALI BHAABAAVUM 40 THIRUDARKALUM.
MGR directed the film NAADODI MANNAN.
Jayalalitha acted in 28 films with MGR. KANNI THAAI is the first movie of Jayalalitha with MGR.

POLITICS:

MGR was initially in Congress upto 1953. He used to wear Kadhi dress and always putting Viboothi in his forehead. Then he joined DMK. He became MLC in 1962 and became MLA in 1967. He formed AIADMK and in 1977 he became the chief minister of tamilnadu. MGR died on 24.12.87 due to kidney failure.

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Jayalalitha Childhood Photos

Jaya was born in Mysore as Komalavalli in a Tamil Iyengar family. After losing her father at the age of two, her family fell into poverty. She was educated at the Bishop Cotton Girls High School in Bangalore but later she moved to Tamil Nadu along with her mother Sandhya, who ventured as an actress into Tamil cinema.She was then schooled at Sacred Heart Matriculation School of Presentation Convent in ChennaiShe excelled in academics and has claimed that she was offered a scholarship for higher studies from Government of India, but with the guidance from her mother, young Jayalalitha moved into film industry.She started acting most of her well known hits when she was 15.

She has an elder brother named Vasudevan. Vasudevan is about 8 years older and lives with his wife Vedavalli in Shrirangarajpur near Mysore. He lost his son Venugopal in an accident.

Prior to her venture into politics, she had a successful career in the Tamil film industry as an actress. She acted in the English language movie "Epistle" released in 1961 produced by Shankar Giri, son of former president of India Dr. V.V. Giri. Chinnada Gombe, her first film (in Kannada) was a major hit. Her first Telugu film Manushulu Mamathalu made her famous. In 1972, she was honoured by the Tamil Nadu government with the award Kalaimamani. She has acted opposite Dharmendra in the Hindi Movie named Izzat. Her last film was Nadhiyai Thedi Vandha Kadal in the year 1980. She has sung the following songs in her film career: 1. 'amma yendraal anbu' from adimaippeN (1969) Sung by J. Jayalalitha Lyrics by Vaali Music by K.V. Mahadevan 2. 'Oh meri dilruba’ from sooriyakaanthi (1973) Sung by TMS & J. Jayalalitha Lyrics by Vaali Music by M.S. Viswanathan 3. ‘naan endraal adhu’ from sooriyakaanthi (1973) Sung by SPB & J. Jayalalitha Lyrics by Vaali & Randor Guy Music by M.S. Viswanathan 4. ‘kangalil aayiram’ from vandhaale maharaasi (1973) Sung by TMS & J. Jayalalitha Lyrics by Vaali Music by Shankar-Ganesh 5. ‘iru maangani pol’ from vairam (1974) Sung by SPB & J. Jayalalitha Lyrics by Kannadasan Music by T.R. Papa

6. ‘chithira mandabathil’ from anbai thedi (1974) Sung by TMS & J. Jayalalitha Lyrics by Kannadasan Music by M.S. Viswanathan 7. ‘thirumangalyam kolluam murai’ from thirumangalyam (1974) Sung by P.Suseela & J. Jayalalitha Lyrics by Kannadasan Music by M.S. Viswanathan 8. ‘ulagam oru naaL pirandhadhu’ from thirumangalyam (1974) Sung by J. Jayalalitha Lyrics by Kannadasan Music by M.S. Viswanathan 9. ‘madrasu mailu’ from unnai sutrum ulagam Sung by J. Jayalalitha & L.R. Eswari Lyrics by Vaali Music by Shankar-Ganesh 10. ‘maaRi varum ulaginilE’ Sung by J. Jayalalitha Music by Kunnakkudi Vaidyanathan

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Politics

In 1981, she joined the AIADMK and was nominated to the Rajya Sabha in 1988, marking her entry into the Parliament of India. Her association with politics grew from her affair with M. G. Ramachandran (popularly known as M.G.R), movie star and then Chief Minister. According to well documented media reports and several publications, including books and journals, Jayalalithaa and M. G. Ramachandran had a long period of extramarital relationship], and her position as MGR's mistress helped her to become his political heir However, the authenticity of these publications are disputable. The tabloid magazines constantly politicised what was possibly a good friendship between M.G.R and Jayalalitha. On M.G.R's death, she was alienated by a faction of the party who chose to support M.G R's wife Janaki Ramachandran. Drawing on her massive popularity and her image as the "wronged woman",[citation needed] in 1989, she won the elections to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly—incidentally, becoming the first woman to be elected Leader of the Opposition. She accused that the then ruling party, the DMK (Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam - Dravidian People's Party), who allegedly tried to assault her in the assembly, and there, she reportedly took an oath to enter the assembly house only as chief minister.[citation needed] In 1991, following the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, just days before the elections, her alliance with Indian National Congress paid off as a sympathy wave propelled the coalition to a massive victory. She was re-elected to the legislative assembly and became the first elected woman chief minister of Tamil Nadu, serving the full tenure (24 June 1991 - 12 May 1996) (Janaki Ramachandran technically became the first woman chief minister following her husband's death, but she was unelected and presided over a transitional 'caretaker' government). Due to an anti-incumbency wave, and several allegations of corruption and malfeasance against her and her ministers, she lost power to the DMK in 1996, in a landslide defeat. All the ministers in her erstwhile cabinet, including her, were defeated in the elections and six of them even lost their deposits, an indication that they did not even secure the minimum number of votes expected of them. She returned to power with a huge majority in the 2001 elections, having mustered a bigger coalition and defying many pre-poll predictions. In the last assembly elections held in 2006, her party had to relinquish power to the DMK government.

During the years out of power, she had to face a number of criminal lawsuits related to her first term rule, mostly dealing with embezzlement and monetary fraud. In 2001, a specially designated court convicted her of criminal breach of trust and of illegally acquiring governmental property belonging to TANSI, a state-run agency, and sentenced her to five years' imprisonment. She appealed against the sentence to the Supreme Court of India. While the appeal was under judicial consideration, the conviction disqualified her from contesting the 2001 elections. However, having led her party to victory, she controversially became the Chief Minister as a non-elected member of the assembly.

On 21 September 2001 a five-judge constitutional bench of the Supreme Court of India ruled that "a person who is convicted of a criminal offence and sentenced to imprisonment for a period of not less than two years cannot be appointed the Chief Minister of a State under Article 164 read with and cannot continue to function as such". Thereby, the bench decided that "in the appointment of Ms. Jayalalithaa as Chief Minister there has been a clear infringement of a Constitutional provision and that a writ of quo warranto must issue".

In effect, her appointment as Chief Minister was declared null and invalid. Therefore, technically, she was not the Chief Minister in the period between 14 May 2001 and 21 September 2001. O. Panneerselvam, a minister, was subsequently installed as the Chief Minister. However, his government was widely believed to have been puppeted and micro-managed by Jayalalithaa. In 2003, the Supreme Court acquitted her in the specific case, for lack of conclusive evidence to convict her. This cleared the way for her to contest a mid-term poll to the Andipatti constituency, after the elected representative for the seat, gave up his membership. Winning the election by a handsome margin, Jayalalithaa took over the Chief Ministership again. She is still a party to a few criminal litigations from her first term rule in the courts in the neighbouring Karnataka state[citation needed].

After the 2006 assembly elections, O. Panneerselvam was elected the AIADMK legislature party leader and hence the Leader of the Opposition in the assembly, after she decided not to attend the assembly except if "absolutely necessary". However she, by virtue of her strong control over her party, was considered to be the de-facto leader of the opposition in the state. Later that month when all the attending AIADMK MLAs were suspended, she started attending the assembly. She was elected the legislature party leader and now (as of 2006) leads the opposition in the assembly.

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