Statutory Warning: Sambhar Mafia is Inflammatory

Chennai Chronicle, the city supplement of Deccan Chronicle has a feature on how bloggers are tracking the TN Polls (Thanks to Vijay Krishna for the tip). This article is quite identical to the earlier DNA article that I had linked to. The only difference in the DC article is a reference to my recent post-titled “Going Rates”. Divya Subramanian of DC goes on to say that my post was inflammatory. I wonder whether the offensive words used in my blog’s title had anything to do with DC terming my post as inflammatory.

One inflammatory blog posted by a certain Sambhar Mafia - Cooked To Kill!, spoke about the going rates for film stars like Sarath Kumar, Radhika, Simran and Kamal Haasan to campaign for Amma. A certain ‘informed’ blogger claims that Vaiko got Rs 40 crore and the whole Sarath Kumar, Selvi and Thaka Thaka Thaka Thaka Thanga Vettai package was ‘sold’ for Rs 20 crore.

A certain Dreamchaser aka Embezzlers posted some additional details as well, saying “Simran was offered 2 crore initially and was promised 25 lakh for every talk she makes on the stage around Chennai and Tamil Nadu. She recently made one in Tambaram (Chennai), just think about 10 speeches a month, which would fetch her Rs 2.5 crore.”

All I have done is collate rumours that have been doing the rounds in various forms of media (Internet, Junior Vikatan, Kumudham Reporter, Nakheeran etc) and present it as a blog post. This is what those magazines have been doing for a living. Just try to compare the reach of the Tamil investigative magazines and this poor blog. I leave it for you to decide as to which one is more inflammatory.

Update: Dreamchaser has images of the article here.