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Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Actress
The Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Actress is given by the state government as part of its annual Tamil Nadu State Film Awards for Tamil (Kollywood) films.[1] The awards were first given in 1967 and discontinued after 1970. The awards were given again in 1977 and continued till 1982. The awards were not given in the years 1971 to 1976. This award was last given in the year 2015 to Aishwarya Rajesh for Kaaka Muttai.[2]
List of winnersEdit
Meena (top), Jyothika (bottom) and Saritha have won the award three times each.
Kushboo and Devayani (top and bottom) and K.R.vijaya have won the award two times each.
List of winners and nominated work
K. R. Vijaya
Shanthi Iru Malargal
Mohanambal
(Mohana) Thillaanaa Mohanambal
B. Saroja Devi
Kula Vilakku [3]
Sowcar Janaki
Janaki Iru Kodugal [4]
Namma Veettu Deivam
Latha
Kayalvizhi Madhuraiyai Meetta Sundharapandiyan [5]
Kalyani Oru Nadigai Natakam Parkiral
Oru Vellaadu Vengaiyagiradhu [6]
Suhasini
Viji Nenjathai Killathe [7]
Bhagyalaksmi / Vijaya "Viji" Moondram Pirai [8]
Kannamma Agni Sakshi [6]
Poo Pootha Nandavanam [6]
Raadhika
Ninaivu Chinnam
Revathi
Thaayamma Kizhakku Vasal [9]
Kushboo
Nandhini Chinna Thambi [10]
Sukanya
Deivanai Chinna Gounder
• Vaitheeswari
• Chandramathi • Yejaman
• Sethupathi IPS
Rajashree
Karuthamma Karuthamma
Ganga Kolangal [11]
Kalki Kalki [12]
Maragadham Porkkaalam [13]
Devayani
Nandhini Suryavamsam [13]
Roja Selvamani
Radha Unnidathil Ennai Koduthen [14]
Rukmani "Rukku" Thulladha Manamum Thullum [16]
Chellamal Bharathi [17]
Thavamani Virumbugiren [17]
Meena Kumari Ivan [17]
Manju Pithamagan [18]
Jyothika
Priya/Shenbagam Perazhagan [18]
Chandramukhi and Ganga Senthilnathan Chandramukhi [19]
Priyamani
Mutthazhagu Paruthiveeran [20]
Archana Mozhi [21]
Visalatchi (Sala) Pirivom Santhippom [21]
Padmapriya
Nadira Pokkisham [22]
Mynaa Mynaa [22]
Madhiarasi Vaagai Sooda Vaa [22]
Alli,Archana Kumki, Sundarapandian [22]
Regina James Raja Rani [22]
Kaaka Muttai's mother Kaaka Muttai [22]
^ 'Film News', Anandan (2004). Sadhanaigal Padaitha Thamizh Thiraipada Varalaru (Tamil Film History and Its Achievements). Sivagami Publications. p. 738.
^ "TN Govt. announces Tamil Film Awards for six years". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 14 July 2017. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
^ "Still ready to act: Sowcar Janaki". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 25 December 2006.
^ http://tfmpage.com/forum/archives/21153.20880.03.21.22.html
^ a b c http://www.vanijairam.com/Pages/Vani1978.html
^ http://www.madrastalkies.com/AboutUs.asp?Pagefrm=People&abt_id=5
^ Film News Anandan (2004). Sadhanaigal Padaitha Thamizh Thiraipada Varalaru [Tamil film history and its achievements] (in Tamil). Sivagami Publications.
^ "Revathy - my awards". revathy.com. Archived from the original on 11 September 2007. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
^ https://web.archive.org/web/20091021121856/http://geocities.com/bbreviews/month/cthambi.html
^ "1997 Highlights". Dinakaran. Archived from the original on 1 May 2007. Retrieved 11 August 2009.
^ "1996 State Awards". Dinakaran. Archived from the original on 3 February 1999. Retrieved 11 August 2009.
^ a b "Tamilnadu Government Cinema Awards". Dinakaran. Archived from the original on 3 February 1999. Retrieved 11 August 2009.
^ https://web.archive.org/web/20070404023849/http://www.dinakaran.com/cinema/english/highlights/2000pa2/2000-2.htm
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^ "Tamilnadu Government Announces Cinema State Awards −1999". Dinakaran. Archived from the original on 10 February 2001. Retrieved 20 October 2009.
^ a b c "Tamil Nadu announces film awards for three years". indiaglitz.com. Retrieved 19 October 2009.
^ a b "Tamilnadu State Film Awards – awards for Vikram, Jyotika". cinesouth.com. Retrieved 20 October 2009.
^ "Tamilnadu govt awards Rajini and Kamal". cinesouth.com. Archived from the original on 11 September 2007. Retrieved 20 October 2009.
^ "State Awards for the year 2006 – Govt. of Tamil Nadu". indiaglitz.com. Retrieved 5 July 2009.
^ a b "Rajini, Kamal win best actor awards". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 29 September 2009. Retrieved 28 September 2009.
^ a b c d e f "TN Govt. announces Tamil Film Awards for six years". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 14 July 2017. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
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Black Chef Charges Whites Higher Prices For Their Meals Than Blacks & His White Customers Have No Beef About It At All
VannDigital March 30, 2018
A nice meal and a purposeful advocacy? Tunde Wey, a chef from Nigeria, has been offering both through his pop-up stalls that serve meals and aims to change people's racial perspectives. The lunch counter, commonly known as Saartj, however, received opposing remarks for charging white people more than double the Black people pay for their meals.
Wey installed his first pop-up stall at the Roux Carre market in New Orleans, Louisiana last February. The month-long lunch counter is more than just a meal service, but a sociology experiment as well.
Wey tries to teach a lesson about racial wealth disparity. In New Orleans, the median income among African American households is $25,806, compared to $64,377 for white households. Nationally, the average wealthy black family makes $140,000 while wealthy white families make $919,000, according to the Urban Institute.
After telling this, he would tell his customers the price: $12 standard price and $30 suggested price. Black customers are charged $12 while White customers would have to choose to pay $12 or $30.
"When I tell black folks what's happening, 90 percent of them start laughing, like, 'For real?' They're tickled," Wey laughingly told The Washington Post. "White folks, there's this blank — this blank look. They're like, 'Huh, okay.'"
Wey said that he will not be keeping any profit for himself. The net profit from the sales at the suggested price will rather be redistributed to Black customers who want it.
Social experiment results
Wey did not initially expect favorable results of the experiment. He said he expected White customers not to pay the higher suggested price but it turned out that 80% actually chose to pay the higher price.
Moreover, Black customers said no when he asked if they wanted a refund. Some even tried to pay the suggested price of $30 because "they felt obligated to pay the higher price."
The truth about being Black in America
In 2016, Wey also traveled across the United States for provocative dinner series he called Blackness in America. He and the guests would have conversations about racism, sexism, politics, police brutality, among others, over the meals he prepared.
While there are some who considers it as cathartic, it turns out to be a debate sometimes. "This conversation is supposed to be impolite. It's supposed to be uncomfortable," he told The Washington Post.
On April, Wey will be bringing Saartj to Detroit. But it will not be the same as how he did it in New Orleans. In coordination with Malik Yakini of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network and Devita Davison of FoodLab, Wey continues to educate people through food in order to improve outcomes for African Americans.
For more information about Saartj, visit www.saartj.com
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On March 30, The Other Bunch read from their book, Voices from the Snake River Plain, at the Filer Kiwanis Club. Since Dixie was recovering from knee surgery and still in the hospital, Pat and Bonnie presented the club's program by reading from their book and answering questions about their upcoming workshop, Finding Your Voice. We want to thank the Filer Kiwanis Club for hosting us and being such a gracious audience.
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Kellie Pickler cuts it up
Big kudos to Kellie Pickler for shearing her hair for a cause. Pickler shaved her head in Nashville on Tuesday to bring awareness to cancer. She did so because her best friend, Summer Holt Miller, has breast cancer.
"Cancer does not discriminate," Pickler said in an interview on Good Morning America.
Of course, she is correct, and Pickler has taken a stand to battle breast cancer. Athena Water is giving at least $2 million as well to support the fight against breast cancer.
While everything Pickler has done from a humanistic standpoint is commendable, I wanted to comment on the personal. In her profession, image counts for a whole lot. Pickler cut an image with her blonde hair of course, just as Carrie Underwood does along with other country female singers.
In effect, Pickler was willing to sacrifice part of her image for something bigger than herself. At least, she had the wisdom to realize it's only an image, not something that necessarily defines her. Pickler probably realized that also - in standing up for the cause, she took on a much bigger issue. She has faced a lot in her life - from a dysfunctional family to issues with her record company.
In this day and age, where image counts for way way too much, Pickler is to be commended.


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Writing for the joy of it
As I continue to revisit my old issues of Growing Without Schooling, I share another piece I wrote for Issue #123, on the theme of When Kids Resist Writing. As I re-read these precious old magazines, I remember again why they meant so much.
The piece below was written when my son was 10, about his first foray into writing. The particulars are a bit dated (handwriting was something people still cared about in the 1990s), but I think the story is still relevant. It touches on issues including my ambivalence about whether unschooling would be sustainable (I'm happy to report that it was!) and pressure from family members. To follow up on what happened after I wrote this, my son didn't pick up writing again until he was a teenager, when his love of fantasy novels inspired him to try and write in that genre. Eventually, he enrolled in a college class and wrote his first formal paper with little difficulty. He's now a happy musician who writes all his own PR materials.
I continue to have the good fortune to facilitate creative writing groups for homeschooled kids. Good old paper and pencil are still regularly used, but just as often the tool of choice is a laptop or tablet. No matter the medium, the important part is the joy.
I am the mother of an active, curious 10-year-old who has shown little interest in the physical act of writing. Except for two years (grades 1-2) in an alternative private school, my son has been homeschooled. While his classroom teachers were not big on seat work, they did require a minimum of paperwork. Even then, this was not something my son was drawn to.
Our homeschooling philosophy has essentially been unschooling, but over the past year or so I've spent a lot of time thinking about whether this approach will continue to work. This reevaluating has come about partly as a function of my kids getting older (my daughter is 13) and partly because their father is concerned about their skill levels in academic areas and whether they are "ahead of" or "behind" their peers. I've tried to settle on a compromise approach, but for the most part the only thing I've required is math.
When he first began working in his Saxon math textbook, my son's actual writing of the numbers was so sloppy it was difficult to read. I thought the daily act of writing out the problems would eventually produce neatness, but it hasn't. His answers are legible enough, but his writing out of the problems remains on the messy side. His biggest problem in working on the math lessons has come from this difficulty with neatness. Properly lining up columns in multiplication problems is essential to getting the right answer. My son's solution is to use vertical lines to keep the columns straight. While this works, it's still unacceptable to some adults, who feel that using lines somehow signals a lack of intelligence or ability.
My son's handwriting is also sloppy, and he hates the act of writing longhand. He has received much pressure from his grandparents about this, who talk often with him about the necessity of learning printing and cursive and send him copies of the cursive alphabet to practice with. The times we've tried traditional approaches to handwriting have been horrible battles, and I decided it simply wasn't worth it. The only thing my son writes in cursive is his name, which he learned so he can sign bank deposit slips. In printing, he primarily uses capital letters. When he uses lower case letters, they're often not proportionate with the upper case letters. Yet if he spends enough time, he can write a note neatly enough, as we saw when it was time to write thank yous for holiday gifts.
I really wanted my son to experience writing as a creative act but it was clear that combining this with pencil and paper would be a disaster. So we turned to the computer, which he was already using for making fact sheets and statistical charts about his favorite subject in the world, basketball. As we talked about writing, it became clear that my son wanted to write but was having difficulty coming up with ideas. At first this seemed amazing, since my son's energy and curiosity are notorious and he has been referred to by some as an "idea man." His problem did not really lie in lack of ideas but in the newness of composing a piece of creative writing and in the quandary many writers face: how to begin. Since his biggest love is basketball and most of his reading (besides devouring Calvin and Hobbes books) centers around basketball and the sports page, it seemed logical that he might want to write about that. I threw it out as an idea and started suggesting possible topics.
He bit, and last December he put together a magazine called NBA Cool Stuff, complete with a 1998 projected finish and articles titled Team of the Century, Who Rules the Rim? NBA Top Ten Slammers, and The New Dynasty. In the end, he came up with all his own ideas and really enjoyed sitting at the computer composing his articles. When he finished a piece, we would sit down and talk about punctuation, capitalization, and paragraphing. At first he incorporated none of this, but I was amazed at how quickly he began using periods and capitalizing the first words of sentences.
Shortly after the holidays we finished reading Jean Craighead George's Julie of the Wolves trilogy out loud, and my son liked the books so much he decided to write a sequel. He's currently only written about three or four pages, and who knows how far he'll get, but he's enjoying himself.
One thing I've noticed in both these writing projects is the way my son successfully imitates style. I don't believe he thinks about it in this way when he's writing, but it's clear he's paid close attention in his extensive reading on sports and his listening to our reading aloud together. His NBA Cool Stuff articles are bright and upbeat, with varied sentence structure and plenty of commentary. The novel, which he's calling Julie on the Tundra, is written in a much simpler style, reminiscent of Craighead George's lovely, austere prose. The fact that he is imitating style in no way detracts from the originality of his pieces. He is definitely expressing his own ideas and opinions, and creating new storylines and characters. And, of course, imitation is a tried and true, completely natural step in mastering any discipline. I've observed, too, that although my son (unlike his sister, who began writing spontaneously at the age of 4), has not formally written consistently, he is still able to write at a level of maturity appropriate to or greater than his years. Perhaps this is because he has read and been read to often. It also fits in with what I've observed as his lifelong pattern of learning. He seems to be clueless about or incapable of certain tasks one day, and the next he performs them with ease and competence.
To some adults, and maybe to a teacher if he were in school, the fact that my son doesn't print well might make it seem like he can't compose a piece of writing. But that simply isn't true, and I'm grateful that he's had the opportunity to learn and explore in his own way and avoid being labeled.
Over the last few weeks he seems to be taking a break from writing, and I won't push him. Our experience with these two writing projects has clearly shown me that my son is not only a competent writer but that he also enjoys writing, and I feel confident he will return to it.
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