As the North-East monsoon arrived in all its fury over coastal Tamil Nadu, it brought in its wake a deluge of memes and funny leave requests from students. These are flooding social media platforms.
But it is the way some District Collectors have responded to these student leave requests that is winning the Internet.
Cine lyric
On Friday, a student from Virudhunagar tagged District Collector Meghanath Reddy J on Twitter asking if the TV news announcement about school holiday in the district was indeed true.
His response to the student left Twitterati in splits. “ Paale inga therala payasam kekutha ?,” Reddy tweeted, picking up the popular song lyrics of Dhanush’s recent movie Thiruchitrambalam. The lyrics roughly mean ‘there is no milk and you want pudding’. “Rain – No School – Yes. Wrong News. Sleep soon and wake up for school. Good Night,” Reddy added in his tweet thread.
Earlier this week, Tiruvallur Collector Alby John tweeted that holiday was declared for all…