SYCOPHANCY hits dizzying heights in Tamil Nadu every year on February 24. Ask any AIADMK leader and he will tell you that it was on this day, 48 years ago,that the state was blessed by the birth of the great Puratchi Thalaivi (revolutionary leader), the lighthouse of peninsular India, the goddess of the south, the champion of the downtrodden, the light that shines in the darkness and the godmother and saviour of Tamils. Praise does not come to the Tamil Nadu chief minister as a shower. It is almost always in a deluge.