T-shirt with ‘Jai Bhim’ slogan helped identify Nandhish and his wife Swati, whose faces were disfigured Nandhish was perhaps unaware that his last act of defiance would be his attire in death. On November 10, he slipped into a sky […]
A few shops and establishments remained shut at Karumathampatti in Coimbatore on Saturday with Dalit organisations observing the death anniversary of Segudanthali Murugesan who was murdered by people from a dominant intermediate caste in 1999. The area also came under […]
TIRUPUR: Children of people, who vehemently opposed the appointment of woman to the post of cook on deputation under the noon-meal scheme at the Thirumalaigoundanpalayam Government in Avinashi taluk, are back to school. But unlike earlier, they carry with themselves […]
Members of a dominant community ransacked the houses of Dalits at Thamarakki, near here, enraged after a dalit man ‘eloped’ with a woman from the dominant community. Sathish, 25, had gone missing with the 32-year-old woman and her seven-year-old son […]
The severe cyclonic storm made landfall between Nagapattinam and Vedaranyam in the early hours of Friday. Cyclone Gaja, which turned into a severe cyclonic storm on Thursday, made landfall between Nagapattinam and Vedaranyam in the early hours of Friday. According […]
CHENNAI: Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe students of a private engineering college in the suburbs were last week not allowed to enter their exam hall for half an hour as punishment for the government not paying the fees. The Tamil […]
The family, in its petition, said it had not given its consent to anyone to produce a film on their daughter and despite approaching the filmmaker several times, the movie was not dropped. Chennai: The family of S Anitha, the […]
There is an unambiguous political ideology distinction emerging in Tamil Nadu. On one side, you have “Superstar” Rajinikanth, an actor who has openly shown fealty to the Bharatiya Janata Party — especially with his latest comment about how the Opposition […]
Yet another gruesome incident of rape and murder, this time of a 16-year-old tribal girl, was reported in a village in Tamil Nadu. A few weeks earlier, a 13-year-old Dalit girl was hacked to death near Attur in Salem district […]
In this interview, Pa Ranjith speaks about the responses to ‘Pariyerum Perumal’, caste glorification in cinema, Me Too movement and the recent murder of a young Dalit girl in Salem. As you enter director Pa Ranjith’s office in Egmore, Chennai, […]
