By Perumal Murugan In 1991, when 25-year-old Perumal Murugan published his first novel, Eru Veyyil, he made a splash in Tamil literary circles. Although only 1,200-odd copies were printed in the first run (half of them were sent to libraries […]
March 13, 2016. It was a lazy Sunday afternoon, until a CCTV footage of an unknown couple hacked by mercenaries in broad daylight in the town of Udumalpet in Tiruppur district started to make the rounds. Soon, it would emerge […]
Last week, Kausalya, 23, learnt with shock and bewilderment about the judgement of the Madras High Court on June 22, which so gravely undermined her courageous struggle for justice for her murdered husband Shankar. They were victims of what is […]
In a display of communal harmony, six Muslim volunteers of an outfit helped a Hindu family to perform the last rites of an 80-year-old man in a containment zone in Perambai, near Puducherry. According to A. Ahmad Ali, president of […]
CHENNAI: Spurred on by U.S. anti-racism protests, lower-caste Dalits on Wednesday called on India to acknowledge centuries of oppression they have endured and recognise that “every life matters”. Dalits are at the bottom of India’s ancient caste hierarchy, whose membership […]
The 23-year-old social activist plans to move the Supreme Court against the Madras HC verdict exonerating her father in the murder case of her husband. Kausalya Shankar (23) still cannot believe how her father Chinnaswamy, facing the death sentence as […]
CHENNAI: Four years and a quarter after the caste killing of dalit youth Shankar in Udumalpet, TN, the first-accused Chinnaswamy escaped the noose when the Madras high court acquitted him of all charges on Monday. He was among six men […]
CHENNAI: The Madras high court on Monday set aside the death sentence awarded to five accused in the Udmalpet Shankar honour killing case and modified them to life imprisonment for a minimum of 25 years without any right to remission. […]
New Delhi: Tamil Nadu additional chief secretary Jagmohan Singh Raju, a Dalit IAS officer of the 1985 batch, used to think caste bias was a thing of the past for India. Now, four years after his elevation as additional secretary […]
In 2019, Scroll.in’s Hard Times series sought to explain and illustrate how India’s slowest economic growth in a decade was affecting ordinary people. This followed reporting by Scroll.in in 2016 and 2017 on the effects that demonetisation had on the […]
