The family of Srimathi, the 17-year-old girl who committed suicide in Kallakurichi, is among those who refuse to accept bodies of their kin who die under mysterious circumstances. Srimath's suicide has been much in the news now, from the suspicious circumstances of her death, the mob violence...
18 years after elephant poacher Veerappan was killed in an encounter with the Karnataka STF, the poaching of elephants and illegal tusk trade continues unabated by Tamil Nadu-based poachers. In many instances, these smugglers are now being caught in Karnataka and Kerala. In the last 45 days...
The controversy over YouTuber Karthik Gopinath collecting funds on a crowdfunding platform to “renovate” temple statues in Siruvachur of Perambalur in Tamil Nadu, and the State government coming down on him for accumulating money without authorisation has raised the uncomfortable question once...
The G Square-Vikatan-Kevin case is much like the idiyappam that Tamils love. The case flashed in the media when Kevin, described by the police as being associated with the Vikatan Group, was arrested some six hours of the filing of an FIR for trying to extort money from property developer G...
The Supreme Court judgment in the Perarivalan case has important implications for the relationship between the state and central governments as well as in defining the powers of the state government and how much discretion the Governor has. On May 22, the Supreme Court used the extraordinary...
The Sirpurkar commission has found that the encounter in the 2019 Disha rape and murder case in Hyderabad, Telangana, was likely staged and fake. Its revelations make us wonder if the recent Malayalam film Jana Gana Mana said the unsaid in the Disha case. While justice delayed is justice...
The Supreme Court has ordered the release of Rajiv Gandhi assassination case convict A G Perarivalan while six of the convicts in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case continue to be in prison. The grounds for Perarivalan’s release rest on several factors. One was that his role in the assassination...
The movie Jai Bhim talked about a third-year-old case of police atrocities on the Irular, a marginalized tribe. The movie portrayed a particularly egregious case of victimization and brutality. Even today, false cases being foisted on Irular continues, says Prabha Kalvimani, an activist who has...
Key issues in the Kalimedu, Thanjavur, temple car accident include the navigation of such cars and safety precautions that need to be taken by festival organizers. A temple car, which is often a massive structure, requires experience and skill to move and navigate it through streets around the...
During any temple car procession, the standard operating procedure of the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board is to switch off the power in the overhead cables in the streets through which the procession will pass through, said P Muthusamy, former director of engineering at the Tamil Nadu Electricity...
