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Kavitha Muralidharan is a senior bi-lingual journalist who writes in English and Tamil with an experience of twenty years in covering Tamil Nadu. She has extensively covered Tamil politics and is interested in writing on gender, caste, and culture.
She has worked across many platforms including The Hindu Tamil, India Today, The Week, Deccan Chronicle etc. She is currently an independent journalist writing among other places for The Firstpost, The Wire, The Hindustan Times and The Newsminute. She is also associated with the People's Archive of Rural India (ruralindiaonline.org) - a living journal and an archive of rural India) as a volunteer. She is a writer and translator.
Chennai: Since Monday morning, Tamil Nadu has been coming to terms with the awful facts of the Pollachi extortion racket – in which young women were allegedly lured to secluded spots and molested, filmed in the process, and later…
Rajiv Gandhi Assassination: To Uphold Justice is to Release the Seven Convicts
CHENNAI, India—The seven convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case have already spent 28 years in jail and the campaign to release them cannot be dragged on any further.
The Supreme Court commuted their death sentences to…
Activist Goes Missing Hours After Incriminating Top Cops in Thoothukudi Massacre
A video released by the environmental activist a few days before he went missing from a train while travelling to Madurai from Chennai, S. Mugilan says the "shooting was well planned".
Chennai: Two days after environmental activist…
What Tamil serials teach us about women, weddings, and wickedness
Here’s one thing almost every serial follows: For some reason, heroines switch to sarees after marriage, even if they have to go to medical colleges to continue their education.
Watching Tamil serials can be a spiritually…
In Tamil Nadu, A 400-Year-Old Tradition Of Shadow Puppetry Struggles To Survive
On 1 February, Driver’s Colony at Korukkupet in North Chennai – a space where local political meetings are frequently held – wore an entirely different colour. It was witness to a medley of performances, including Bharatanatyam by the…