Vidya Sigamany

In one of his walks with his father, Manu Radhakrishnan, visiting his father’s hometown of Kadakkal in Kerala as a schoolboy in the 90s, had come across a compo

It was 5 in the morning on Saturday, May 12 as the Kanyakumari-Dibrugarh Vivek Express pulled into the Ernakulam Town Railway Station in Kerala. The train which serves the longest route in India – Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu to Dibrugarh in Assam – was late by more than five hours, a delay incurred at the point of departure. A mad scramble ensued as sleep deprived men, mostly migrant labourers, jostled to get into the unreserved compartments, eager to secure a seat.

The Madras High Court, in a recent judgement, directed the Tamil Nadu government to provide horizontal reservation to the transgender community in education and

The perception that the south of India was a bulwark against the Bharatiya Janata Party’s brand of Hindutva politics may have taken a beating on Tuesday, June 4

Janata Dal (Secular) MLC Suraj Revanna, who has been accused of sexual assault by two male party workers, allegedly targeted JD(S) workers in their 20s, one of his accusers told TNM.

After the Kallakurichi illicit liquor tragedy rocked the state last month, the familiar demand to enforce total prohibition has resurfaced in Tamil Nadu. Howeve

Activists in Karnataka have renewed their demand for an investigation into Sanatan Sanstha, an extremist Hindutva organisation whose members have been accused i

The Child Welfare Committee (CWC) in Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram is still awaiting an explanation from the Kerala Cricket Association (KCA) about security lapse

It was in 1930, not 1928, that Vigathakumaran (The Lost Child), the first ever Malayalam movie to be made, came out, asserts director JC Daniel’s son Harris, wh

A little after he was rescued after being trapped in a lift for 42 hours, Ravindran Nair heard about Joy, a sanitation worker who was found dead after he went m