How one woman took on India’s Dosa King before the MeToo era
Live MintHere’s a counterfactual: had social media existed in 2001, with its hashtags and viral videos, would the powerful Pitchai Rajagopal have managed to get away with his single-minded sexual pursuit of a former employee’s daughter for over half a decade? By the middle of 2001, Rajagopal had become brazenly open and persistent in his determination to prise Jeevajothi away from Prince and take her as his third wife, his second chinna veedu. An astrologer, identified in police records as Ravi of Madipakkam, a Chennai suburb, had told Rajagopal that his horoscope matched with Jeevajothi’s, and marrying her would take him to the pinnacle of his achievements. Please allow him to come out on bail.”’ Murder on the Menu, By Nirupama Subramanian, Juggernaut Books, 208 pages, ₹499 Rajagopal’s sons were grown up by then, and the elder one, Shiva Kumaar, who had studied hotel management in Switzerland, was looking after the Dubai outlet of Saravana Bhavan, the restaurant’s first, and at that time the only, international franchise. Through August of 2001, until the police caught up with him in November that year, Rajagopal’s singlepoint plan was to instal Jeevajothi as his second chinna veedu.
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