TIRUNELVELI: Stating that his eight-year long efforts to secure Puthirai Vannar community certificate for his two school-going daughters had failed, a hairdresser from the community has now turned to Chief Minister MK Stalin, and sought his intervention on Monday. C Ragu, a member of the Puthirai Vannar community from Palayamkottai, said that the administration of the government-aided school that both …
Is Leena Manimekalai’s Maadathy “shattering,” “devastating” and thoroughly “harrowing” to watch? But I’m attempting to steer clear of these trite phrases often used by writers to describe films on oppression by a society that is, one could argue, fairly immune to feeling rancour about injustice. Leena’s film foregrounds a pattern: the history of these “nobodies.” Many of these vengeful guardian …
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