A social activist based in Vadipatti taluk in Madurai district was thrashed with an iron rod on Friday allegedly for his activism against illegal stone quarrying. M. Gnanasekaran, 32, who was vocal against the operation of stone quarries in and around his area, recently exposed activities of a stone quarry at Katchakatti which operated beyond its licence period. As he …
For photographer Jaisingh Nageswaran, Christmas has always been about coming home. Jaisingh has shifted base to his village and started archiving his family history, for he feels “there are no proper archives of Dalit lives in modern India”. If I don’t tell these stories, who will?” When he googled Dalit life in India, he found most of the information available …