Urimai Kural, part of the Gram Vaani community radio station that spans 15 states, serves as a much-needed helpline for harassed garment factory workers.
Are prisoners dying in Tamil Nadu jails due to lack of medical attention?
'The Telangana police are working on the same agenda against Muslims as the Modi government at the Centre.'
A report released by Human Rights Watch states that police regularly disregard arrest procedures and torture suspects in custody to death. The police often blame the deaths on suicide or illness.
'The Tamil Nadu government should ask Andhra Pradesh to speed up the investigation.'
'Why don't they suggest artificial intelligence training for SC/STs?' 'Why can't they be trained in computer programming?'
A Ganesh Nadar, who once met V Prabhakaran at the LTTE's press conference in Jaffna, feels Madras Cafe is not at all about the Tigers.
'Oh, this is printed material which is sent to everyone along with the ATM card,' the bank manager told me. 'It won't work because the system has changed.' A Ganesh Nadar encounters the Indian banking system.
'The copying mafia is very powerful. We need to use technology to fight them.'
Sneha Sharma is shattering speed and societal barriers.
'We know that if the IT industry goes on strike even for a day or two, the repercussions will be international, and we will suffer as a country.' 'We don't want that to happen.'
'The government says it is trying to improve the institute, but its latest appointments say otherwise.'
President Kalam was loved by the youth of India. Something evidenced by the mass of student volunteers who have arrived in Rameswaram to mourn and to help out other mourners who have arrived in the island town to pay their last homage to India's 'Missile Man.'
'They have started an institute, the Academy of Training and Sensitisation, for prison officials near Vellore.' 'This institute has been started by the Union home ministry and it is meant for all the four southern states.'
'They plan to purchase votes.' 'We will not purchase people, but win the elections.' 'In our manifesto there are no free gifts. It says what we will do for the people.'
Sunil Paliwal is managing director of Aavin, the highly successful milk cooperative of the Tamil Nadu government. He has worked with J Jayalalithaa for 12 years. He pays tribute to the departed leader.
'We would have joined them if they wanted to develop the college, but their motive is political.'
The co-founder of Feeding India is changing the way India deals with wasted food.
'There is a mafia operating in that area that lends money to these labourers. Loans are paid off with red sandalwood. The actual smugglers don't need to come to the area.'
The Chandigarh government is trying to ensure that students from the north-east are not discriminated against.
'I am here to point out what is wrong. I bring it to the public's attention. The law has to give justice. I cannot do that.' 'We are activists and used to attacks. The more pressure we are up against, the more active we become. That is part of our life.'
'The food the Sri Lankans gave us was horrible. It used to stink. We used to throw most of it away... In the night my legs used to be in someone's face and his legs used to be in my lap. There was no space... There was no toilet... Both our bathing water and drinking water were salty. We had to beg the guards for clean drinking water.' Rediff.com's A Ganesh Nadar speaks to Indian fishermen just released from Sri Lankan custody.
When over a hundred fishermen from Tamil Nadu were arrested by the Sri Lankan navy and their boats seized last month, fishermen in coastal Tamil Nadu went on strike. Rediff.com's A Ganesh Nadar visits the coastal towns of Nagapattinam and Rameswaram to discover that the fishermen do not have many choices.
A group of 'queer' and 'cis queer' women in Chennai have come together to form this space on Facebook where they can interact with like-minded girls about themselves and their day to day problems.
Satyarup Siddhanta is the youngest mountaineer in the world to climb both the Seven Summits and the Seven Volcanic Summits.
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