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The common thread running through TN protests

In the circumstances, an independent probe alone would establish the truth, starting from Koodangulam. It is more so in the case of Marina violence, which may even at this late hour hold a candle to the events and developments in Thoothukudi, says N Sathiya Moorthy.

5 years later, India's longest anti-nuke agitation may have fizzled out

A pandal, just outside the local church, that once had thousands of protesters flocking there and shouting slogans, is strangely silent.

'It's a message for all protestors: If you join, you are dead'

'They should have spoken to the Sterlite protestors when they were sitting in the villages. They should not have waited for them to come to Tuticorin.' What started off as a lone village grumbling about ground water pollution on Tuesday turned into a battlefield. What thus started off as a lone village grumbling about ground water pollution on Tuesday finally turned into a battle field. A Ganesh Nadar reports.

Why are TN police so keen to jail anti-nuke activist?

'All this for only one reason -- that I oppose the government's nuclear power policy.' 'They will not break my resolve.' 'I will stand by my principle, which is to point out that nuclear energy is not safe.'

President addresses forum in Tirunelveli

Udayakumar files petition against Intelligence Bureau

S P Udayakumar, who has been accused of 'getting the prime minister's goat', is not one to take things lying down.

'We plan to stop Sterlite'

'If the BJP comes back to power, Sterlite will open in one week.' 'If the Congress comes to power, it will open in one month.'

Can the lone BJP MP in TN retain his seat?

Pon Radhakrishnan is also a Union minister of state. His opponent is the richest candidate in Tamil Nadu.

Why did 100 whales get beached in Tuticorin?

A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com spends a day at the Manapaddu beach in Tuticorin where nearly 100 whales were mysteriously beached and many died despite the best efforts of the fishermen and authorities.

'What's more important? Feeding people or enriching 1 person?'

'Why should farmers who give us food be vacated to hand over their property to a private company held by one individual,' asks green activist S P Udaykumar.

'KNPP produces 24 million units of power a day'

R S Sundar, the site director of KNPP, on how the plant is producing 1,000 MW of nuclear power, the largest in the country.

Meenakshipuram, 33 years on: Muslims happy, Hindus not

A Ganesh Nadar visits the village in Tamil Nadu that shot into national prominence in 1981 when half the Dalits there converted to Islam. He spoke to the Hindus and Muslims and came back with two very different stories.