Inside Tamil Nadu's thirsty villages

IMAGE: A boy collects drinking water for his family from a small well dug into a beach in Chennai. Photograph: Reuters With a 60 per cent rainfall deficit in 2016, Tamil Nadu is witnessing its......

Citizen speak: What 'Amma' meant to them

Rediff.com's A Ganesh Nadar speaks to two of the mourners outside Rajaji Hall and tries to find out what J Jayalithaa means to the common folk in Tamil Nadu. Tamil Nadu’s Chief Minister J......

From Tamil Nadu, another tale of wasted youth, and murder

Three engineering students from Tuticorin are in jail for their college principal's murder. A Ganesh Nadar finds out what went wrong. As he got out of his car in the college parking lot at 8:30 am......

Tirunelveli bags national honour disabled care

Tamil Nadu was the first state to show the way for the welfare of the mentally disabled in the country. Now Tirunelveli, a city corporation in the southern part of the state, has won acclaim from......

'IPL high price won't add to my stress'

Until he was 24, Varun Chakravarthy was making a living as an architect.Three years later, an IPL team paid Rs 84 million for his spinning skills! IMAGE: Varun Chakravarthy, the 27-year-old......