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“Custodial Death of Father-Son Sparks Outrage in Tamil Nadu.” Looking at headlines like this one, we truly begin questioning justice and its play in society. On Friday evening (June 19th) at Sathankulam, Tirunelveli district, father Jayaraj, and his son Bennicks were arrested by the police for keeping their shops open for an extended time thanContinueContinue reading “Justice & Power – The death of a Father and Son at Sathankulam, Tamil Nadu”

“It’s like chasing a mirage. There’s a story I read of this guy who’s dying of thirst in a desert. He sees a mirage and runs towards it, only to find nothing. He sees another mirage a while later. He’s aware of his situation now, but he runs anyway because he’s dying. This is whatContinueContinue reading “A ‘Rising Star’ gone too soon – Sushant Singh Rajput”

Vijay’s* father was dying, and his mother did not have the money to save him, so she exchanged her eleven-year-old son’s labor for 10,000 Indian rupees (an advance paid in exchange for manual labor), thinking it would save her husband. Alas, the father died, and the child was deprived of an education and taken byContinueContinue reading “Let Them Dream”

The brutal killing of a man thousands of kilometers from home, on a continent I have never been to. I am neither black nor white, I am brown, and yet this brutality meted out to George Floyd still affects me and I wonder why? Is it because of the visuals that stun me on everyContinueContinue reading “#Livesmatter”