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R. Ilangovan

Ilangovan Rajasekaran is Associate Editor in Frontline. In his more than three decades experience in Indian Express, The Hindu and Frontline he has been a witness to many churnings, both political and social, in Tamil Nadu. The issue of rights violations of Dalits, tribal people and other disadvantageous groups has been the focus of his reporting and it resulted in the exposure of atrocities against humanity, among them the Dalit uprising in Kodiyankulam village in the 1990s and the police violence against the tribal people of Gundupatti in the Palani Hills in 2001. He brought to light the continuance of the feudal practice of kuda olai (draw of lots from a pot) for selecting village panchayat chiefs around Madurai. The environment is another area of his interest.

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Theatre

Refined recreation

R. Ilangovan

The stage adaptation of “Ponniyin Selvan”, presented in Chennai in June by Magic Lantern, ...

Balu Mahendra

Visual poet

R. ILANGOVAN

Balu Mahendra (1939-2014), the award-winning cinematographer and director, made lyrical ...

Interview

Celebrating diversity

R. Ilangovan

Yaadhum, a documentary tracing the roots of Tamil Muslims, evocatively portrays a ...

Martelli’s sigh of relief

R. Ilangovan

The verdict commuting the death sentence of four people convicted in the Palar bomb blast ...

‘I have been framed’

R. Ilangovan

Interview with Subash Chandra Kapoor.

Investigation

The great Indian idol robbery

R. ILANGOVAN

The arrest of the Indian American art dealer Subash Chandra Kapoor in Tamil Nadu in 2012 ...

Nammalvar

Soldier of nature

R. ILANGOVAN

Govindasamy Nammalvar, 1938-2013, carried on a crusade in Tamil Nadu to free agriculture ...

Controversy

Seeing beyond Sadir

R. Ilangovan

An interpretation of the role played by the Dravidian movement in liberating devadasis ...

Police reforms

Reluctant move

R. Ilangovan

Legal experts and activists describe the Tamil Nadu ordinance on police reforms as “a ...

Interview: Kamal Hassan

‘There is no separate pedestal for the performer’

R. Vijaya SankarR. Ilangovan

Kamal Hassan. Having been part of the film world for 54 of his 58 years, Kamal Hassan is ...

Cover Story

Taking on patriarchy

R. ILANGOVAN in Chennai SAGNIK DUTTA in New Delhi

In Tamil Nadu, there are Muslim women activists fighting on all fronts for gender ...

Ambiguities and clarifications

R. Ilangovan

Interview with Justice C.S. Karnan.

Spotlight

Fetters on freedom

R. ILANGOVAN

In acting at the behest of the police to cancel the lecture of Islamic scholar Amina ...

Greenspace

Back from the brink

R. ILANGOVAN recently in Salem

Citizens’ participation in the governance of public assets such as waterbodies in the ...

Manual scavenging

Death in the gutter

R. ILANGOVAN

The death of two workers in a sewage tank in Chennai revives the call for the eradication ...

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Birds of Dandeli forest

The Dandeli forest in Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka is a birder’s delight that offers rewarding sightings of a myriad of avian species.
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