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1 month ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Saatvika Radhakrishna |Sharada Srinivasan |Vaishna Roy
“As a mother, I was not prepared to accept that my child has special needs, in fact, I didn’t even know what a special child was,” Radha Nandakumar, managing trustee of Gurukulam Centre for Children with Special Needs, admitted during a panel discussion in Chennai.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Saatvika Radhakrishna |Mujibur Rehman |Vaishna Roy
“I still use checkbooks at the bank and don’t own credit cards, debit cards, or any net banking app,” says R. Sampathkumar, an octogenarian from Chennai. A retired deputy manager from Indian Oil Corporation, he is recovering from knee surgery performed seven months ago. He lives with his wife in Chromepet and receives a Rs.5,300 annuity from Life Insurance Corporation. Dependent on his children for most needs, he tells Frontline that people often forget about seniors like him.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Saatvika Radhakrishna |Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay |Vaishna Roy
“We have no hopes of seeing our college campus before we graduate,” said Srinivas, a third-year MBBS student from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) college, Madurai. Standing in one of the classrooms on the fifth floor of Government Ramanathapuram Medical College (GRMC), where three MBBS batches are currently accommodated, he told Frontline that he and his classmates were “disappointed” about not receiving the “AIIMS college experience” they were expecting.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Saatvika Radhakrishna |Divya Gandhi |Vaishna Roy
The latest hooch tragedy in Kallakurichi, Tamil Nadu (TN), in which 61 people died after consuming methanol-spiked moonshine, has triggered State-wide concern over the rampant availability of illicit liquor. On June 24, The Hindu reported that over 100 people were admitted to government hospitals in Kallakurichi, Villupuram, Salem, and Puducherry. Inadequate policies and the ineffectiveness of local authorities in curbing the sale of hooch have come to the fore.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Saatvika Radhakrishna |Nirupama Subramanian |Vaishna Roy
Zha Family Salon’s second branch opened in Gandhimaa Nagar, one of Coimbatore’s premier commercial localities, on May 26. Less than a month after its opening, business has picked up. A pre-teen boy is getting a haircut when Kausalya Shankar, the salon’s 27-year-old owner and founder, walks in with a box of newly delivered hair products. Sporting a neat bob, Kausalya sits in front of a shampoo washbasin and places a hose inside.
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Saatvika Radhakrishna |Paranjoy Guha Thakurta |Abir Dasgupta |Vaishna Roy
“We are here because we are excited to see the Prime Minister, the brightest leader in our country,” said Sangeetha, a resident of T. Nagar who was attending Narendra Modi’s roadshow in Chennai, Tamil Nadu on April 9. PM Modi commenced his two-day visit to the State with a road show that started from Panagal Park in T. Nagar and went up to Teynampet, a distance of about two kilometres.
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Saatvika Radhakrishna
“We are here because we are excited to see the Prime Minister, the brightest leader in our country,” said Sangeetha, a resident of T. Nagar who was …
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Saatvika Radhakrishna |Satish Deshpande |Vaishna Roy
In September 2021, A Kavitha (42), a hearing-impaired resident of Navamal Kapperi village in Tamil Nadu’s Villupuram municipality, contested the local body election, marking a watershed moment for the State’s differently-abled community. In fact, this was not Kavitha’s first attempt.
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Mar 28, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Saatvika Radhakrishna |Satish Deshpande |Vaishna Roy
Vikalp Sangam, a coalition of civil society groups, activists, researchers, and rights networks across India, has issued a statement expressing solidarity with the ongoing movement in Ladakh demanding constitutional measures to protect the region’s land, culture, environment, and economic interests. The statement by the Vikalp Sangam General Assembly and other networks supports the key demands raised by Ladakhis—inclusion under the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution and full statehood.
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Mar 28, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Saatvika Radhakrishna |Satish Deshpande |Vaishna Roy
Vikalp Sangam, a coalition of civil society groups, activists, researchers, and rights networks across India, has issued a statement expressing solidarity with the ongoing movement in Ladakh demanding constitutional measures to protect the region’s land, culture, environment, and economic interests. The statement by the Vikalp Sangam General Assembly and other networks supports the key demands raised by Ladakhis—inclusion under the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution and full statehood.
