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She is black and brown and always alert. Chinnaponnu, an Indie stray dog at Park Railway Station in Chennai has become an overnight sensation. Chinnaponnu, in Tamil, means little girl. She barks at passengers who travel by footboard and chases away people who cross tracks. Meet Chinnaponnu, the RPF’s best…
In Tiruvallur district’s Chinnamapet, an illegally run liquor store serves alcohol from 6.30 am onwards. From 12 noon, a government run TASMAC (Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation) outlet takes over. While this place is heaven for tipplers, residents rue that their youngsters and husbands are getting addicted to alcohol. What…
Close to 70 families live in makeshift tents and houses put together with scrap wood in Broadway and Pookadai, Chennai. These residents want better, safer, more hygienic surrounds. But having lived here for generations, they want the state to relocate them to a nearby area and not to far flung…
Yashodammal, 65, has been a flower seller for as long as she can remember. And she says that since the “notes were changed” (meaning demonetisation), business has taken a tremendous hit. Now, she struggles to make ends meet. The debtor is always round the corner and a temple near her…
The Lede tracks down the sales of marijuana, commonly known as ganja in Tiruvallur and surrounds. Watch what we found in the video above.…
It is an art form of yore. Street theatre, or Therukoothu, was once not just a form of entertainment and storytelling for the masses, but was also one of the key art forms that propagated and spread the message of the Dravidian movement far and wide across Tamil Nadu. This…