Tag: Tamil Nadu
Affordable Housing Will Help ‘Exploited’ Workers In Tirupur: Activists
By Anuradha Nagaraj
Chennai: A proposed new township for garment industry workers in textile hub of Tirupur in Tamil Nadu will tackle the problem of...
Tirupur Is India’s ‘Dollar City’. But Signs That Thousands Work In...
By Anuradha Nagaraj
Chennai: A fish tank with expensive Arowana fish is prominently displayed in many factories making hosiery in the southern textile hub of...
‘Help, He Forces Himself On Us’: Appeal From Tamil Nadu Mill...
A letter from six women at a spinning mill in Tamil Nadu, describing the sexual harassment they face at work and asking for help,...
The Gory Truth About Tamil Nadu’s Private Orphanages
Chennai: Dhanalakshmi was 14 and pregnant when she was rescued from a children's home in Tamil Nadu.
She had been entrusted in the care of...
‘The Nights Are Unbearable’ Say Wives Of Men Stranded In Gulf
Most of the 'women left behind' married the men when they returned for a short break from working abroad, and 90 percent of them have never travelled to their spouse's country of work.
Why Small Farmers In Tamil Nadu Borrow Money At 60% Interest
In October 2014 Karuppasamy (name changed), a farmer in Tamil Nadu's western district of Pudukkottai, had no choice but to rent a pump-set to...
Street Children Back Campaign To Find Missing Youngsters
A group of street children is the face of a new citizens' campaign demanding better policing and community programmes to track missing children in...
Meet Tamil Nadu’s First Transgender Noon Meal Organiser
In a first, a transgender has been appointed as a noon meal organiser at a government school in Tamil Nadu's Tiruvannamalai district.