Tamil-Nadu on Epistlehttps://epistle.deadrat.in/tags/tamil-nadu/Recent content in Tamil-Nadu on EpistleHugoen-usWed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000The Price of Three Rupees: State Violence, Impunity, and the Manjolai Labourers Massacrehttps://epistle.deadrat.in/posts/manjolai-labourers-massacre/Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://epistle.deadrat.in/posts/manjolai-labourers-massacre/In 1999, seventeen Dalit tea estate workers drowned in the Thamirabarani River while fleeing a brutal police assault in Tirunelveli. Decades later, the official response remains a study in institutional impunity.Vachathi: State Violence, Collective Guilt, and the Thirty-Year Road to Convictionhttps://epistle.deadrat.in/posts/vachathi-justice-struggle/Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://epistle.deadrat.in/posts/vachathi-justice-struggle/Three decades after a joint force of forest, police, and revenue officials raided a tribal hamlet in Dharmapuri, the Madras High Court’s affirmation of their convictions exposes the mechanics of state impunity.Half a Measure of Rice: The Keezhvenmani Massacre and the Legal Shield of Feudal Classhttps://epistle.deadrat.in/posts/keezhvenmani-massacre/Thu, 25 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://epistle.deadrat.in/posts/keezhvenmani-massacre/In 1968, forty-four Dalit agricultural labourers were locked in a hut and burned alive in Kizhavenmani for demanding a wage increase. The subsequent High Court acquittal of the landlords established a pattern of institutional impunity.