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Dalit youth's death: Madras HC orders protection for girl, family
Fp Archives •The Madras HC bench directed the DGP to provide protection to Divya and her family, if not already provided.
Activists arrested for protesting Dalit's death in TN
Fp Archives •The agitators raised slogans against the PMK and its leaders.
Dalit death in TN: How the Dravidian project has been hijacked
Fppolitics •Tamil Nadu once gave birth to the self-respect movement aimed at social emancipation of the socially backward communities. That project has been perverted today, with Dalits facing the brunt of caste exploitation from Other Backward Classes.
Photos: Marriage at centre of caste violence in Tamil Nadu ends tragically
Fp Staff •The ill-fated marriage between the couple Ilavarasan and Divya, from different castes is said to have sparked caste-related violence in Tamil Nadu. Here's their story in images.
The tragedy of Ilavarasan and caste politics in Tamil Nadu
Fp Staff •The death of a boy whose marriage to an upper caste girl sparked caste-based violence across the state was found dead near railway tracks.
Dharmapuri: Inter-caste marriage that sparked riots now in legal tangle
Pramod •The love-marriage of a caste-Hindu girl and a Dalit boy that led to the arson and violence against three Dalit villages in Dharmapuri, in which about 270 houses were gutted and 1500 people fled, appeared to be in trouble on Thursday.