With no real action being taken regarding the release of A.G. Perarivalan and six others in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, the state government is undoing years of Jayalalithaa’s work towards championing Tamil Nadu's federal rights.

Despite a study recording at least 81 cases of atrocities against Dalits and tribals during the COVID-19 lockdown in Tamil Nadu, no one is talking about this violence.

Two nine-volt batteries and the two confessions that were progressively distorted have confined him to prison, since being picked up by the CBI after Rajiv Gandhi's assassination in 1991.

On Ambedkar Jayanti, a sobering reflection: Not just the coronavirus, no epidemic can threaten the existence of Dalits to the extent that caste hatred and poverty do. Henceforth, caste, aided by the virus, will valorise the very idea of segregation.

For the BJP, the appointment of Dalits is a strategy it pursues in states where it is not strong in order to get huge political gains in return. This is what it hopes L. Murugan will do for the saffron cause.

After 28 years of struggle, a single signature by the Tamil Nadu governor remains the only hurdle.

To ban the term that has now come to be identified with the political awareness of an oppressed community is in itself caste oppression.

On May 28, eight Dalits from the village of Kachanatham were hacked with knives and sickles by members of a caste Hindu family – despite the Dalits having asked for police protection just days before.

The CBI officer who took his confession, the judge who sentenced him to death and the family members of Rajiv Gandhi all believe the ends of justice are not served by keeping him in prison. Yet the Centre will not release him.

The history of state terrorism says the first stone is always thrown by representatives of the police.

It is the responsibility of non-Dalit journalists to be casteless and fight for equality in the country.