It’s been a week since Kavin Selva Ganesh – Chandrasekar and TamilSelvi – have laid their brutally crippled body to rest. Their grief exceeds the screen in every video clip that emerges online. Their 27 -year -old son, an IT employee in Chennai, dating from Aurumugamangalam, the village of Thoothook, was reportedly murdered by his girlfriend Surjith’s brother, because Kavin belonged to India Devendra Kula Valar or Pallar Caste classified as a planned kast (SC). Surjith was one of the most confident caste in the community classified as Muculad Caste Group, which also walks Pozarech.
The killing of “Honor” became a common hate crime in Tamil, and the assembly cases of SC youth were hunted and killed for loved outside her caste. Although the root is in caste hatred, it is also rooted in deep misogyn. An article in the economic and political weekly June 28 talks about how traditional marital customs, rooted in caste endogamy, contribute to violence against couples that resist these standards. This is especially for Dalit men who get married or associate with women from other communities, especially Savarna women.
The dominant caste groups believe that women who love and marry, or in the case of Kavina, intend to marry outside their caste, are pollutants of caste. Women’s autonomy has encountered repressive measures. In order not to forget the terrible fate of Vimaladevi, the 20 -year -old caste of the Hindu woman from the village of Pothipuram in the Madurai district, which was visited from the tree in 2014 because she escaped with her lover, Dalitian youth Dhilip Kumar. Her parents were reportedly involved in her murder. D. Suesh Kumar adds that there is a perception that caste killing occurs only in villages. Women and men are not in caste cities, as shown in this article in Hindu.
For years, activists have demanded a law that deals exclusively by the killing of honor. The activist against Kasta A. Kathir says that the group came up with a proposal entitled Freedom of Marriage and Association and a ban on crimes in the name Honor Act, 2022. Despite the bird of prey Munnetr Kazhagam, promising the creation of the act of the crime.
Based on contributions to social media and adjusting videos supporting Surjith from the members of his caste, it is clear that this deeply rooted gap between caste groups and their own misogynia in the country considered “progressive” will not disappear. In a country that is trying to save an institution of marriage at all levels, IU courts, it is important to protect those who want to marry outside the caste.
Tool set
The Tamil Government published 1 August State Policy for Transgender 2025. It is a five -year travel map that promises education and dignity with regard to self -identification without medical certification. Some of the most important parts of the document include a change in the Hindu succession Act, the Indian Sequence Act, inter alia, to ensure the right of transgender and intersex inheritance; and providing prophylaxis before exposure to prevent HIV transfer and introduction of a standardized clinical protocol to treat transgender people.
Wordsworth
TopSide Test: “Are there two trans people in a story that talks about something other than a medical transition?”
The upper side test, created by Torrey Peters, hopes to be a metric that will answer this exact question, especially in the literature. Peters, who is Trans -Sama, the author is Stag Dance, which was released in March 2025. While promoting her book in a podcast, the author said that culture had to evolve around the talks that capture the daily life of strange people instead of accepting sympathy from Cisgender readers.
Ouch!
“Just because one is a woman, the government should not give money to make movies. They should also be provided training. They should know all the problems associated with filming the film.”
Veteran Malayali filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan about incentives for women in the film.
The women we meet
Krupa GE | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
Krupa GE, a writer and translator, who brought her book Burns Boy in July, has been working at the intersection of literature since her first book River remembers, the literature on climate change, which focuses on the Chennai floods in 2015.
“I was just a” heir “, my daughter, when I wrote what we know about her (her first fictional novel). When I finished Burns Boy, I was my mother alone. And writing about my mother in the book and my daughter was entertaining, just like Katartic, who had just experienced Lucy Jones writes in her beautiful books.”
He says the world around her is difficult to testify. “Being a mother is also feeling helpless, watching these mothers of children in Gaza and men who risk their lives for flour and recipe,” he says. Krupa enjoyed the translation of women and currently translates a short fiction.
Published – August 10, 2025 09:29 IS
