Displaced Dalits in Tamil Nadu, India


In the Tiruvannamalai district of Tamil Nadu, India there are 350,000 Dalit people who are under threat of being displaced by a government approved iron ore company. The people of the area have spoken out against the presence of this facility but at present the government is not backing down. The iron ore facility will not only displace people but also their livestock, temples, homes, educational and health facilities as well as break apart communities that have been existing here for years.

Impunity in Sri Lanka

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Suresh Premachandran, Parliament member from Sri Lanka talks about impunity and violation of inalienable rights of Tamil people in Sri Lanka.
I met with Suresh at his home in Tamil Nadu, India.

Journalists are being killed, arrested and banned from entering and reporting from combat zone areas. Civilians are being held in refugee camps within their own country while the government bombards its own citizens.
Suresh is from the northern district of Jaffna in Sri Lanka, currently this area is the most adversely affected by the war.
Facing threats to his life for speaking out against government aggression he has moved his family several times in recent years from Sri Lanka, to India, Canada and finally back to India.

Suresh talks about the welfare camps, ceasefire agreement, the Sri Lankan government's want for continuing the war in the name of creating a single ethno country and the need for the global community to speak up.
Suresh can be reached at kandiah57@hotmail.com

Where do your spices come from?
A snapshot of the work involved to give our food flavor. Cochin, Kerala, India.

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Chai on the street.

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The chai stand was on my way to yoga class. We chatted it up in the mornings. They like Obama.

Walking down the street in Fort Cochin, Kerala.