The Sunday Deep Dive

Our reporters from across Tamil Nadu delve deep into a particular issue of relevance to the State.

April 03, 2017 08:30 pm | Updated March 01, 2022 11:10 am IST

Protocols in place: Seating arrangements for students being marked to implement physical distancing norms at a school in Coimbatore. Schools in Tamil Nadu are preparing to reopen on November 16 after closing due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Protocols in place: Seating arrangements for students being marked to implement physical distancing norms at a school in Coimbatore. Schools in Tamil Nadu are preparing to reopen on November 16 after closing due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Sunday Deep Dive is a weekly page that does exactly what it says it does — delves deep into a particular issue of relevance to Tamil Nadu.

Every week is a different issue. Our reporters from across the state analyse each subject threadbare, in micro detail, while retaining the panoramic angle, as they speak to every conceivable source to bring you the latest, and the very last detail in every story.

Collection - 48 stories

At the heart: The Master Plan evolved from French architect Roger Anger’s concept for a galaxy-shaped township that was approved by The Mother for the experimental city that would position the Matrimandir as the soul force.

Auroville’s Crown of Thorns

As part of the survey of lands, buildings, house plots, trees, tanks and irrigation channels, surveyors measuring an agriculture land, belonging to Sri Ekambaranathar Temple, at Thirumalpattu in Kancheepuram district.

Bringing back to the pantheon what it owns

L Srikrishna,Deepa H. Ramakrishnan

For a smooth ride: The present Chennai-Bengaluru Highway. The 258.8-km expressway will allow motorists to drive safely without the intrusion of local traffic and will help reach Bengaluru in under 3 hours.

Highway to future | great expectations of new expressway to Bengaluru

T.K. Rohit,Deepa H. Ramakrishnan

CHENNAI : 13/11/2021 : FOR CITY : A view ofthe Mambalam Canal for Sunday Story. Photo : PICHUMANI K / THE HINDU

Rain, rain; no drain

K. Lakshmi,Aloysius Xavier Lopez

Elusive quarry: The tiger, though believed to be injured and incapable of hunting, has been using his intelligence and knowledge of the terrain to evade pursuers.

Sunday Story | When the hunter becomes the hunted

Rohan Premkumar

The Coal Question

Damaged beyond repair: The site of a blast at Sree Mariyammal Fireworks at Achchankulam near Sattur in Virudhunagar district, where 21 people lost their lives and several others were injured.

Sitting on a powder keg of violations

Representational image.

Striking a fine energy balance

Sanjay Vijayakumar,R Srikanth

Not there yet: The Greater Chennai Corporation has not yet begun implementing the penal provisions of the Solid Waste Management rules widely. Picture shows battery-operated vehicles of Urbaser Sumeet at a muster point in Chennai.

Raising a stink: Chennai’s conservancy woes

Pon Vasanth B.A,R Srikanth

A spark of hope: Some inmates of the Puzhal camp. The government’s decision to change the nomenclature — from refugee to rehabilitation camps is symbolic, but it carries a lot of meaning for the refugees.

Sri Lankan Tamil refugees | Rehabilitation welcome but citizenship elusive

T. Ramakrishnan

Grabbing the bull by its horns: Tamers trying to get hold of an animal during a jallikattu held at Palamedu in Madurai this year. The popular bull-taming sport is conducted during Pongal.

Of lives, limbs and the bull run

B.Tilak Chandar,P. A. Narayani

Pollachi sexual assault case | Of rape, lies and video leaks

Step by step: Workers at the Everwin School in Kolathur disinfecting a classroom in preparation for the reopening of its campus for Classes 10 and 12.

Back to school: doing things differently in a pandemic

Garnering support: Artists painting symbols of candidates on walls ahead of the rural local bodies polls in Vattakinaru, Tirunelveli.

Tamil Nadu rural local body polls | Re-empowering the grassroots

T. Ramakrishnan

Challenges galore: While many units have cut down on capacity-utilisation, others are continuing with normal business. But payment cycles are fluctuating and getting delayed.

Enterprise limited: An MSME memoir

Sangeetha Kandavel,M. Soundariya Preetha

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Financial fraud | Usury travels online, thrives during pandemic

Tamil Nadu Bureau

Illustration: The Hindu

And, they all fall down

Vivek Narayanan,Ramya Kannan

Illustration: Kannan Sundar

Mystery of Tamil Nadu's missing coal

Sanjay Vijayakumar,R Srikanth

High risk: As many as 199 cases of COVID-19 were reported at IIT-Madras till Friday, sparking concerns about similar clusters emerging at other institutes as they gradually open.

Coronavirus | Pandemic lessons from IIT-Madras

Serena Josephine M.

Obstacle course: The State government has argued that existing stretches like the Salem-Bengaluru National Highway aren’t enough to handle vehicular traffic.

Chennai-Salem expressway project | Highway over troubled lands

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Financial fraud | Dirty, rotten scoundrels of the modern world

Mitigating factors: Though the weather system crossed the coast as a very severe cyclonic storm and brought heavy to extremely heavy showers, the amount of rainfall was distributed over three days in various places.

Cyclone Nivar | How preparedness took the edge off the storm

Ecological hotspots under siege

Protocols in place: Seating arrangements for students being marked to implement physical distancing norms at a school in Coimbatore. Schools in Tamil Nadu are preparing to reopen on November 16 after closing due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Coronavirus | Tamil Nadu’s dilemma — To reopen schools or not

R. Sujatha,S. Poorvaja

Elephant corridors allow pachyderms to continue their nomadic mode of survival by facilitating travel between district forest habitats in spite of shrinking forest cover.

Protecting pachyderm pathways

Rohan Premkumar,Wilson Thomas

An incomplete stromwater drain at Periamet; and below, An MTC bus stuck in an inundated street follwing heavy downpour.R. Ragu

Managing the monsoon

K. Lakshmi,R Srikanth

Tackling drought without data

Sandhya Ravishankar

Passing the baton: Vishal, the Producers’ Council president, with his predecessor Kalaipuli S. Thanu (right). R. Ravindran

Kollywood’s new custodians face complex challenges

Udhav Naig,S. Poorvaja

Seeking safety: Instances of patients’ relatives resorting to violence against medical practitioners have been the driving force behind numerous protests by doctors, nurses and medical students alike in recent times. K.V. Srinivasan

When our saviours need to be saved

Despite the ban on manual scavenging, men continue to be engaged in works to manually clear drainages. Vellore Corporations workers at work.

Manual scavenging: an indelible blot on urban life

Come March, the line-up of lorries at filling points gets longer as the demand for water soars. Recently, a strike by tankers created panic among residents of South Chennai.

Water sources aplenty, but Chennai still thirsty

Primal fear: At the core of the protests against the hydrocarbon project in Neduvasal is the villagers’ fear that it would undo decades of progress in boosting agricultural production in what was once a dry district.

One hydrocarbon project, many fault lines

Wanted: Public spaces

A total of 208 tonnes of oil sludge was collected manually and 99,000 litres of oil and water were collected through super suckers in the clean-up operations that concluded on Thursday

A slick on the shore and the murky aftermath

Deepa H. Ramakrishnan,T.K. Rohit

Job scheme, a mixed bag for rural labourers

T. Ramakrishnan

With crops withering, whither delta farmer?

L Renganathan, S.Ganesan

Still going strong: Protesters continued to throng the Marina even after an ordinance paving the way for the conduct of jallikattu was promulgated on Saturday.

A movement to reclaim Tamil pride

The warp and weft of exploitation

Dennis S. Jesudasan,M. Soundariya Preetha

Hope sprouts in the harsh agrarian landscape

K. Lakshmi,Deepa H. Ramakrishnan

Sewage overflow, a common sight at Eazlil Nagar in Thoraipakkam, OMR.

Resettled: A story of struggle on the fringes

Fishermen try to untangle their nets at Pulicat in Tiruvallur district. B. Jothi Ramalingam

Two deadly Decembers: A tale of water and wind

Hitech-hitch: There are calls to tap into the potential that legal online streaming of movies offers with the advent of several websites.

Kollywood battles a faceless villain

Udhav Naig,S. Poorvaja

Police say the menace of piracy is not perpetuated through selling of video discs any more but through illegal streaming sites and downloads.

Savvy pirates always one step ahead of the law

Udhav Naig,S. Poorvaja

A brick klin unit in Tiruvallur.

Invisible chains of bondage behind the brick wall

Dennis S. Jesudasan

A brief slump: In case of restaurants, the recovery after the second wave has been faster than the first wave, according to sources in the industry.

COVID-19 | Tourism on the mend in Tamil Nadu

Deepa H. Ramakrishnan

For the urban local bodies elections, the ruling DMK may go with the same alliance that won the Assembly election in April last. The AIADMK is likely to retain the BJP as its partner. File image.

A vote for robust civic governance: T.N. all set for civic polls after 10 years

T. Ramakrishnan

In the spotlight: The COVID-19 pandemic which took children willy nilly into the online world has also had a profound impact on them in terms of exposure to online content.

All on board to keep children safe

Representational image.

A whole new year for NEET

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