Shanmugasundaram

My journey with the Justice Party, Dravidar Kazhagam , and other ‘mutations’ of the DK joint family began 80 years ago in 1942, says Vedagiri Shanmugasundaram, who at 97 is the oldest member of the DK. “I only remember my age when someone asks me,” he says. Shanmugasundaram’s first meeting with E V R Periyar, founder of the DK, was in 1948, during the anti-Hindi agitation at the Memorial Hall, Park Town. “I was a student representative of the Madras Law College,” says Shanmugasundaram, whose grandfather Vedachala Mudaliar was a member of the Justice Party.

When Radhika last spoke to her husband Shanmugasundaram over the phone on Sunday afternoon, he promised to come home with money to perform their child's tonsuring ceremony. He did not make it. A signboard of the state highways department crashed near the Alandur metro station on Sunday after an MTC bus collided with the pillar holding it, killing Shanmugasundaram and injuring another person.

A bank employee by profession, Shanmugasundaram's passion is to analyze the seismic activity of the earth. He believes that such analysis could be used to predict tremors and earthquakes in advance.

A 26-year-old man hacked to death his mother in the city on Sunday, allegedly over a property dispute.

Two youths, who were trying to escape from police after snatching a debit card of a 37-year-old man, died when the two-wheeler they were travelling on collided with a Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation (TNSTC) bus at Panaiyur near Chennai on Saturday night.

Two sisters who fell in love with two brothers at their work place died by suicide at Valanadu in Trichy on Tuesday after their parents opposed their love affair as the men were Muslims. The bodies of P Gayathri, 23, and P Vidhya, 21, natives of Ayanpudhupatti village in Marungapuri taluk, were found floating in a well.

In a major relief to cattle farmers in Erode, the district administration has issued orders permitting cattle markets to be opened across the district except for the one at Karungalpalayam.

A 29-year-old man was arrested by the police in Madurai for allegedly attempting to kill his wife by force-feeding poison to her.

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A man and his son-in-law from the dalit community were hacked to death by a gang belonging to the thevar community near Nazareth in Tuticorin district late on Friday night. Tuticorin SP Arun Balagopalan said three people have been arrested and they were on the lookout for at least nine others.

The arrested person has been identified as A Shanmugasundaram who was residing with his family at the department's staff quarters at Pollachi.