Two juveniles booked for murder of 4-year-old boy in Sivakasi
The Hindu
The two boys pushed the child into an unused well, following a quarrel between their grandmother and the 4-year-old’s mother, police said
In a shocking incident, a four-year-old boy, P. Deenadayalan, was allegedly pushed into an unused well by two minor boys following a quarrel between neighbours, in Sivakasi on Monday. Fire and Rescue Services personnel retrieved the body of the boy on Tuesday morning, after struggling to find it since Monday evening,as the well had water for a depth of 30 feet.Hampi, the UNESCO-recognised historical site, was the capital of the Vijayanagara empire from 1336 to 1565. Foreign travellers from Persia, Europe and other parts of the world have chronicled the wealth of the place and the unique cultural mores of this kingdom built on the banks of the Tungabhadra river. There are fine descriptions to be found of its temples, farms, markets and trading links, remnants of which one can see in the ruins now. The Literature, architecture of this era continue inspire awe.
Unfurling the zine handed to us at the start of the walk, we use brightly-coloured markers to draw squiggly cables across the page, starting from a sepia-toned vintage photograph of the telegraph office. Iz, who goes by the pronouns they/them, explains, “This building is still standing, though it shut down in 2013,” they say, pointing out that telegraphy, which started in Bengaluru in 1854, was an instrument of colonial power and control. “The British colonised lands via telegraph cables, something known as the All Red Line.”