
Rema demands SC lawyer as new prosecutor
The Hindu
HC to consider petitions in TP murder case this week
With the Kerala High Court considering a batch of petitions in the T.P. Chandrasekharan murder case this week, a demand by Vadakara legislator K.K.R ema that the Home Department appoint a Supreme Court-based lawyer to take up the case of her slain husband appears to have put the State government in a real predicament.
Ms. Rema, leader of Revolutionary Marxist Party (RMP), who won with the support of the United Democratic Front (UDF) said that it was up to the government to decide after special public prosecutor C.K. Sreedharan expressed his inability to continue the case citing health reasons. “I have already sent a request to the Home Secretary,” she told The Hindu on Sunday.

Away from the memorial of saint-composer Thyagaraja in Thiruvaiyaru, where his 179th aradhana is marked by five days of uninterrupted concerts, unchavritti and rendering of the Pancharatna kritis, a parallel aradhana is under way in Thanjavur. In the narrow Varagappa Iyer Lane off the bustling South Main Street, devotees queue up at a house named after Thyagaraja. It is here that the idols of Rama, Sita, Lakshmana, Bharata, Shatrughna and Anjaneya, worshipped by Thyagaraja himself, are preserved, along with a portrait of the saint-composer said to have been drawn by his disciples.












