
Wife of deceased conservancy worker seeks compensation from State govt.
The Hindu
The wife of a conservancy worker, who died due to COVID-19, moved the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Wednesday seeking compensation from the State government.In her petition, N. Ponnupillai
The wife of a conservancy worker, who died due to COVID-19, moved the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Wednesday seeking compensation from the State government. In her petition, N. Ponnupillai of Melur in Madurai district said her husband S. Nagu worked as a contract labourer in Melur municipality office for more than five years. In 2020, he was engaged as a frontline worker.
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.












