Anuradha Nagaraj

Kumar has reconciled to the fact that he will always be considered an outsider in the city where he first arrived as a 15-year-old to work with a catering company, learnt the basics of cooking and slowly went on to become a full-time cook.

Chennai: One of the worst droughts in decades across south India is forcing tens of thousands of farmers and labourers to take out loans to survive, pushing them into debt bondage and increasing the risk that they may be exploited for work, activists said. Villages across southern states of Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh have be...

Kumar has reconciled to the fact that he will always be considered an outsider in the city where he first arrived as a 15-year-old to work with a catering company, learnt the basics of cooking and slowly went on to become a full-time cook.

Chennai: One of the worst droughts in decades across south India is forcing tens of thousands of farmers and labourers to take out loans to survive, pushing them into debt bondage and increasing the risk that they may be exploited for work, activists said. Villages across southern states of Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh have be...