News stories by K.S. Hari Krishnan

KUDANKULAM, India, Feb 03 (IPS) - An indefinite struggle continues against the Kudankulam nuclear power plant in the southern Indian state Tamil Nadu despite a government crackdown on protests.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India, Dic 22 (IPS) - Twenty-year-old Reshma, hailing from the village of Aryanad in the Thiruvananthapuram district of the South Indian state of Kerala, was forced to drop out of school early as a result of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India, Nov 30 (IPS) - Mujeeb Rahuman (39), a mason in the Venjaramoodu village in Thiruvananthapuram, the southernmost district in India's coastal Kerala state, has been a chain smoker for the past twenty years.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India, Nov 19 (IPS) - Sreelakshmi, an office executive in a major diagnostic laboratory in Thiruvananthapuram, the capital city of the southern Indian state of Kerala, ends her 11-hour working day to return home at night to a mountain of domestic chores.

NEW/DELHI/THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, Nov 09 (IPS) - At midnight on Oct. 12, 91-year-old George Puthenveettil, a widower living in Kalanjur village in the Pathanamthita district of the southern Indian state of Kerala, was brutally tortured and ousted from his own house by his only son for "not earning any money".

NEW DELHI/THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, Oct 19 (IPS) - As gender-based violence across India becomes more frequent, and more savage, increasing numbers of women are speaking out against the cruelty.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India, Sep 28 (IPS) - After more than a century of fighting sea erosion by massively dumping granite boulders along the beaches of southern  Kerala state, environmentalists and administrators are beginning to see that this has been a costly and ineffective solution.