Tuticorin: Adventures in Tamil Nadu's Crime Capital
Tuticorin: Adventures in Tamil Nadu's Crime Capital
V. Sudarshan
- Language: English
- Print Length: 304 Pages
- ISBN-10: 9393986030
- ISBN-13: 978-9393986030
This bustling port on the Gulf of Mannar is a haven for smugglers and bootleggers. The locals all carry aruvals – the lethal local machete. In between smuggling, bootlegging and loansharking, they entertain themselves with caste wars and blood feuds.
Tuticorin, in short, is like R.K. Narayan’s Malgudi, plus aruvals and hooch.
A young police officer with scarcely any knowledge of Tamil was in charge of the district in the 1980s. Anoop Jaiswal handled the underworld of Tuticorin in a rather unorthodox way, dealing compassionately with murderers, sex workers, bootleggers and other unusual characters.
A fascinating look at small-town policing in the days before cell phones and the internet.
This bustling port on the Gulf of Mannar is a haven for smugglers and bootleggers. The locals all carry aruvals – the lethal local machete. In between smuggling, bootlegging and loansharking, they entertain themselves with caste wars and blood feuds.
Tuticorin, in short, is like R.K. Narayan’s Malgudi, plus aruvals and hooch.
A young police officer with scarcely any knowledge of Tamil was in charge of the district in the 1980s. Anoop Jaiswal handled the underworld of Tuticorin in a rather unorthodox way, dealing compassionately with murderers, sex workers, bootleggers and other unusual characters.
A fascinating look at small-town policing in the days before cell phones and the internet.
Author Bios:
V. Sudarshan is a journalist and the author of the non-fiction narratives, Dead End: The Minister, the CBI and the Murder That Wasn’t; Adrift: A True Story of Survival at Sea and Anatomy of an Abduction: How the Indian Hostages in Iraq Were Freed. He also writes short stories. He lives in Mumbai.
V. Sudarshan is a journalist and the author of the non-fiction narratives, Dead End: The Minister, the CBI and the Murder That Wasn’t; Adrift: A True Story of Survival at Sea and Anatomy of an Abduction: How the Indian Hostages in Iraq Were Freed. He also writes short stories. He lives in Mumbai.
