The next morning, Dharman’s wife woke him up around 7 a.m., then left to take their kids to the bus stop for school. She came back and tried to console him. When she got back, she noticed ...

Dharman did not tell his wife he hadn’t been working until the day before she died. During his unemployment, Dharman piled up about $50,000 in credit card debt, according to a detective’s report.

When Cho Dharman’s ‘Koogai’(The Owl) appeared in Tamil in 2005, the novel threw up disturbing images of the ‘karisal’ (black cotton soil) region of so ...

“The karichan (drongo) were having a serious conversation about something,” says Tamil writer Cho Dharman. He noticed the birds on his usual stroll in Kovilpatti where he lives, and they ...