“While women are still struggling to protest on a day to day basis, the enabling of sexual predators like Vairamuthu, who got recognised with awards by ruling Govt is disappointing, ” social media user wrote.

Lyricist and poet Vairamuthu took to Twitter to announce that he will be returning the OVN literary award. His decision came in after the jury decalared re-examination.

Adoor Gopalakrishnan told the Cue website that the award will not be recalled and that the award is not an award given after examining a person’s character but is given for ‘excellence in writing’.

Parvathy took to social media to condemn the decision of conferring the award, constituted in the memory of legendary poet ONV Kurup, to Tamil lyricist Vairamuthu.

Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi has alerted the National Commission for Women (NCW) to take up the alleged case of sexual harassment of Telugu singer Chinmayi Sripada by industry stalwart Vairamuthu. After Sripada blew the lid off the sordid case, the dubbing industry union did not allow her to work. On Wednesday, Sripada approached Gandhi via Twitter. Gandhi […]

The #MeToo movement has taken the country by storm with women in Bollywood and Media paving the way, the South Indian film industry, a traditionally tight-lipped place, is also opening up. Several gutsy women from the Tamil and Malayalam film industries have broken their silences and spoken up against episodes of sexual misconducts they have […]