TAMIL NADU-The Murder of Seeralan

September 24, 1977 IT was June 25, 1977: two years to the day Emergency was declared. A mammoth procession of obviously poor, ill-clad and dusty-looking men and women, waving red flags and shouting slogans against police brutality and landlord atrocities (which had started from the village of Pon- neri in North Arcot district) passed through Jalarpet town