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It seems that the IAEA had known about the meltdown in late March but government agencies had sat on this information until TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Co) had admitted meltdown at No 1 reactor on May 15, 2011. But its not surprising, adds the author of the piece, since governments have covered up nuclear meltdowns for the last fifty years. The coverup has been described by the well known American physicist Dr Michio Kaku, We were told not to worry, there had been only three partial meltdowns. Now we know it was a hundred percent meltdown in all three reactors. Radiation? Minimal, that’s what we were told. Now we know it was comparable to the radiation at Chernobyl.

English Translation of the book "Kalpakkam Nuclear Reactors and the Submarine Volcano" written in Tamil by Dr. V. Pugalenthi and Dr. R. Ramesh and published in March 2012. This translation is by Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research (IGCAR), Kalpakkam.

A three-member team, consisting of J.P. Rao, Kopa Kunjam and Prof Nandini Sundar of Delhi University, visited Kottaguda, Sarkeguda and Lingagiri villages of Bastar on July 3 and 4, 2012. The following are excerpts from their findings as well as a statement by villagers.

Mrinal [Gore], Ahilya Rangnekar and Pramila Dandavate were contemporaries. Decades before feminist politics became fodder for thought and trigger for action, Bombay’s tais (elder sisters) had left their imprint on its streets, tenements and slums without contextualising their engagements with its people as a gender conflict.

Captain Lakshmi Sahgal, freedom fighter and close aide of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, who died in Kanpur, aged 98, was born in Chennai and worked as a doctor in the city.