Rajiv Gandhi assassination

AG Perarivalan: A Free Man

Madhavankutty Pillai

Three decades after his conviction for Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination, he was released thanks to the efforts of his mother

Some Convicts are More Equal than Others

Shahina KK

How a Rajiv Gandhi assassination convict doggedly used the Right to Information Act to reveal illegalities in Sanjay Dutt’s frequent leaves and remission from prison

The Day Before

Manoj Joshi

A pithy account of the Indian intervention in Sri Lanka that culminated in tragedy

Dividends of Death

PR Ramesh

Tamil sub-nationalism and political opportunism over Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination

‘Only a Mother Will Know This Pain’

Shahina KK

Arputham Ammal, the 65-year-old mother of one of the three on death row in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, opens her heart.

‘I’m Not Pleading for Mercy but for Justice’

Shahina KK

An exclusive interview in Vellore Central Jail with those sentenced to death in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case

The Dangling Conspiracy Question

Shahina KK

Twenty-one years after Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination, the mysterious Multi Disciplinary Monitoring Agency, set up to find out who was behind the conspiracy, has provided no answers