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INDIA: Freelance journalist, mother evicted from house Police commissioner to investigate Tamil journalist's complaint against his landlord The Times of India Thursday, October 30, 2008 CHENNAI --- A 35-year-old freelance journalist and his writer mother on Wedenesday met the city police commissioner and lodged a complaint alleging that they were forced out of their rented house in Mudhaliander Thottam at Teynampet. S Srinivasan, who had worked for a few mainstream Tamil dailies, and his mother Valasala Sivsami (52), who has published many novels in leading Tamil magazines, said they had been living in a temple in Tiruverkadu. "I am a chronic asthma patient and I cannot work in airconditioned rooms. That is why I quit my job and now I am working as a freelance journalist. I have been staying in this house for the past few years for Rs 1,000 per month as rent. The landlord forcefully evicted us to get back his house," he said. The Commissioner received the complaint from Srinivasan and further investigation is on. Date Posted: 10/30/2008
