Lord of the quarries: The murky world of mining and the politics …
Palanichami's PRP Granites, the mining company he set up in Melur in 1992-93, is now the country's largest exporter of granite, worth around Rs 20,000 crore. A week after skeletal remains of six persons were dug up from a quarry owned by granite businessman P R Palanichami in Madurai, Arun Janardhanan tells the story of the …