INDIA SUMMARIZED

Sasikala, who hoped to spend the next four years shaping the governance of Tamil Nadu as chief minister, will now be spending those four years shaping candles. The AIADMK general secretary will spend her time in incarceration at the Parappana Agrahara Central Prison engaged in her allotted task of making candles for a daily wage of Rs 50.  Having been used to luxuries in life, Sasikala, who has been convicted in the disproportionate assets case, will now live a spartan life in the prison located on the outskirts of Bengaluru city. She will be given a cot, a mattress and a table fan, and will have to share her jail cell with two other women. She will get three sarees to use during her prison life. Not the first time that Sasikala will be housed in this jail, she had spent 21 days in Parappana Agrahara prison in 2014, when she was convicted along with her predecessor in the party, the late J Jayalalithaa, by the trial court in the same case (a verdict that the high court overtu...