RIOT IN TAMIL NADU - medias boom this matter.

                    Madurai:  A bus parked on an empty road with its scorched insides.  Slippers lying near a rubble that's still smoking.  Streets full of shops that have not opened for business on a Monday.

This is Paramakudi today, a small town and a 7-hour drive from Chennai in Tamil Nadu.  Six people have died since last morning.

They were upset that a Dalit leader - John Pandian - had been arrested to prevent him from addressing a public function.  The police claim it was worried that his speech would provoke communal tension.