India, Aug. 16 -- Tell us about your new Tamil book, Tirunelveeli Ezucciyum Vaa.Vuu.Vi.yum 1908.This particular book is focused on one day in the life of VOC. At the height of the Swadeshi movement, for about two years from 1906, VOC ran a shipping company directly challenging the British India Steam Navigation Company. He was opening new fronts in the anticolonial struggle and mobilising people for the nationalist movement. He also led a major strike in the British-owned cotton mills. He was traveling all over south India and even further to propagate Swadeshi ideals.

He was arrested on March 12, 1908. The day after, in Tirunelveli and Thoothukudi, people took to the streets, burnt government buildings, challenged the police, burnt the ...