It has been six long years since journalist Sandhya Ravishankar has been fighting harassment for writing on the illegal beach sand mining in Tamil Nadu. In a landmark judgement, the Madras High Court has quashed all defamation proceedings initiated against her and her husband Prem for articles published by The Economic Times. She talks of her difficult journey as a freelancer, how she received rape threats and lost friends in this fight.

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