Reviews
Shoes of the Dead, the bestseller which narrates life and death battle of a farmer against his inheritance of despair, will soon be a motion picture.
- DNA India: Meet Neelima Kota - the author who writes about farmers suicides in India
- DNA India: 'Shoes of the Dead' author Neelima Kota says Vetrimaaran is a powerful storyteller
- India Today (magazine): Neelima Kota is confident that Vetrimaaran will do justice to her book
- The Hindu: Director Vetrimaaran will soon helm a film on farmer suicides, based on Kota Neelima’s book, Shoes of the Dead
- Hindustan Times: After Visaaranai, Vetrimaaran to adapt another book into a film
- The Indian Express: Vetrimaaran to adapt ‘Shoes of The Dead’ into film
- Filmi Beat (movie news): After police brutality in 'Visaranai', Vetrimaaran to delve into farmers' suicides
- India Glitz (Tamil news): Vetrimaran to make a film based on a political novel
- The Hindu: Kota Neelima’s 'Shoes of The Dead' takes India to Bharat
- The Hindu: A stark tale of greed and helplessness based on news reports of farmer suicides
- Hindustan Times: The bestselling authors in India
- DNA India: Book review
- The New Indian Express: A stark portrait of Indian farmers
- Outlook (magazine): Book interview 10 questions
- DNA India: Exploring the real India
- Postnoon (newspaper): The killing fields of power
- The Hindu: India inside out - There are more than two Indias now, but this space is filled with tension
- India Today (magazine): Blood Harvest - A novel powered by the politics and tragedy of farmers' suicides
- Millennium Post: Chronicle of deaths foretold
- Business Standard: Book on political dynasties and rural-urban divide
- Stray Birds (blog): The power of stories
