Vairamuthu had delivered the speech last week during a discussion on Andal at the Srivilliputhur Andal Temple.
The publication is battling criticism from the Bharatiya Janata Party and Hindutva groups in Tamil Nadu after it published a speech last week by acclaimed Tamil poet Vairamuthu on the seventh century mystic poet, Andal. On Wednesday evening, a small group of policemen stood outside the Chennai head office of Dinamani, a widely circulated Tamil newspaper. In his speech, the poet cited a study by an American scholar that referred to Andal as a Devadasi.
