Father kills two daughters with poison at Mamallapuram guesthouse, attempts suicide

In the coastal town of Mamallapuram, a father's private anguish over a broken marriage became a catastrophe that claimed the lives of his two young daughters, aged seven and four. Pradeep, 35, had spent several days at a guesthouse with the children before administering poison to them and attempting to end his own life on the night of February 14. He remains hospitalized in critical condition while investigators piece together the circumstances that led a man, estranged from his wife and perhaps from hope itself, to make an irreversible choice. It is a tragedy that reminds us how the collapse