The man who serves the dead at Chennai Central

N. Selvaraj, known to all at Central railway station as “Central Body Murugan”, has been retrieving bodies from the railway tracks for 36 years. For more than three decades, this station has been his place of work, his refuge, and in many ways, his home

​N. Selvaraj, known to all at Central railway station as “Central Body Murugan”, has been retrieving bodies from the railway tracks for 36 years. For more than three decades, this station has been his place of work, his refuge, and in many ways, his home