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What is this hijab business?
September 17, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
Certain truths, even when uttered by a believer, can be construed as incendiary. Is it because truth is always unpalatable or is moderation in tone the key to reform in the community? Two Muslim voices…
September 17, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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God doesn’t need us to save him
September 17, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
Life has never been the same for E A Jabbar, the rationalist from Malappuram, ever since he decided to take on religious orthodoxy and extremism in his own community. The retired school teacher who faced…
September 17, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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A book titled Shelvy
September 17, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
A recent reprint reveals how the late poet’s life and work were as open-ended as they were prophetic When he decided to end his life 13 years ago, which is still a mystery in Kerala’s…
September 17, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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Tribal anti-poaching watchers yet to get due
September 16, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
A quarter century ago, officials of the Hill Area Development Programme suggested that tribal youth in the Nilgiris could be roped in to protect the forest and wildlife. When the forest department finally recruited a…
September 16, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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The seamy side of women police force in Tamil Nadu
September 16, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
Reforms lose sheen as complaints surface; supervision by senior officers must Despite all their faults, democratic governments across the world undeniably make a sincere attempt to make governance more responsive to the community’s specific needs…
September 16, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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Track 2 in Cauvery: It falls on ryots to restore harmony
September 14, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
Legal & political measures have failed to address the dispute The Cauvery river water dispute has become a matter of intense political dialogue and an election issue in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka over the years….
September 14, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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The avant-garde a no-go for academia
September 14, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
“Breasts are bubbles, rising in wet marshlands,” these are the opening lines of a poem in Kutti Revathy’s controversial book ‘Mulaigal’ (breasts) published in 2002. When the book was released it coincided with the blossoming…
September 14, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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Mind Games – Why parties bank on granular polling data
September 12, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
Helps to target individual voters; instances of victimisation spurred union government ban AIADMK worker and Radhapuram union chairman V S R Jagadeesh, who was ousted from the party’s basic membership reportedly for his business relationship…
September 12, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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First call to ‘make in India’ came from Bharati in 1909
September 12, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
Make in India, the initiative launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014 has encouraged both national and international manufacturers to produce their wares in India, helping the Indian economy grow and ameliorate employment potential….
September 12, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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In S Joseph’s poetry, Mahabali’s return signifies Dalit subversion of upper caste Hindu hegemony
September 10, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
S Joseph’s ‘My Sister’s Bible’, his first anthology in English translation, was released recently. It is a collection of 51 poems rendered into English by seven leading translators from Malayalam. The translators include K Satchidanandan,…
September 10, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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Crown of thorns
September 10, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
Come Onam, we give a mythical king his rightful due, but no such reparation awaits the descendants of Kerala’s royal families Every sundown, the frail, elderly man is a fixture along the streets of Tripunithura….
September 10, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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In the Tamil heartland, a Malayali community celebrates Onam in its own unique way
September 10, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
As the village loudspeakers hum a Tamil tune, Chellammal sings an onapattu and the women folk sway and shuffle along just like thiruvathira dancers. They circle around a pookalam laid inside a traditional Tamil kolam….
September 10, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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Rajini hits that cashed in on Bachchan trends
September 9, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
Rajanikanth’s ‘Kabali’ garnered phenomenal success in the south and now rumours are rife about plans to make it even bigger by coming up with a Hindi remake. And who else can do justice to Rajinikanth’s…
September 9, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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Riding on Bharathi’s legacy – Pondy’s vibrant literary scene
September 9, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
Ahead of Bharathi Day on September 11, we find how Puducherry has inspired Tamil writers In 1908, when Subramania Bharathi was labelled a terrorist by the British government and faced imminent arrest, he escaped to…
September 9, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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Old temples a cache of ancient board games
September 8, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
In the game room, an elderly woman is teaching her twenty-something grandson the ropes of Pallankuzhi, an old board game. It’s her turn and as she fills the cups on her side of the board…
September 8, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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Gritty sirens who set screens ablaze with ‘dirty pictures’
September 8, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
Paying tribute to Jothilakshmi, we recall the lives & times of item dancers In a season when the Tamil cinema world has been seeing the demise of many a veteran, the passing of Jothilakshmi has…
September 8, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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NEET: May take 5 years for Tamil Nadu students to catch up
September 7, 2016, 3:53 PM IST
Tamil Nadu has been vehemently opposing NEET because if the test becomes the criterion for admission for all medical seats in the state, many students in the state may well have to give up on…
September 7, 2016, 3:53 PM IST
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To fix NEET, fee control, rank list a must
September 7, 2016, 3:47 PM IST
Assuming NEET applies to Tamil Nadu from 2017, we analyse how present flaws can be fixed and what the state’s options are The National Eligibility and Entrance Test (NEET) had a tenuous legal history before…
September 7, 2016, 3:47 PM IST
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Pillai another Ramanujan, but just not well known
September 5, 2016, 3:14 PM IST
Srinivasa Ramanujan’s story is now part of the folklore of mathematics. But there was another number theorist who could have followed in Ramanujan’s footsteps but remains relatively unsung. Born in 1901 to a poor couple…
September 5, 2016, 3:14 PM IST
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Why Tamil Nadu’s crime statistics may be deceptive
September 5, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
Fall in total number of crimes contradicts high crime rates in state The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) recently came out with its crime statistics entitled Crime in India, 2015 – an annual record that…
September 5, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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