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Malayalam VOICES
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Occupational Hazard? A Doctor’s Tragic Tale
July 29, 2023, 9:58 AM IST
‘Ordinary risk’— that was the phrase used to reject the application submitted by Dr M R Umadevi for a special disability leave for 105 days. She had undergone a spine surgery for bone TB in…
July 29, 2023, 9:58 AM IST
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Quran & The Vedas
July 22, 2023, 9:35 AM IST
At a time when distrust among communities is deepening fast, any attempt to bridge the gap is to be welcomed. ‘TMnte Bharatheeyar’, a recently released docu-fiction film on the renowned scholar and thinker T Muhammed…
July 22, 2023, 9:35 AM IST
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The unbearable lightness of a free fall
July 22, 2023, 9:33 AM IST
It was around 7. 30am on July 1. A group of skydivers, along with their instructors, were flying onboard a Cheyenne 400 LS aircraft, 42,431 feet from sea level in the skies above Whiteville, West…
July 22, 2023, 9:33 AM IST
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WICKET MAIDEN
July 22, 2023, 9:32 AM IST
It’s been a decade since the thud of the ball hitting the middle of the bat and the shrieks of young girls started reverberating around the picturesque KCA Krishnagiri Stadium in Wayanad. As the girls…
July 22, 2023, 9:32 AM IST
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Has The Medium Become The Message?
July 15, 2023, 9:06 AM IST
It’s been more than five months since chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan met the press. None of his predecessors took such a long hiatus from the media glare. The deafening silence of the chief minister in…
July 15, 2023, 9:06 AM IST
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The Gift Of Strangeness
July 8, 2023, 8:07 AM IST
11 -year-old Ibrahim Surej loves to paint like many in his age. He loves bright colours, and hardly uses black. But in an otherwise multi-coloured artwork he recently made, his mother Razina P A spotted…
July 8, 2023, 8:07 AM IST
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Mangai, Millets & MGNREGA
July 8, 2023, 8:05 AM IST
The tribespeople, particularly the Irular community in Attapadi, would play Mangai, a wind instrument, accompanied by folk songs, in the millet fields for getting a better yield. They believe the flowers on Ragi (finger millet)…
July 8, 2023, 8:05 AM IST
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You’re Never Too Old To Summit Everest
July 1, 2023, 8:34 AM IST
Last month, when the world marked the 70th year of the conquest of Mount Everest, which symbolized the indomitable human spirit and pursuit of exploration and adventure, a woman from far down south in Wayanad…
July 1, 2023, 8:34 AM IST
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Proof Is In The Print
July 1, 2023, 8:33 AM IST
In 1892, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, two children were found murdered. Francisca Rojas, their mother, who was wounded in her neck, accused Velasquez—a man she refused to marry–of killing her children. Local police took the…
July 1, 2023, 8:33 AM IST
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‘We have played a major role in moulding a secular worldview’
June 24, 2023, 8:47 AM IST
VP Sanu, SFI national president, talks about his organization’s enduring contributions. What are SFI’s achievements as a progressive student organization in the past five decades? What is its panIndia relevance? Since its formation in 1970,…
June 24, 2023, 8:47 AM IST
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A day at the Red Bastion
June 24, 2023, 8:42 AM IST
‘Welcome to Red Fort’, says a board at the main gate of the Maharaja’s College. On entering the campus, a banner catches the eye, ‘SFI admission help desk’. A few steps ahead, another board can…
June 24, 2023, 8:42 AM IST
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Campus Radicals Turn Career Communists
June 24, 2023, 8:26 AM IST
It is 52 years now since the Students Federation of India (SFI) was founded. And if news of its leaders and cadre in Kerala in recent months is any pointer, it is that the SFI…
June 24, 2023, 8:26 AM IST
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‘It Can Happen To You Too’
June 17, 2023, 8:22 AM IST
Nearly five years ago, VK Thajudheen was accused of stealing and bundled into prison where he had to spend 54 days after police picked him up for snatching a necklace from a woman and fleeing…
June 17, 2023, 8:22 AM IST
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The D Word That Even Doctors Dread
June 17, 2023, 8:18 AM IST
Two weeks ago, a senior doctor couple, both professionally successful and highly respected, were found dead at home, supposedly by prescription drug overdose. They had left a suicide note in which they explained that they…
June 17, 2023, 8:18 AM IST
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Enemy Within
June 17, 2023, 8:14 AM IST
“You all have been picked to lead the block units of the Congress party since we feel that you are the best for the job in your areas. It is your responsibility to bring results….
June 17, 2023, 8:14 AM IST
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Pinarayi’s Manhattan Party
June 10, 2023, 7:51 AM IST
Historically, the Left government of Kerala has boasted of sensible spending and fiscal responsibility pinning on social equitability, but the conception and the related expenditure on the platform for integrating policy makers and expats introduced…
June 10, 2023, 7:51 AM IST
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The End Of History?
June 10, 2023, 7:49 AM IST
“Russia is purchasing a big waste basket from America” / Why like that, brother / I will tell you. It is for storing the great literary works of last fifty years / Such huge wastebaskets…
June 10, 2023, 7:49 AM IST
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‘LKS is important for not only Keralites in America but also for Kerala’
June 10, 2023, 7:33 AM IST
‘Extravaganza is a matter of perception’ Reacting to the controversies, the event’s ‘diamond’ sponsor, and the president of Federation of Kerala Associations in North America (Fokana) Babu Stephen said those who call the event an…
June 10, 2023, 7:33 AM IST
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My Brother RAJAN
June 3, 2023, 8:37 AM IST
Director John Abraham was only six when his mother Saramma died. Before her death, Saramma held the hands of Susan, the eldest of John’s three sisters, and told her to take care of her siblings…
June 3, 2023, 8:37 AM IST
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Beyond The Anthropocene
June 3, 2023, 8:35 AM IST
Most of the paintings, sculptures and cartoons on display at the Kerala Lalithakala Akademi in Kochi are experimental and demonstrate critical rigour, attention to research and socio-political sensitivities besides aesthetic and formal qualities. Portraying women…
June 3, 2023, 8:35 AM IST
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