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Malayalam VOICES
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The shifting front line
April 30, 2022, 11:04 AM IST
CPM leaders making overtures to Indian Union Muslim League, and the ensuing brouhaha, is not new. It is a periodical affair. Yet, each time it gets repeated it never fails to raise the political temperature….
April 30, 2022, 11:04 AM IST
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Surya Namaskar
April 23, 2022, 1:16 PM IST
Chants on Aditya (sun god) resonate in the air as a group of devotees gather in an open plot in Cherthala to worship the sun. They have set the offerings comprising nine-round appams in a…
April 23, 2022, 1:16 PM IST
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Portrait of the artist at work
April 23, 2022, 1:04 PM IST
Ideas come to artists in numerous ways but most times they set out to create their artworks with sketches, drawings, or doodles. If you want to retrace an artist’s work of art, his sketchbooks–where it…
April 23, 2022, 1:04 PM IST
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The man who knows too much
April 23, 2022, 12:06 PM IST
Way back in 1995, E K Nayanar was walking into Apollo hospital in Chennai where the then Kannur district committee member E P Jayarajan was being treated for bullet injuries sustained as a result of…
April 23, 2022, 12:06 PM IST
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Kumaran on asan
April 9, 2022, 2:28 PM IST
An 84-year-old filmmaker and his wife have finally achieved their long-cherished dream of making a movie on the great social revolutionary and poet Kumaran Asan. Director K P Kumaran and wife M Santhamma Pillai managed…
April 9, 2022, 2:28 PM IST
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Pilgrimage to Parappram
April 9, 2022, 2:23 PM IST
Under a vast expanse of sky lies the sea at Payyambalam in Kannur. The straight 3-km-long beach — one of the cleanest in the state — is dotted with thousands of people soaking in the…
April 9, 2022, 2:23 PM IST
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Odyssey 2
March 26, 2022, 8:40 AM IST
Four years after near death, Commander Abhilash Tomy prepares to race around the world solo “M hadei crashes down with a shuddering splash, her prow vanishing underwater. She’s being swallowed by the sea. The rest…
March 26, 2022, 8:40 AM IST
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Mass monopoly
March 26, 2022, 8:28 AM IST
Does the CPM alone have the right to ‘public’ protest? When a party secretary dismisses a public agitation against the government run by his party as nonsense and politically motivated, it hardly comes as a…
March 26, 2022, 8:28 AM IST
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Republic of Kerala
March 19, 2022, 8:47 AM IST
Some details of the plot of Sir C P Ramaswamy Iyer, the Dewan of Travancore to seek independence for the princely state on the strength of its rich thorium deposits have emerged recently in fiction…
March 19, 2022, 8:47 AM IST
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Resistance as theatre
March 19, 2022, 8:27 AM IST
‘Performance’ can be a powerful tool even in a hostage drama, as the director of ‘Pada’ explains More than 25 years have passed since four tribal rights activists–Ajayan Mannur, Vilayodi Sivankutty, Kallara Babu and Kanhangad…
March 19, 2022, 8:27 AM IST
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Wars within
March 19, 2022, 8:14 AM IST
Some of the best films from this edition of IFFK are on actual conflict zones as well as on the equally vital struggle to make good cinema ‘Too much smoking, too many swear words, too…
March 19, 2022, 8:14 AM IST
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‘Volunteers are the skeleton & life of Spic Macay’
March 5, 2022, 12:04 PM IST
Spic Macay’s founder Kiran Seth explains why youths need to get exposed to their intangible cultural heritage For the past 45 years, Society for Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Amongst Youth (Spic Macay),…
March 5, 2022, 12:04 PM IST
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Call Of The Wild
March 5, 2022, 11:53 AM IST
A crowdfunded book sheds light on the late teacher and conservationist Kamarudeen Kunju A group of environmentalists, students and research scholars had planned a fete to honour botanist and environmental activist M Kamarudeen Kunju, who…
March 5, 2022, 11:53 AM IST
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Yellow Alert
March 5, 2022, 11:48 AM IST
Thanks to a boot-by-boot overhaul orchestrated by the brilliant duo of Karolis Skinkys and Ivan Vukomanovic, a newly minted Kerala Blasters is storming the ISL Lithuania, a small Baltic nation with a population of less…
March 5, 2022, 11:48 AM IST
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Putin, Rasputin & Pravda (truth)
February 26, 2022, 11:39 AM IST
How does one explain the medieval throwback, the horror unfolding in Ukraine? Is Putin’s paranoia the sole reason? Is there something ineluctably ‘Russian’ in such brazen aggression? Can a culture that gave the world Chekhov,…
February 26, 2022, 11:39 AM IST
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Serpent queens
February 19, 2022, 2:45 PM IST
No fuss, no heroics — women snake catchers show how it’s done As she approached the high grasses in the compound of a Kerala Water Authority’s office in Ernakulam searching for an elusive python, Vidya…
February 19, 2022, 2:45 PM IST
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Self-rule to serfs
February 19, 2022, 1:16 PM IST
Little or nothing has changed for landless tribals 19 years since the Muthanga agitation. Meanwhile, C K Janu and M Geethanandan have gone their separate ways On February 19, 2003, the sound of gunshots tore…
February 19, 2022, 1:16 PM IST
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History as hologram
February 12, 2022, 10:18 AM IST
The upcoming Nayanar museum is ‘experiential’ and state-of-the-art but will it turn communism into a commodity? Communist Party of India (Marxist) is all set to open a people’s museum celebrating the life of Erambala Krishnan…
February 12, 2022, 10:18 AM IST
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The rebel code
February 5, 2022, 8:38 AM IST
The pandemic has left no country, society, or culture untouched. In a strange fallout in the state, it has breathed a new life into a dying secret language that had existed in pockets of Malabar…
February 5, 2022, 8:38 AM IST
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A boy named Aasim
January 29, 2022, 1:42 PM IST
“We had told you about this months ago. You could have avoided this situation. Now, accept your fate. That’s all,” the doctor’s words pierced into Muhammed Shaheed’s ears. It was in the first week of…
January 29, 2022, 1:42 PM IST
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