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Malayalam VOICES
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Vanity of the vanguard
January 29, 2022, 1:19 PM IST
Immediately after taking oath as the chief minister of Kerala on April 5, 1957, EMS Namboodirippad released a statement of policy. It asked his cabinet to be on guard against creating a public impression that…
January 29, 2022, 1:19 PM IST
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The science of birdsong
January 22, 2022, 11:53 AM IST
Conventional post-disaster analyses often fail to capture the impact that natural disasters have even on human beings. No wonder, the focus seldom falls on wildlife as such studies are mainly done only on utilitarian grounds….
January 22, 2022, 11:53 AM IST
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Variamkunnath’s Hindu comrades
January 22, 2022, 11:41 AM IST
“M appila rebels declared selfrule in Malabar,” The New York Times reported on August 29, 1921, after Variamkunnath Kunhamed Haji declared an independent state in the presence of a huge crowd of volunteers and the…
January 22, 2022, 11:41 AM IST
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A raga for each taalam
January 22, 2022, 11:29 AM IST
In the grammar of pandi melam any aberration in the structure of the beats is unpardonable. Pandi melam is driven by the dominance of chenda, its drumbeats flying in full fury and glory. The emperor…
January 22, 2022, 11:29 AM IST
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Nun rape case verdict: ‘Judgment silenced many for ever’
January 15, 2022, 12:22 PM IST
The verdict in the nun rape case pronounced by the additional sessions court, Kottayam, on Friday, is surprising. It not only affects the victim who completely trusted the investigation machinery and the legal system, but…
January 15, 2022, 12:22 PM IST
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The proof is in the pedagogy
January 8, 2022, 10:59 AM IST
One college shows why OBE (‘teach without teaching’) is the new buzzword in higher education When Chackochan J Njavallil, an associate professor of the commerce department of Marian College (Autonomous), Kuttikkanam, addressed the newly-enrolled M…
January 8, 2022, 10:59 AM IST
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Why are the stars silent?
January 8, 2022, 10:23 AM IST
Are the Malayalam film industry and LDF government doing enough to protect women artistes and their rights? Come February 17, it will be five years since a wellknown actor was abducted, sexually assaulted in a…
January 8, 2022, 10:23 AM IST
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The 11th commandment
December 25, 2021, 9:53 AM IST
As Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’ (currently being summarised in Malayalam) says, listen to the ‘cry of the earth’ “An integrated approach is necessary in combating poverty, restoring dignity to the excluded, and at the…
December 25, 2021, 9:53 AM IST
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Koothu’s new avatar
December 18, 2021, 8:38 AM IST
An ancient performance art is being digitised for the benefit of posterity Even as Covid-19 has brought down curtains on live performances robbing stage artists of livelihood, it has sped up digital transformation in the…
December 18, 2021, 8:38 AM IST
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City and country
December 18, 2021, 8:23 AM IST
During the pandemic, an artist explores the conflict & corelation between rural and urban When the lockdown was imposed in March 2020, Raju Baraiya, a young artist born into a farmer family in a Gujarat…
December 18, 2021, 8:23 AM IST
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The saga of Shanavas
December 11, 2021, 10:19 AM IST
One man’s incredible triumph of mind and spirit Forty-six-year-old Shanavas T A has been lying incapacitated in his bed without even being able to lift a finger for the past 11 years at his house…
December 11, 2021, 10:19 AM IST
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Accidental assassin
December 11, 2021, 10:03 AM IST
Exploring the concept of binaries and their significance in shedding light on new or hidden meanings is not something new in Western literature. But to explore binaries with an ambivalence that is quintessential to Indian…
December 11, 2021, 10:03 AM IST
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River chronicles
December 4, 2021, 7:31 AM IST
Rivers have inspired literature down the ages serving as both motif and metaphor of the ebb and flow of human life itself—from the Great Floodinspired Epic of Gilgamesh, the oldest surviving written tale on the…
December 4, 2021, 7:31 AM IST
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They need help
December 4, 2021, 7:27 AM IST
Even as the barriers to socialization due to Covid restrictions are being pulled down and the society gets into the new normal with masks in place, social and mental health observers are struggling to figure…
December 4, 2021, 7:27 AM IST
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Ezhuthachan’s debt to Marakkar
December 4, 2021, 7:25 AM IST
March 16, 1600 was a tragic moment in the history of Kerala as the day marked the surrender of Muhammed Marakar, the Kunjali Marakkar IV, who was later sent to the gallows in Goa by…
December 4, 2021, 7:25 AM IST
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Joy of reading
November 27, 2021, 8:56 AM IST
For 40 years, Sathyanarayanan Mundayoor’s mission has been to inculcate love of books in children Not many know Sathyanarayanan Mundayoor in his home state. Yet for him, his passion for reading and learning was kindled…
November 27, 2021, 8:56 AM IST
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Gravity’s rainbow
November 27, 2021, 8:31 AM IST
Churuli’s dialogues are not for the faint-hearted but its ethereal exploration of time is, well, levitating A kind god promises life several times / Benevolent, until the final kink / In your tail is relished…
November 27, 2021, 8:31 AM IST
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The elephant in the garden
November 20, 2021, 9:53 AM IST
A non-verbal performance on the importance of sharing space If man-animal conflict is about spaces, two theatre artists are redrawing the concept of space and forms of art to come up with a digital theatre…
November 20, 2021, 9:53 AM IST
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Les Miserables
November 20, 2021, 9:09 AM IST
‘Republics that harbour slaves’, Hugo famously said — the plight of our ‘undocumented’ migrant labourers abroad is not so different Migrants rights researcher Rejimon Kuttappan’s new book “Undocumented” explores the plight of lakhs of migrant…
November 20, 2021, 9:09 AM IST
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Left, right & centre
November 20, 2021, 8:51 AM IST
For Kerala’s cartoonists, everything is fair game but they don’t take sides. Can their critics claim the same? Early this week, a group of 30-odd protesters marched to the house of Lalithakala Academy chairman Nemom…
November 20, 2021, 8:51 AM IST
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