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A resistance movement
August 28, 2021, 7:56 AM IST
I think the Malabar Rebellion is one of the most complex historical events to have happened in the country. As Mahatma Gandhi wrote in ‘Young India’ three years after the rebellion in May 1924, it…
August 28, 2021, 7:56 AM IST
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Uphill task
August 14, 2021, 7:53 AM IST
Maraimma Joseph remembers the “Nalpatham number” rain, (number 40 rain), that used to fall on her face like soft kisses throughout the year. For many years, Karunapuram, her village, used to be cocooned in a…
August 14, 2021, 7:53 AM IST
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Which one is Cain, which one Abel?
August 14, 2021, 7:41 AM IST
Asacrificial goat can easily become a scapegoat. Right at the beginning of Prithiviraj-starrer Kuruthi, released by Amazon Prime on Wednesday, Ibrahim’s (sensitively played by Roshan Mathew) little daughter beseeches her dad to spare a goat…
August 14, 2021, 7:41 AM IST
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Survival first, justice if at all
August 7, 2021, 7:51 AM IST
Can the Supreme Court’s decision to throw out a marriage plea from a rape survivor and the convict, defrocked Catholic priest Robin Vadakkumchery bring about an end to the big ‘business’ of ‘settling’ rape cases?…
August 7, 2021, 7:51 AM IST
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Sara’s choice
August 7, 2021, 7:46 AM IST
If the biblical Sarah gave birth at the age of 90 and her son ‘gave rise to nations’, Jude Anthany Joseph’s Sara is an ambitious, aspiring film director who doesn’t have much maternal feelings. By…
August 7, 2021, 7:46 AM IST
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In Chembai’s footsteps
July 31, 2021, 7:16 AM IST
His fingers tap on the chair and his lips move in sync with the mridangam beats. As the performance of the young disciples seated before him reaches a crescendo, he interrupts. “Hey, that’s not correct,…
July 31, 2021, 7:16 AM IST
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Havana live
July 24, 2021, 3:18 PM IST
The survival of Cuba as an independent country and its Communist system for more than half a century is a miracle in world politics. Fidel Castro defied the mighty United States throughout his life and…
July 24, 2021, 3:18 PM IST
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Parallel economy
July 24, 2021, 7:22 AM IST
The recently-exposed fraud at the Karuvannur Cooperative Service Bank near Irinjalakuda is an eye-opener to larger threats facing the cooperative sector, a prominent pillar of the state’s economy and lifeline of major political parties. Until…
July 24, 2021, 7:22 AM IST
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On the run
July 24, 2021, 7:20 AM IST
Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest. — Haruki Murakami The city woke up to one of its foggiest dawns with the…
July 24, 2021, 7:20 AM IST
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An iguana in the drawing room
July 17, 2021, 8:30 AM IST
If you thought the coronavirus outbreak stoked fears of zoonosis prompting people to stay away from pets, you couldn’t be more wrong. It is estimated that there has been a near 40% rise in pet…
July 17, 2021, 8:30 AM IST
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Doctors are Covid’s collateral damage
July 17, 2021, 8:29 AM IST
Dr Paramez AR, 40, a pulmonologist, in a leading hospital in Kochi, can’t tell when was the last time he slept for 7 or more hours straight in the three months of the second Covid…
July 17, 2021, 8:29 AM IST
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As you like it
July 17, 2021, 8:27 AM IST
St Berchmans (SB) College in Changanassery has a special connection to Shakespeare. The college, one of the important learning centres in Kerala which began functioning on June 19, 1922, boasts one of the oldest Shakespeare…
July 17, 2021, 8:27 AM IST
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A mat awaits GI tag boost
July 10, 2021, 8:24 AM IST
It shines like a mirror and hence it is called ‘Kannadipaya’. The unique craft of weaving mats using the innermost layers of the stems of a certain species of bamboo collected from deep inside the…
July 10, 2021, 8:24 AM IST
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‘The Buddha didn’t become a Buddha by following a Buddha’
July 10, 2021, 8:22 AM IST
Few books have exerted an enormous influence on world leaders and poets around the world than ‘The Light of Asia’. The iconic poem that extols the Buddha’s life and message, published in 1879, drew the…
July 10, 2021, 8:22 AM IST
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The paranoid Malayali male
July 10, 2021, 8:20 AM IST
When Vismaya Nair’s death on June 21, 2021 sparked outrage over dowry and domestic violence and shook Kerala’s so-called liberated ethos, her father-in-law in a television interview blamed his daughter-in-law for spending a lot of…
July 10, 2021, 8:20 AM IST
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A woman’s odyssey
July 3, 2021, 9:09 AM IST
With her car wheels stuck deep in slush, right in the middle of nowhere, Dr Mitra Satheesh could barely shout in frustration or weep in despair. Her 11-yearold son, sitting beside her in the side-seat,…
July 3, 2021, 9:09 AM IST
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Will the tide turn?
July 3, 2021, 9:07 AM IST
The man at a stall in the wet market in Wuhan held the snake tight in his left hand and swung down his machete on its head. The head was cut but was not severed…
July 3, 2021, 9:07 AM IST
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Our own pattammal
June 26, 2021, 9:12 AM IST
Beyond several firsts that marked her musical genius and the boundless affection the legendary gurus had showered on her, Carnatic vocalist Parassala B Ponnammal who passed away at the age of 97, early this week,…
June 26, 2021, 9:12 AM IST
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PB no. 2, Kottayam 1
June 26, 2021, 9:09 AM IST
The only service that is delayed in Bestotel is billing, so goes a popular saying among those who love the hotel-cumbakery. Neither the customers want to leave the hotel after food nor does the management…
June 26, 2021, 9:09 AM IST
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Pet peeves
June 19, 2021, 9:27 AM IST
Oscar, a labrador, is just eight months old. A pet lover, Roshan Joseph adopted him when he was a small puppy, just over a month old. It was his happy, furry friend that offered him…
June 19, 2021, 9:27 AM IST
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