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Covid’s hidden toll
June 19, 2021, 9:26 AM IST
Like many people, 46-year-old Sandhya has been feeling guilty lately. She and her husband (49), decided to prioritize safety over socialization during first wave of the pandemic. But when the Covid-19 situation “appeared” to have…
June 19, 2021, 9:26 AM IST
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Tree of life
June 12, 2021, 10:21 AM IST
In the lockdown of 2020, the Thrissur Vadakkunnathan temple, along with all other places of worship, was shut down completely, probably for the first time in its centuries’ old history. The ancient temple and the…
June 12, 2021, 10:21 AM IST
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An abomination called Attappadi
June 12, 2021, 10:19 AM IST
Rajathi, a tribeswoman from Melekandiyoor, was admitted to Tribal Speciality Hospital at Kottathara in Attappadi on June 4 but the doctors there referred her to Thrissur medical college. The next day, her baby was delivered…
June 12, 2021, 10:19 AM IST
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Escape to Kerala
May 29, 2021, 10:20 AM IST
Thrissur native P U Janardhanan left for Delhi in 1980 and spent four eventful decades in the city, witnessing its transformation into a metropolis. Having taken root in the city it was the pandemic that…
May 29, 2021, 10:20 AM IST
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Paradise lost?
May 29, 2021, 10:17 AM IST
It was in November 2018 that I visited Lakshadweep. A friend and I went boating one day and a youth who used to work as a contract photographer with the administration came along with us….
May 29, 2021, 10:17 AM IST
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The artist Vs the acolyte
May 15, 2021, 1:12 PM IST
Writer, playwright and actor Madampu Sankaran Namboothiri, popularly known as Madampu Kunjukuttan, who passed away at the age of 81 on Tuesday was something of a nomad. Often donning the mantle of a mendicant, he…
May 15, 2021, 1:12 PM IST
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Testing times
May 8, 2021, 3:44 PM IST
Since CBSE’s announced its decision to cancel Class X board exams and evaluate students based on internal assessments and their performance in various tests held throughout the year, scores of parents and students have been…
May 8, 2021, 3:44 PM IST
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Captain without a conscience?
May 8, 2021, 3:28 PM IST
K K Rema on fighting for her martyred husband’s political convictions and why Pinarayi’s new-found popularity is just a PR exercise KK Rema lost her husband, comrade TP, nine years ago, on the night of…
May 8, 2021, 3:28 PM IST
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Street smart
May 8, 2021, 3:11 PM IST
Riding on the pandemic and a spate of earlier natural disasters, Pinarayi Vijayan has once again emerged as Kerala’s choicest leader. Naturally, theories are galore over what led the LDF government retain power. It ranges…
May 8, 2021, 3:11 PM IST
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Backwater ballad
April 17, 2021, 9:17 AM IST
With his blood-smeared hands, he sticks a flower on the yam leaf in which the meat is wrapped. He hopes the flower would ward off the smell of the meat which the woman, his lover,…
April 17, 2021, 9:17 AM IST
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A free-wheeling script
April 17, 2021, 9:16 AM IST
“Be careful. Don’t go out,” his father’s words still ring in Siju Vijayan’s ears. It was 1997 and Siju had just joined Maharaja’s College for a B.Sc. degree in Botany. Siju’s father had a reason…
April 17, 2021, 9:16 AM IST
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Left, right, Left…
April 10, 2021, 8:04 AM IST
Kerala has 1.4 crore female voters, around one million more than its male voters. Most of these women are relatively well-educated but they are also, given the state’s endemic unemployment, frustrated homemakers. It’s this segment,…
April 10, 2021, 8:04 AM IST
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A poet, first and foremost
April 10, 2021, 8:02 AM IST
When poet-lyricist Prabha Varma won the 2020 national award for the best lyrics for the song ‘Arodum parayuka vayya/Aa ravin ninavukalellam…’ from the film “Kolaambi”, he ended a quarter-century drought in the Malayalam film industry….
April 10, 2021, 8:02 AM IST
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More soundbyte than substance
April 3, 2021, 3:39 PM IST
As electioneering enters the last lap it is becoming clear that, like the past couple of editions, this campaign will also end up skirting meaningful debates on fundamental issues facing Kerala, though the state is…
April 3, 2021, 3:39 PM IST
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Everyone loves a good despot
April 3, 2021, 3:33 PM IST
History has shown that every society wishes to be ruled by an iron-willed leader during an emergency. Kerala cannot claim to be an exception. The pre-poll surveys and the general political situation in the state…
April 3, 2021, 3:33 PM IST
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Words & their multiple meanings
March 27, 2021, 7:15 AM IST
Samuel Johnson, one of the greatest literary figures of the 18th century, sardonically stated that making dictionaries is dull work. A lexicographer, he quirkily wrote, was a harmless drudge, making readers draw up the mental…
March 27, 2021, 7:15 AM IST
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Blind date
March 27, 2021, 7:14 AM IST
The heat sentences you to the darkest room, the air soggy with a salty tang, alternating between the scent of sweat and ripened summer fruits. Such afternoons, I’d argue, is the best time to revisit…
March 27, 2021, 7:14 AM IST
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Fudging data on deaths
March 27, 2021, 7:13 AM IST
On April 11, 2020, Mahroof, a Mahe resident, which comes under the Union territory of Puducherry, died in the government medical college in Kannur district five days after he tested positive for coronavirus. For months…
March 27, 2021, 7:13 AM IST
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Why do our parties fear women leaders?
March 20, 2021, 8:16 AM IST
As Kerala goes to the polls in about 15 days, a discussion that’s raging in many platforms – except, of course, among the male political leadership — is the treatment of women politicians and the…
March 20, 2021, 8:16 AM IST
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The vacuum left behind by VS
March 20, 2021, 8:14 AM IST
There are no two opinions about what Marxist veteran V S Achuthanandan would be doing if he were in good health now. Meanwhile, his ‘arch-rival’ Pinarayi Vijayan is immersed in an electoral battle to extend…
March 20, 2021, 8:14 AM IST
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