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The other side of social distancing
September 26, 2020, 9:45 AM IST
Six months after thousands shifted to work from home (WFH) due to Covid, the thrill has begun to wane for some companies and employees. Indeed, there are cost-cutting advantages for corporates, but remote working has…
September 26, 2020, 9:45 AM IST
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No kidding: The pandemic has rendered children invisible
September 26, 2020, 9:41 AM IST
A ll hid, all hid, an old infant play — ‘Love’s Labour Lost’ Children have been largely spared of the direct health effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, but as a group they are also one…
September 26, 2020, 9:41 AM IST
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Did Ramsi have to die?
September 19, 2020, 10:56 AM IST
The age-old trope of a man abandoning his lady love after getting her pregnant, leaving her with no choice but to kill herself, might seem the stuff of Victorian novels, at best a ’60s Malayalam…
September 19, 2020, 10:56 AM IST
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Dance of the demiurge
September 12, 2020, 7:48 AM IST
“Creation arises from the drum: protection proceeds from the hand of hope: from fire proceeds destruction: the foot held aloft gives release,” wrote Ananda Coomaraswamy in Dance of Shiva, the path-breaking study that has since…
September 12, 2020, 7:48 AM IST
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Teaching by example
September 5, 2020, 7:38 AM IST
In 2003, when 26-year-old Bindu Raman was appointed as a single teacher at a newly set up multigrade learning centre (MGLC) in Variyam, a tribal settlement deep inside the forests of Kothamangalam little did she…
September 5, 2020, 7:38 AM IST
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Healing lives, one painting at a time
September 5, 2020, 7:32 AM IST
For some teachers, the passion for their subjects ends within the four walls of classrooms and among the small community of students, they regularly interact with but not for R K Chandrababu. An artist and…
September 5, 2020, 7:32 AM IST
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Licence to shoot
August 29, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
From crawling on his belly for hours unmindful of bloodsucking leeches to getting close to a preying leopard and losing a dream shot between the paws of bear and a tiger, love for nature and…
August 29, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
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Check your ego at the door
August 29, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
The music and the jiving were salty, soulful and, as the gringos would say, full of sand. No wonder, that Kerala’s earliest acolytes of Michael Jackson were from among the seaside communities. In places like…
August 29, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
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When the Maddalam falls silent
August 29, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
W“hen Covid-19 lockdown and ban on temple festivals were leading to a protracted ordeal, noted maddalam artist Thichur Sudhi, who was an electrifying presence at hundreds of temple festivals, took a bold decision. He started…
August 29, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
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The original Kargil girl
August 22, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
It was a dry and humid day in June 1999 at Kargil, a month into the Indo-Pak war. IAF’s helicopter unit was proceeding with its search and rescue sorties to support the army. Flying officer…
August 22, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
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Room for a wandering river
August 15, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
With flood scare in areas along the banks of the Pamba River subsiding as water level has receded, debates about the efficacy of the state government’s project modelled on the Netherlands’ flood policy, Room for…
August 15, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
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True to life
August 8, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
For Ananthu Sunil, who creates hyperreal paintings, finding a theme was a slog. For he knew until his works distill a concrete emotion or tell a story, his hyperreal paintings hold little significance besides the…
August 8, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
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God and country
August 8, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
Binu Jones might have missed out on limelight and possible fandom because he chose not to pursue country music as a career but the singer in him doesn’t seem to regret the loss even a…
August 8, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
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Caste is not in our gene
August 1, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
Genetics studies have undermined historical narrations that thrive on deep-rooted notions and myths about social formations all over the world. They questioned the explanations and theses hitherto accepted uncritically. Along the line of such provocative…
August 1, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
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Spice route
August 1, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
Sometime in 2015, Olivier Roellinger, a thin man with a friendly face from France, turned up at the office of Vanamoolika at Pulpally in Wayanad, along with his daughter Mathilde and son Hugo. He was…
August 1, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
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The Jesuit comes home
July 25, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
When it was published in 2015, father A Adappur’s English biography of Jesuit priest Johann Ernst Hanxleden who opened the spiritual doors of Indian culture to Europeans was hailed as seminal. The life story of…
July 25, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
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The party is over
July 25, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
The CPI-M officially perceives parliamentary democracy as just a means to a revolutionary end, something it never practises but, crucially, pretends to. Of late the party, at least in Kerala, is not even bothering with…
July 25, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
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The Jesuit comes home
July 25, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
When it was published in 2015, father A Adappur’s English biography of Jesuit priest Johann Ernst Hanxleden who opened the spiritual doors of Indian culture to Europeans was hailed as seminal. The life story of…
July 25, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
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In the eye of the storm
July 18, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
Two years after they were celebrated as superheroes for saving flood victims, the coastal communities, mostly fishermen, are now being blamed for the sudden surge in Covid-19 cases in coastal areas. For a population that…
July 18, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
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Damp squib?
July 11, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
Monsoon madness has set in as Covid-19 looms over several districts of the state. There is an increase in cases of fever and cough everywhere but there is also panic among doctors and ordinary people…
July 11, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
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