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Malayalam VOICES
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Poor man’s madonna
July 4, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
On Rehana Fathima’s Facebook page, Kumaranasan’s famous lines “mattuvin chattangale swayamallenkil / maattumathukali ningalethaan” (change the rules yourself, else they will prove to be your ruin), are displayed prominently as a kind of stand-in for…
July 4, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
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Class act
June 27, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
The Iqbal Higher Secondary School in Kanhangad evokes memories of varied hues in Linza R J. After all, it was the place where she carved out several different identities for herself cutting across social classes…
June 27, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
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Naked truth
June 27, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
Lockdown measures have left women trapped in prostitution with the difficult choice of self-distancing and remaining without income or putting themselves at risk by continuing with sex work. Some are now offering their services online…
June 27, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
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Set your life on fire, seek those who fan your flames
June 13, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
I wholeheartedly hail the upcoming marriage of chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s daughter Veena with DYFI national president Mohammed Riyaz. Of course, there is impropriety in discussing a marriage between two individuals because it is purely…
June 13, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
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No line of control
June 6, 2020, 7:47 AM IST
Whenever there has been human-animal conflict, be it stray dog vs people or elephant vs people, on paper the animal has always won. In truth it’s the human. The pregnant elephant which was found with…
June 6, 2020, 7:47 AM IST
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Road to zero
May 30, 2020, 7:20 AM IST
On March 6, Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, recorded its first coronavirus case and all hell broke loose. Till then, the country had gone without any new infections for 22 days on the trot as…
May 30, 2020, 7:20 AM IST
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Is the govt in denial?
May 30, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
On Friday evening, chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan once again reiterated that there is no community spread in Kerala and no reason to sweat over the recent rise in the number of positive cases. He argued…
May 30, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
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Obsessive, compulsive order
April 25, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
With due permission to document the routine of frontline staff battling the Covid-19 pandemic, I arrived at the Thiruvananthapuram General Hospital on Wednesday. It was probably just another day in the life of the medical…
April 25, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
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Dad coming back, a child’s nightmare
April 18, 2020, 7:12 AM IST
Our jails are packed with convicts and undertrial prisoners and hence, in view of the Covid-19 outbreak, a decision has been taken to release some of them on parole or on interim bail to avoid…
April 18, 2020, 7:12 AM IST
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Bottled-up feelings
March 28, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
Bottles, bottles and more bottles! Colourfully painted with organic forms. Bengaluru-based artist from Kannur, Dhanaraj Keezhara and his family, who are in self-imposed quarantine, now spend time painting glass bottles. They are planning to gift…
March 28, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
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Illness as imagination
March 28, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
Sickness reveals the limits of language. Even great writers are forced to look beyond the commonplace to express ‘the spiritual change’ that illness brings in the individual. Thus, illness becomes a metaphor for many things:…
March 28, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
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Behold the Bharani!
March 28, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
Amid the lockdown, Aswathy Kaavutheendal, the main event of the famous Kodungallur Bharani festival, was held on Friday as mere ritual. Probably for the first time history in the Kodungallur Devi temple, just one oracle—Palakkavelan…
March 28, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
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Mangrove metropolis
March 14, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
I am not a marathon runner, nor do I qualify as a half or quarter marathoner but a WhatsApp-inspired foray into unofficial ‘long distance’ running recently proved to be a revelation. I rediscovered my city,…
March 14, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
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Don’t need a room of one’s own
March 7, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
It’s that time of the year when various segments of the reading and writing world get their literary knickers into a twist. The prestigious Women’s Prize once known as the Orange Prize has announced its…
March 7, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
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Occupy the future
March 7, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
Feminism has been one of the abhorred words in the lexicon for large sections of Malayalis who love to hate it and hate to love it. It probably stems from the fact that instead of…
March 7, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
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Woman is the womb of stories
March 7, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
Novelist and Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award-winner K R Meera makes no bones about the fact that writing comes from repression and women experience it 10 times more than men. She considers women the true repository of stories…
March 7, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
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Agitprop
February 29, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
“Sufism is not a romantic escapism from the real world. A Sufi meditates in the night and mounts a horse in the day,” says Sameer Binsi, whose Sufi music concerts have become an integral part…
February 29, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
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Bigg on drama
February 22, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
On the eve of the Valentine’s Day, director Aleppy Ashraf sent a complaint to the state human rights commission. It was against ‘manufacturing’ hate against a 52-year old man, a participant in the reality show…
February 22, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
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The wheel of time: Urn, vulva, ladder
February 22, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
When Fred Fawcett came across the rock engravings at Edakkal in Wayanad towards the end of 19th century, he was sure that the pictures symbolised the dance of the devils of the pagans. It was…
February 22, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
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Arab spring
February 22, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
Anyone travelling through small and large towns of Kerala can’t help notice eateries with fiery shawarma spits in front that advertise Arabic fare: al-faham grilled on charcoal and served with fluffy kubboos and the Yemeni…
February 22, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
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