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Malayalam VOICES
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No room for broom
February 15, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
The landslide victory of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Delhi assembly elections has excited several people in Kerala who are desperately looking for a stimulus to alternative politics in their home state. But, ironically, the…
February 15, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
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‘Oral histories are unreliable’
February 15, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
Rajya Sabha MP and Congress leader Jairam Ramesh who was in Kochi for a discussion on his book A Chequered Brilliance: The Many Lives Of VK Krishna Menon, spoke to TOI on Patel-Nehru ties and,…
February 15, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
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Where freud meets FASSBINDER
February 15, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
If you thought good cinema is all about lyrical storytelling, glib images, suspense and suspension of disbelief, chances are you have not read Prof Laura Mulvey’s iconic essay Visual Pleasure And Narrative Cinema. Written 45…
February 15, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
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Fun learning
February 1, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
“It’s just destiny. Of course, I followed my heart but what attracted my heart to this path, I don’t know. It could be due to some divine intervention, ‘’ says Sathyanarayanan Mundayoor, who won the…
February 1, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
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Skin allergy
February 1, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
To Carnatic vocalist and activist T M Krishna, music, culture and classicism are hardly the pure and rarefied realms they pretend to be. In his books and speeches, he exposes how discriminatory art can be,…
February 1, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
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Saffron and subaltern
February 1, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
All his life, M K Kunjol, like most members of his community, lived a life in the margins. His house with laterite brick walls and tin roof by the side of Mulappanchira at Kuruppampady in…
February 1, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
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CPM’S patriot act
January 25, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
Muhammad Shuhaib hesitated for a moment when the police asked him to sign a few documents. They had come to raid his house after arresting his son Allan. His wife Sabitha Shekhar suddenly stepped forward…
January 25, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
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Where verse holds the stage
January 25, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
A giant replica of the Constitution with its preamble page open under the shade of a tree welcomes delegates to the Poetry Carnival at the Sree Neelakanta Government Sanskrit College in Pattambi. The sloped pathway…
January 25, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
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World on the stage
January 18, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
The 12th edition of the International Theatre Festival of Kerala (ITFoK) begins in Thrissur on January 20 amidst a mixed feeling of enthusiasm over its resilience despite a plethora of challenges and scepticism over its…
January 18, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
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Rama’s deification, Sita’s defiance
January 18, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
There are many ways to celebrate the 100th anniversary of a revolutionary and iconoclastic work of art that questions the very value system that existed then. The most political way to do it would…
January 18, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
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Backwater ballads
January 11, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
Valanthakad provides us a living proof of what went wrong in Maradu over the years. Situated on the southern end of the municipality and surrounded by the Vembanad backwaters on all sides, the island’s only…
January 11, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
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Splendid isolation
January 4, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
You thought the tribespeople in Attapadi were the most neglected lot? Think again. In Ernakulam, two hours away from the state’s fastest-growing metropolis, there exists a region dotted with tribal hamlets, where there are no…
January 4, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
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We for them
January 4, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
One of the first public displays of anger against attack on women was in Delhi when large groups of young men and women thronged the streets seeking justice for Nirbhaya in 2012. With a…
January 4, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
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Bandwagon
January 4, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
Social upheavals have always led to the birth of songs of discontent and music bands have been using them to protest against those in power. Now, when protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and…
January 4, 2020, 7:00 AM IST
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A revival, warp and weft
December 21, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
Around 1,800 gallons of water is needed to produce a pair of jeans and about 85% of water used in textile processing goes into dyeing fabrics, which in turn, pollute water bodies. With awareness on…
December 21, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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Grave tragedy, grave beauty
December 21, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
After the Air India Flight 182 bombing, commonly known as the ‘Kanishka Tragedy’ claimed the lives of her husband and two children in 1985, it was dance that helped Canadian choreographer and Bharatanatyam dancer Lata…
December 21, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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Convent life is mostly about servility not service, claims Sister Lucy
December 21, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
What drives a nun to embrace a monastic life would be an overwhelming devotion to Christ but once inside the cloister, she gets trapped in a life of servitude, Sr Lucy Kalapura makes some such…
December 21, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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Building bridge
December 14, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
If Kerala today has become a popular destination in Sweden, the main reason would be due to the untiring efforts of a Swedish couple based in Fort Kochi for a decade. They have brought around…
December 14, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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Between history & hagiography
December 14, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
Rupika Chawla detests quick fixes in life. As someone who walks the thin line of art, science and history, it’s something she cannot affordto. For her, any instantaneous act—like the one perfected by one-trick pony…
December 14, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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Cinema, uncut
December 7, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
Eight years ago, when directors Priyadarshan and Kamal sat facing a teeming crowd for an open forum at the International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK), they heard shrill voices of protest in support of Sherry,…
December 7, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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