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Spot the difference
December 7, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
He never gets tired of workouts but Chitharesh Natesan seems to be a bit exhausted by countless narrations of his story. Understandable, considering how many times he has been through this rigmarole since he became…
December 7, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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Heart beats art
November 30, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
Young and old women stood at the Nada Pandal and Padipura of the temple, tapping and waving their hands as the Melam reached its crescendo at the Sree Poornathrayeesa Temple in Tripunithura. It was a…
November 30, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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Macho man
November 30, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
An unbridled fever pitch precedes the screening of Lijo Jose Pellissery’s films in festival circuits of late which draws parallel to the pace of his filmmaking. He made Ee.Ma.Yau in 20 days while Jallikattu took…
November 30, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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Everyday heroes
November 23, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
When Suraj Venjaramoodu chose just two scenes over a full-length role in Abrid Shine’s Action Hero Biju in 2015, many doubted his choice. On screen, he portrayed a mason with a scraggly beard who would…
November 23, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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Wild at heart
November 23, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
Diana Joseph uses the simplest of the brushes: the humble digits of her palm to create images of adorably cute wild animals: Nuzzling antelopes, snuggling Casanova wolves and lions in the series of art works…
November 23, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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Sufi not shahid
November 16, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
In Kondotty, myth and history coalesce to form a magical realistic narrative that has been transmitted through generations. Stories of ‘Karamat’ or divine powers of the Sufi saints co-exist with the wounds left by the…
November 16, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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Phantom army
November 9, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
When some priests put together a volunteer group comprising retired personnel from the military and para-military forces and named it Gabriel Army of Thalassery (GATE), they had angels in mind not crusaders. The idea was…
November 9, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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Dancer becomes the dance
November 9, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
Why walk when you can dance? Why learn when you can’t enjoy? For septuagenarian dancer Shymala Surendran, these are not just adages but principles she puts into practice while teaching classical dance. At a…
November 9, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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City (B) lights
November 2, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
It is easy to mourn a foreign city. Metaphors come quick to a tourist whose agenda is to romanticize the place while secretly renewing vows with his otherwise lacklustre life. It is easier still, if…
November 2, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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Divine Comedy
November 2, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
The mass is in full flow. With arms outstretched the pastor is extolling God’s glory as the worshippers sit buried their heads in their Bibles. Those of us who have managed to be late to…
November 2, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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My beef with insta-solidarity
October 26, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
Through my childhood, Sunday was like a favourite song. Routines, lines we knew by heart. All windows would be left wide open for the sun to puddle in. My mother would take her place by…
October 26, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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Tall Tales
October 19, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
Next month Pranav Prince is slated to go to NBA (National Basketball Association, the premier men’s basketball league in the world) Global Academy in Canberra in Australia for a training programme. Back home in Thiruvananthapuram,…
October 19, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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Orange Alert
October 19, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
Willem-Alexander, king of the Netherlands, and Queen Maxima spent some quality time in Kochi and Alappuzha on Thursday and Friday. The visit had great significance, symbolic and otherwise. India’s ambassador to Holland Venu Rajamony talks…
October 19, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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Maoist, matador or madding crowd?
October 19, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
The short story Maoist by S Hareesh, on which the film Jallikkattu is based, satirizes the chaos unleashed in a high-range village after two buffaloes brought for slaughter runs amok. It’s a fairly luminous allegory…
October 19, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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7 Khoon Maaf comes to life, sort of
October 14, 2019, 5:45 PM IST
Vishal Bhardwaj’s 2011 film 7 Khoon Maaf was based on a Ruskin Bond story. Priyanka Chopra played the protagonist Susanna Anna-Marie Johannes who bumps off many husbands one after the other. But as Ruskin said…
October 14, 2019, 5:45 PM IST
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Jolly as always
October 12, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
Jolly Joseph stood stone-faced in the dock. She wasn’t exactly defiant, but neither did she bother to reply when the magistrate asked her whether she had anything to say about impending police custody. On Thursday,…
October 12, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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What the wife wants
October 12, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
The short film The Good Wife, set in 1992 Kolkata, starts with the visuals of a woman walking on a street, shortly before a curfew is set to be imposed, to buy fish to cook…
October 12, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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The F Word, redefined
October 5, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
The television’s on mute. Phoebe Waller Bridge has just picked up the 4th Emmy for her brutally honest and uncomfortably witty TV Series, Fleabag. She expressed disbelief that a dirty, angry, messed up woman could…
October 5, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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A walden of his own
October 5, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
Fifty years ago, in 1969, A Ramachandran executed a mural called Gandhi and the 20th Century Cult of Violence. Painted in oil on wood the palette conveyed a sombre mood, typical of period Ramachandran with…
October 5, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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Lotus eaters
October 5, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
This time A Ramachandran has decided to name his exhibition, opening at Durbar Hall in Kochi on Saturday, The Mahatma and the Lotus Pond, combining two images repeatedly appearing in his creative oeuvre. One an…
October 5, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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