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Malayalam VOICES
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Ram Rajya: A populist dystopia?
September 28, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
India’s independence movement had both radicals and liberals. The liberals, mostly pre-Gandhian leaders, had a clear idea on where to lead India. They stood for parliamentary democracy and secularism. Their aim was indigenisation of the…
September 28, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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New testament
September 21, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
In the Sr Abhaya trial, several nuns in the witness box defied sacred vows to change their original testimonies “For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no…
September 21, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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What Maradu owes to MC Mehta
September 21, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
It was a petition filed by Supreme Court lawyer Mahesh Chander Mehta and his organisation Indian Council For Enviro-Legal Action in the Supreme Court against the Government of India which resulted in the landmark 1996…
September 21, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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We need more ‘Yakshis’ at our airports
September 21, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
It all began with the search for the sculpture of a soldier that Yusuf Arakkal did for Kozhikode corporation a few decades ago. The sculpture, when it was finally traced three years after the artist’s…
September 21, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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‘The people should decide’
September 14, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
It was still pouring as we stepped out of the car at Puthumala a week ago. Underneath the sludge and debris, which flowed like a brown zigzag patch from the plantation estate, 70 homes were…
September 14, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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Big men, small world
September 14, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
When he was in Class IX in a private school in Kochi, Sudheer Nath attended a camp where there was a session by wellknown cartoonist Nathan (Somanathan K Nair). At the end of the workshop,…
September 14, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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Murali’s little red book
September 14, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
Temporarily out of jail on bail, Murali Kannampilly is now in Kerala. A sprightly 66, he is hyperactive and obviously has so many things to do in his home state and with so little time…
September 14, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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‘HOMOSEXUALITY is a psychological disorder ’
September 7, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
A year ago, while delivering the landmark verdict decriminalizing homosexuality and upholding fundamental rights of the LGBTQ community, then Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra quoted Goethe’s, “I am what I am, so take me…
September 7, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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CIS Vs TRANS
September 7, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
On September 5, Thursday, when I spoke to Dhanya in Kochi, she was still Bhavani. A day later, on Friday, on the first anniversary of the historic abrogation of Section 377 that decriminalised homosexuality, she…
September 7, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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377 & 370
September 7, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
Sometime after the Supreme court order decriminalizing Section 377, I had a casual talk with an older generation feminist on it. She suddenly became emotional and said that if this had happened a decade ago,…
September 7, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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Russia, more riddle than roulette
August 31, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
Last week, we were waiting in a queue outside the renowned Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in St Petersburg when our Russian guide Polina suddenly said, “Please be careful – don’t tap your neck…
August 31, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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India’s most wanted
August 31, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
On August 23, Rahim Kolliyil (39) was working at his high-end garage in Nedumbassery when one of his friends from Bahrain pinged him. “Rahim, since when did you become a terrorist, macha,” his friend asked…
August 31, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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3 days that rocked the world
August 24, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
It was not just the music, headlined as it was non-stop for 72 hours by singers and bands who were to themselves become the stuff of legend later — music by the likes of Jimi…
August 24, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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ALEXA ‘ettarakku enikku TV-il cricket kaananam’
August 24, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
These days, writing a message in Malayalam on your smart phone is just a matter of a few touches on the screen, such a simple thing for the end user. But making that possible is…
August 24, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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The Earth swallowed them
August 17, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
Kavalappara was picture-postcard beautiful till a landslide levelled it into a dark brown sea of mud and a smattering of burnt orange. TOI reports on horror and hope as the search continues for 21 people…
August 17, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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Magic lantern
August 17, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
A13-minute long tale set in the late ’70s inside a single room, mud-walled house of a prostitute has been causing ripples in the ever-buzzing Malayalam short film milieu. Ranthal, directed by debutant Sujith Govindan, has…
August 17, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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Rain that ruins
August 10, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
Post August floods and landslides last year that devastated Kerala, we were assured by the government of Kerala that the disaster occurred because of once-in-a-100-year rainfall phenomenon and this may never reoccur in our lifetime….
August 10, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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Vimala: Vintage & anti-virago
August 10, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
I was barely as old as Rasmi Bajpayee when I walked up to the translation section of the public library, reached out to the top shelf and found myself enveloped by MT Vasudevan Nair’s Mist….
August 10, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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What is MT’s legacy?
August 8, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
He started writing in the 1950s. His narration was linear but strong and persuasive. He became the most authoritative governing and controlling figure in Kerala’s universe of un-theorised writing and reading. An assertive anti-hero then,…
August 8, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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Our own Ramanujan
August 3, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
‘Sriramachandra Jaya!’ is how Ramanujan Ezhuthachan opens his famous and popular version of the epic. It is his refrain. Of course, it is a prayer and not a slogan. All the same, it is addressed…
August 3, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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