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I of the beholder
July 27, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
My skin crumpled like a sheet of bad poetry on its way to the bin. My face, a map of roads not taken. And all of this happened over a bowl of Manchow soup. While…
July 27, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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Hubris of history?
July 27, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
The name Backwaters Collective has a certain resonance to it. It nods to historical referents like the Kayal Samaram but more than that it evokes the margins, the hinterland, the back of beyond and the…
July 27, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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‘ In a sense we are all migrants’
July 27, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
Tony Joseph’s book ‘Early Indians’ attempts to understand one of the cultural riddles of India that has been the subject of several scholarly works in the past: the vexed question of ‘who we are’ or…
July 27, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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Not all Maoists are terrorists
July 20, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
Since May 2015, the radical scholar-activist Muralidharan Kannampilly aka Konnath Muralidharan has been confined within Yerawada high security prison in Pune. Kannampilly, 66, had undergone a cardiac surgery not long before he was taken into…
July 20, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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Pinarayi’s faustian pact
July 20, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
A sense of pride and success was in the air when chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan made the big announcement that the World Bank has chosen Kerala as a development partner after the Rebuild Kerala conclave…
July 20, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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Another University College
July 20, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
There could be several protagonists in this story that keeps repeating itself. Ever since the University College montages have taken the media by storm, Salwa Abdulkhader goes about her life with an unsettling sense of…
July 20, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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Will PJ Become PV’s Nemesis?
June 29, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
There is trouble brewing in Kannur. Not between CPM and RSS, as one would expect, but within CPM. Trouble between those who benefited from the Stalinist ‘cult of personality’ but are now bent on denying…
June 29, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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A welsh engine to put Munnar back on track
June 29, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
Tucked away in the rolling hills and valleys of the High Ranges is a quaint two-storey building in Munnar town that retains the green colour on its roof that the Scottish planters had given it…
June 29, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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Activism AS ART
June 29, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
There is a moment in Anand Patwardhan’s lengthy documentary ‘Vivek’ (Reason) where Dr Shaila Dabholkar, wife of slain rationalist thinker Narendra Dabholkar, recalls their first meeting. She says that one of the first things Dabholkar…
June 29, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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In the name of the father
June 22, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
The recent allegations against Binoy Kodiyeri, son of CPM state secretary comrade Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, is literally adding insult to injury for the party. While there is some merit in the argument of party leaders that…
June 22, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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Eye of the storm
June 22, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
For Porathur Vareed Joseph, every day begins and ends with watching the skies, ‘feeling’ the air and monitoring weather satellite images. For the man who broke new scientific ground regarding the Indian summer monsoon, it’s…
June 22, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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For Christ’s Sake!
June 22, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
The idea behind a good cartoon is to generate humour that even its ‘victim’ can possibly appreciate. In a country like India which is hardly homogenous, one has to refrain from hurting religious sensibilities, because…
June 22, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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Munro’s MUNNAR
June 15, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
A sturdy, broad-shouldered man, dressed in jacket and shorts, leather-booted right foot firmly on the footrest of a motorcycle on a ghat road, surveying pristine Munnar, a cigar wedged between his lips. The year, the…
June 15, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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WAR Games
June 15, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
It’s the organizer’s dream, the broadcaster’s manna from heaven, the advertiser’s most cherished face-off in international cricket, maybe the whole of global sport. It’s the most compelling local derby, a pow-wow of passion and sentiment…
June 15, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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‘I’ve to wear a suit, I wasn’t expecting that’
June 15, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
A framed photo of Indrans dressed up as Charlie Chaplin in loose-fitting coat, hat and walking stick hangs on the secondfloor wall of his beautifully-designed house. He says Chaplin is his idol, a natural choice…
June 15, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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A Devout Muslim, a Modi bhakt
June 8, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
When he gifted a shocking defeat to the mighty Mullappally Ramachandran, Kannur’s Congress MP for 15 years since 1984, the then SFI leader AP Abdullakutty became the ‘Athbuthakutty’ (miracle boy) of the CPM. That was…
June 8, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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White Knights in aNipah nightmare
June 8, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
MAY 30, 2019: It’s 6am. A 23-year-old student with high fever and severe tremors was brought to the emergency section of Aster Medcity in Kochi. He was drowsy and could barely stand; his speech was incoherent…
June 8, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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Dumping derrida
June 1, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
The failure of the Left intelligentsia in Kerala in theoretically resisting the onslaught from far-Right forces during the Sabarimala agitation has been an eyeopener in many ways. “The Sabarimala incident projects not just the inorganic…
June 1, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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The country of my heart
June 1, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
‘Dad, where is this India’, asks a visuallyimpaired boy in The Great Indian Road Movie. Given the boy’s condition, the question isn’t as coy as it might seem, but you probably can’t say that about…
June 1, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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The Unpredictable Jester
June 1, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
Most of us associate chakyarkoothu with mythology and view it principally as a temple art form. However, these days the vidhushakan or storyteller often draws parallels with contemporary realities. Improvisation is inevitable though the core…
June 1, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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