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Malayalam VOICES
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Of nudes, pastoral life and PATRIARCHY
April 4, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
The history of paintings in the state is more or less the history of talented men – from Raja Ravi Varma to C N Karunakaran. Only a few know that a woman had proved her…
April 4, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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ASHITHA’S CRI DE COEUR
March 30, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
Ashitha emerged as the next generation successor of Kamala Das (Madhavikutty) in Malayalam fiction. Both of them bore a lot of resemblance. They lived in mid-Kerala, had similarities in caste, religion and culture. Both were…
March 30, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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Beware Of The CENSOR
March 30, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
The university is a space where anything we think of as knowledge can be questioned. Through this very act of questioning new knowledges are created, in order that the generations who follow can be intellectually…
March 30, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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The ‘Company’ He Kept
March 30, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
For the past two decades the stock of Raja Ravi Varma has been on the rise, with auction after auction fetching higher prices for his relatively minor works. On Tuesday, Mumbai-based auction house Saffronart put…
March 30, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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When first night turns nightmare
January 26, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
Malabar’s ‘wedding pranks’ are no longer the fun they used to be. The guests who gathered at a house at Anchukandy in Kannur district last December for a wedding function were aghast to see a…
January 26, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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Sin Qua Non
January 26, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
Kakanadan’s inimitable voice – blasphemous, profane, visceral – is a perfect foil to our own prudish and polarised times. A translation in memoriam, Blue Eclipse and Other Stories, is a son’s tribute to the literary…
January 26, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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The epic and the quotidian
January 26, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
A photographer uses the past to capture the present. In 1999, when photographer Abul Kalam Azad set out from Mattancherry in search of his family roots, he had never imagined that it would lead to…
January 26, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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Look, what’s cooking
January 19, 2019, 7:39 AM IST
Fusion food is the rage in Kerala, but let’s beware of turning fish into fowl. Kerala’s very own karimeen meets Chinese schezwan sauce, giving the local fish an international flavour. Served along with this is…
January 19, 2019, 7:39 AM IST
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A Muslim too can be kafir
January 19, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
Quran: Akamporul tries to get to the heart of the Holy Book. Can there be a humanist, gender sensitive and inclusive interpretation of Quran that is significantly different from the mainstream readings which are often…
January 19, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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An adventure in the Andes
January 19, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
A week on the road in Peru is as unmooring and spectacular as any of Llosa’s magicalrealism novels. It was a week I will never forget in my lifetime, a week where I started to…
January 19, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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CPM’s caste agenda
January 12, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
By supporting economic reservation, the Left party reveals its feudal and anti-working class bias. Several disturbing questions arise from the smooth passage of the quota bill for ‘the poor’ in the Lok Sabha and Rajya…
January 12, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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Why is the church cross with this nun?
January 12, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
Sr Lucy Kalappura drives a car, writes poetry and speaks up against patriarchal norms. As Sister Lucy Kalappura, a maths teacher drives her white Alto along the streets of Karackamala in Wayanad, schoolchildren fall over…
January 12, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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A mosque with an art gallery
January 12, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
The only one of its kind in India, this place of worship upholds our deep-rooted syncretic tradition. For the past 10 months, the faithful offering jumu’ah (Friday afternoon prayer) at Masjidul Islam in a lane…
January 12, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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The Supreme Court may change its stand
January 5, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
The LDF govt has a hidden agenda by rushing to implement the apex court’s September 28 verdict Govindh Bharathan What would have been a routine ruling of the Supreme Court regarding the issue of gender…
January 5, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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Those Purdah-Clad women in the wall
January 5, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
Gender equality cannot apply to just one section of women. Two women in their menstruating age climbing Sabarimala and offering prayers at Sannidhanam cannot be construed as a revolutionary act because renaissance shouldn’t be smuggled…
January 5, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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Mob, crowd, community
January 5, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
On the Sabarimala women entry issue, the government successfully dealt with the first two; but it is yet to properly reckon with the far more important third category. “Some customs are to be broken”….said the…
January 5, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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‘We’ve been betrayed badly in the name of Navodhanam’
January 5, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
Stage-managed entry of women in Sabarimala is not the Guru’s way. We feel betrayed by the Pinarayi Vijayan government for cheating us in the name of second renaissance. I am very disturbed that two young…
January 5, 2019, 7:00 AM IST
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Bahulfatah, Ajmeer, Barkathulla…
December 22, 2018, 10:00 PM IST
A series of photo portraits recalls the lost world of dhows and their intrepid sailors. Seafaring in dhows came to an end in the late ’70s but the life of its workers, many of whom…
December 22, 2018, 10:00 PM IST
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Thy kingdom come
December 22, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Rare historical documents reveal that Kerala may have had a Christian dynasty. This Christmas season, it will be 516 years since St Thomas Christians of Kodungallur handed over the sceptre of their last king to…
December 22, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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The odiyan was no superstition; it was a means for marginalised people to hit back at their oppressors
December 22, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Odi, an occult art practised by the oppressed, held sway in Malabar almost till the middle of the 20th century. Most culture critics concur that odi was, in fact, a part of the survival strategy…
December 22, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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