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Malayalam VOICES
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Ezhavas: To be or not to be
December 15, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Scholars ponder their community’s real identity. It was the Hindu religion and Hindu community structure that wounded our pride. We should emerge as a community having self-respect and it is not possible to achieve this…
December 15, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Can Hinduism be caste aside?
December 15, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
On the legendary Robin Jeffrey, marumakkathayam and the decline of Nayar dominance. Robin Jeffrey considers himself a global citizen and an honorary Malayali. The Canadian-born academic is a frequent visitor to Kerala and is credited…
December 15, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Urtext, Pretext, Context, Text
December 8, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
The ‘people’s biennale’ could do with less intimidating write-ups. For a visitor to the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, walking with faux reverence from room to room consuming one media-rich spectacle after another, there is no escape from…
December 8, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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All the world’s a stage
December 8, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Some of the best films at IFFK are ‘crossover’ products – themes outside the auteur’s or actor’s normative culture. When Bulgarian film director Milko Lazarov decided to make his new feature film ‘Aga’ based on…
December 8, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Don quixote: Faking a fake
December 8, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
What Borges imagined in Pierre Menard has come to pass – a seemingly demotic, but actually dangerous, blurring of boundaries like in the recent Deepa Nishanth plagiarism controversy. Malayalam has at least a century-old history…
December 8, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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From Udupi To Kochi, A culinary saga
December 1, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
A documentary traces the life and times of B Govinda Rao and the iconic Bharat Tourist Home It was 1939, the beginning of World War II. St Teresa’s school in Ernakulam was converted to a…
December 1, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Purdah phobia
December 1, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Muslims continue to be stereotyped in art; the play Kithab is a case in point “More than half the students in Memunda Higher Secondary School are from Muslim families. Before staging the play, the authorities…
December 1, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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‘Secularism… is problematic’
December 1, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Malaysian islamic scholar chandra muzaffar (who has roots in Kerala) talks to toi on modernity and its discontents You talk about ‘colonisation of the mind’. Could you elaborate? The colonised mind is a phenomenon that…
December 1, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Past Imperfect: It’s Like Proust
December 1, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
An artist recovers his memory, fragment by painful fragment He tried to remember all night, the next day and sometimes for weeks. The missing words, the faded images, names of persons he knew very closely…
December 1, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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‘Kerala Belongs To Its Women’
November 24, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
His ‘Olu’ was the opening film of the Indian Panorama section at this year’s edition of International Film Festival of India. In a freewheeling conversation, the accomplished filmmaker spoke about his thematic obsessions, the visual…
November 24, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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‘ Who decides what should be knowledge’
November 17, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Left intellectual Rajan Gurukkal goes where dogmatic Marxists dare not. There is a lot that followers of Vulgar Marxism and ‘mechanical materialism’ can and should learn from Prof Rajan Gurukkal. To begin with, his insistence…
November 17, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Feminist flagbearer or agent provocateur?
November 17, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
A tomboyish figure, with her short hair, smart brown Nehru jacket and yellowcoloured kurta, Trupti Desai, is certainly not your average Ayyappa devotee. But appearance aside, she insists that that she is deeply religious and…
November 17, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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People as amazing as the corals
November 10, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Life in Lakshadweep is simply out of this world. On October 31, we woke up early at around 4am to watch the sunrise from MV Lagoons’ deck. It was dark though the moon was right…
November 10, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Sabarimala Temple: Juggernaut…
November 10, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
The Save Sabarimala rath yathra is unlikely to roil Kerala the way the historic Ram temple yathra did in the Hindi belt. The intention was loud and clear, and the political content too obvious to…
November 10, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Faith in elections
November 10, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Religion often determines votes, but its ‘misuse’ is legally hard to prove. Canvassing votes in the name of religion is a practice banned by law and invites disqualification of the candidate. But loopholes and impracticality…
November 10, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Story alone is not enough
November 3, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Prof M K Sanoo has some unsolicited advice for the current crop of Malayalam writers. The spirit of Dylan Thomas’s line, “Rage, rage against the dying of the light”, burns in the heart of Dr…
November 3, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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This theatre is no child’s play
November 3, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
At the upcoming International Children’s Theatre Festival, Rangaprabhath’s Andhan Naya will feature in the Indian Drama category. A home away from home and a school away from school. It’s been so for the last five…
November 3, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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The left’s Hindutva hangover
November 3, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Conversion to Islam might be the only genuine way to fight fascism. The Secretariat in Thiruvananthapuram is an unlikely place to get initiated into a new faith. But Kamal C Chavara chose the road in…
November 3, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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‘Muhammadan law is male chauvinistic in nature’
October 27, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Says former justice of Kerala High Court P K Shamsuddin. Through a series of judgments, Supreme Court has set the agenda for public discourse as never before. While many people have described them as historic,…
October 27, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Prince Fahadh
October 7, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Among his peers in Malayalam cinema, he has the surest shot to superstardom, yet Fahadh Faasil prefers to remain an uncrowned actor’s actor. The first thing that strikes you about Fahadh Faasil is his expressive…
October 7, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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