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Does Ushnarashi deserve the Vayalar award?
October 6, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Normally, the selection of a novel that deals with the Vayalar struggle for the coveted Vayalar Award needs to be hailed as a laudable act and a fitting tribute to Vayalar Ramavarma, who had identified…
October 6, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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‘It is not written from a CPM or CPI angle’
October 6, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Born in Cherthala to K Velayudhan Pillai and Lakshmikutty Amma, K V Mohankumar began his career as a journalist before migrating to government service. The winner of the 42nd Vayalar Award, he also wrote the…
October 6, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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GOD FORBID: Nuns As Priests Next?
September 29, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
The SC judgment will open a Pandora’s Box. The euphoria is palpable. Almost everyone is celebrating the SC verdict on women’s entry to Sabarimala as a Magna Carta of gender equality. But, is it really…
September 29, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Enter women, exit misogyny
September 29, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Male prejudice insists on portraying young and sexually-active female pilgrims as apsaras bent on distracting a celibate deity. The former president of Travancore Devaswom Board is on record saying that menstruating women entering the Sabarimala…
September 29, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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The Menstrual Taboo Is A Myth
September 29, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Women’s rights and gender equality are beside the point here; Sabarimala is all about the power of renunciation. Every temple and deity has a constitution of its own. Through the Supreme Court verdict, the basic…
September 29, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Have Faith In Francis
September 22, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Women are the cornerstone of the Catholic Church and the Pope recognises this as few others do Jesus had many female friends; notable among them was Martha, whose company he cherished the most. She was…
September 22, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Nothing is taboo among the clergy; a nun speaks out
September 22, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
I was born after my two-and-a-half-year-old sister’s death. My brother is 14 years older to me, and being the youngest in the family, I was everyone’s darling…While studying in Class VII, our catechism teacher, who…
September 22, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Semantics, Phonetics and the Lexicographer’s art
September 15, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Most experts agree that OUP’s English-English-Malayalam dictionary is the best of its kind In his first edition of Dictionary of the English Language published in 1755, Samuel Johnson defined a lexicographer as a ‘harmless drudge’,…
September 15, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Intifada of images
September 15, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Graphic novels have become weapons of protest. From receiving government aid to produce an essentially antigovernment graphic novel to fearing arrest and bullets for posting political cartoons online, Orijit Sen has seen comics in India…
September 15, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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The ascetic & the erotic
September 15, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Despite his pathbreaking radicalism, Sree Narayana Guru considered women’s bodies defiling, and sensuality a hurdle to truth-seekers In the 69th sloka of Shiva Satakam, Sree Narayana Guru asks Lord Shiva to keep him away from…
September 15, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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People’s Enemy No. 1
September 8, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
The Maoists and the state beget each other. The arrest of writers and intellectuals branding them as ‘urban Naxals’ is a significant turning point in the history of the country in many respects. In fact,…
September 8, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Waiting for the midnight knock
September 8, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Anand Teltumbde once had breakfast with me! The recent arrests of activists – two lawyers, a teacher, journalist and social worker – and police raids on the premises of many others have sent a chill…
September 8, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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From selfies to sacrifice
September 1, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Every cloud has a silver lining. For flood-battered Kerala, there’s still a ray of hope. It’s reinventing the spirit of social engagement and sacrifice in a society that had embraced the path of materialistic pursuit…
September 1, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Mr Know-straw-dam-us and other heroes
September 1, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Dear Applicants, We regret to inform you that your applications have been turned down. Reasons for the rejection are given alongside the respective justifications you made. Mr Panic from London Mr Panic contacted this newspaper…
September 1, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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We are fundamental-ists now
September 1, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Cheruthoni The river has recovered her flesh and soul once again. We had stripped her naked, and then into a skeleton, but now she has become voluptuous once again. George Joseph’s words struck me, amid…
September 1, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Kerala rains: Apocalypse now
August 11, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Rising waters is not the ‘spectacle’ made out on TV. When experienced up-close, they reveal the fragility of things and the futility of our egos. At ground zero in Cheruthoni, TOI reporter M K Sunil…
August 11, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Dams be damned
August 11, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Rivers should be allowed to run their natural course. Constructing humongous new dams is no more a trending fashion anywhere in the world. There are even countries that keep on demolishing dams to revive the…
August 11, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Poda Vedi: Women give it back
August 4, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Kerala’s dalit feminists move beyond victimhood to transform #MeToo to #HeToo 1996: Kerala’s conscience was stirred when a girl hailing from Suryanelli alleged that she was raped by 37 men. Though many of the culprits…
August 4, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Forget the deluge, behold Idukki’s beauty
August 4, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Cheruthony and its inhabitants have a pristine quality that touristy Munnar and Thekkady sorely lack Dressed in a blue lungi and blouse and with a thorthu on her shoulder, Thankamma walks down the narrow steps…
August 4, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Running with the hare, hunting with the hounds
July 28, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
The CPM defends S Hareesh but silences its own S Ramesan! The CPM is a great irony, a straight-jacketed one at that, and nowadays it is more like a Semitic religion. That is why it…
July 28, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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