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Invitation to a beheading
July 28, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
It goes without saying that a writer should have the unfettered freedom to criticise anyone or anything; what is moot is whether it should be at the cost of artistry Good Politics, Bad Writing In…
July 28, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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The beevis and their birthright
July 21, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Treating women as equals is the erstwhile Arakkal dynasty’s lasting legacy When Fathima Muthu Beevi assumed the title of Arakkal Beevi on July 1, the only Muslim ‘dynasty’ in the state once again demonstrated how…
July 21, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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The double
July 21, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Renowned translator A J Thomas on Dostoevsky, Oru Sankeertanam Pole and what liberties to take in English without compromising on fidelity to the original Malayalam It’s been 25 years since the publication of Perumpadavam Sreedharan’s…
July 21, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Defender of muslims?
July 21, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
How relevant is NDF / PFI / SDPI’s militant ideology in a democratic society like ours? In the beginning of the 1990s, Samastha Kerala Sunni Students Federation (SKSSF) leaders noticed a strange behaviour among some…
July 21, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Cultivating the imagination
July 14, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
‘Organic Theatre’ aims to revive the natural bond between agriculture and art It’s a pioneering effort to reinvent Kerala’s agrarian culture and rural theatre. The initiative by Bharat Bhavan aims to show the new generation…
July 14, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Rama’s many avatars
July 14, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
As Karkadakam begins and we start re-reading the Ramayana (the ultimate redacted text), it is crucial to remember that there is no single, authorised version of this epic or its main protagonist The Ramayana Masacharanam…
July 14, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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It’s their habit
July 7, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
The cassock and the cross increase their temptations, and no one depicted unholy priests better than Ponkunnam Varkey …Annakkutty didn’t turn up at the church for kurbana (mass) that day. Father Teeler inquired about it…
July 7, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Vypeen As Manhattan
July 7, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Supercomputers can help turn marsh into metropolis, says Kerala-origin head of the US govt’s top lab Summit will change the way we live. In probably the next 20 years, the world’s fastest computer will find…
July 7, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Bats, Humans and the missing links
July 7, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Be warned, the Kozhikode Nipah outbreak may not be a one-off event The health authorities in Kerala have been rightly lauded for the speed and efficiency with which they contained the Nipah outbreak in Kozhikode….
July 7, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Mozart for the masses
June 30, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Move over pop, Kerala’s New Gen gets ready for some serious music Alexander Briger wears a perpetual frown, somewhat disorienting to a wannabe interviewer, but the moment the subject turns to music, his hands become…
June 30, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Itjihad not Jihad
June 30, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Islam is not an Arab tribal ideology but a universal religion, a distinction many of its adherents would do well to note, says one of Europe’s foremost Muslim scholars Dr Sabrina Lei is into the…
June 30, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Why should men have all the fun?
June 23, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
There are no girls-only gangs watching the action, but the few women glued in aren’t complaining A few years ago, I was watching ‘Afghan Girls Can Kick’ on big screen, probably at some film festival….
June 23, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Easy But Elegant
June 9, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Prof Panmana Ramachandran Nair, who passed away early this week, was a crusader for ‘correct’ Malayalam Prof Panmana Ramachandran Nair was a relentless crusader for correctness of Malayalam usage. In our times, when the mother…
June 9, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Recipe for decency
June 9, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
This FB group has a million Malayali members and not a single troll One of the pictures posted in the group It has over 11 lakh members but chances are you haven’t heard of it….
June 9, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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The son rises in the east
June 9, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
As the world awaits the Trump-Kim Jong Un summit on Tuesday, here’s a rare firsthand account from a Keralite on life inside North Korea I got a first taste of North Korea when I crossed…
June 9, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Life In The Time Of Nipah
June 2, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Perambra, the epicentre of a potential epidemic, is not exactly a ghost town though it is certainly haunted “Please don’t tell the driver straight away that you are going to Perambra. Tell him that you…
June 2, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Let’s talk about Kevin
June 2, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
About 70 years ago, an aunt with long, lustrous hair was trapped by the floating roots of the water hyacinth in the bathing pond. The more she tried to untangle herself, the more she was…
June 2, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Expect #MeToo Here Soon
June 2, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
Right now, Women in Cinema Collective is taking one thing at a time It’s not easy trying to give a facelift to an industry that reflects male faces. Like how the main protagonists are always…
June 2, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Fourth estate & fifth column
May 26, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
There is something common in the avocation of a lawyer and a journalist. Ideally, a lawyer or a journalist is situated between the state and the citizen and she undertakes the task of emancipating the…
May 26, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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Here come our own Jay Z and Baby Cee
May 26, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
The crew of PoleStar Dance Studio is an anomaly — an assistant professor, a sound engineer, a catering service boy, a school student and an airport employee – but that is only apt considering what…
May 26, 2018, 7:00 AM IST
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