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Malayalam VOICES
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Sage & Cynic
October 14, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
At a time when educational institutions all over the country are beginning to resemble prison houses or military barracks or assembly lines of the Chaplinesque kind, the passing away of V C Harris is the…
October 14, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
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Playback & Piano
October 7, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
Orfeo Quintet, a Western classical band, reconnects with its Malayali roots Most Malayalis on social media have probably watched the viral video of an orchestra offering a refreshing take on the popular 90’s song ‘padakaali’….
October 7, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
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A Small-Town Sea
October 7, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
Thalassery was once an entrepot that gave back to the world as much as it received The rich and varied history of Thalassery, which was the hub of commercial and cultural activities of Malabar not so…
October 7, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
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Questioning Islam is taboo
October 7, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
In ‘secular’ Kerala, fundamentalism seems to have only one colour – saffron! Dr K S Radhakrishnan’s new book, Islam Bahuswarata Samuhatil (Islam in pluralistic society), is a collection of essays that attempts to understand why…
October 7, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
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SELIN Doesn’t Like Makeup
September 25, 2017, 5:12 PM IST
Her poor but proud parents help a 17-yr-old negotiate her transgender identity Selin has a shy face and is clad in a magenta churidar. Her long and thick hair is neatly braided, and when you…
September 25, 2017, 5:12 PM IST
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Caste away
September 23, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
Who are the Moosaths second-class Nambuthiris or elite brahmins? The Moosath (also called Moo sad or Moos) community in Kerala would be around just 2,500 people, which includes many over-aged bachelors and spinsters, and…
September 23, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
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Today it’s Gauri, tomorrow it can be Siva
September 23, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
As a revolutionary poet, he remains torn between societal and domestic obligations. At 75, frail but spirited, K Siva Reddy keeps asking himself about the extent of courage one should possess while fighting tyranny and…
September 23, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
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Carnatic in C minor
September 16, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
At Salim Nair’s concerts, a sitar can sound like a santoor, even a saxophone In quantum mechanics, every particle has its wave function but if the system is not perfectly isolated, the particle will slowly…
September 16, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
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Agraharathil Kavithayi
September 16, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
A new book on Palakkad Iyers dispels myths about a community often vilified for its snobbishness and superstitions Palakkad Iyers speak Thalayalam, a mishmash of Malayalam and Tamil. Though Tamil is their mother tongue, puritans…
September 16, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
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Learn from Kabuki
September 16, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
Koodiyattam is furiously experimenting, though purists warn it shouldn’t be at the cost of the ancient art form’s intrinsic spirit The comprehensive performance manuals of koodiyattam, complete with choreographic texts and codified gestures, are no…
September 16, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
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Fear over the city
September 9, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
Gauri’s murder has suddenly brought home how vulnerable every dissenting voice is today A day after Gauri Lankesh was shot dead in cold blood at her house in Bengaluru, a woman friend, outspoken and…
September 9, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
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What killed Gauri?
September 9, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
The ‘why’ of her murder is as important as the whodunit Is Lord Shiva A Hindu? On the Lingayat issue, Gauri asked an implicit question that was as profound as it was provocative Towards the…
September 9, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
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Jumping the gun
September 9, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
Leftliberal cause-junkies always try to to make Sangh Parivar the scapegoat Even before investigations have begun in right ear nest in the murder of Gauri Lankesh, the verdicts are out and the ready-to-protest groups of…
September 9, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
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The Rationing Of Pleasure
September 2, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
Men have always been frightened of women’s sexuality, and female genital mutilation is just one more proof of that In the male imagination, female sexuality remains the Dark Continent -an enigmatic and threatening phenomenon that…
September 2, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
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Body double
September 2, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
Biologically, they are perfectly normal men and women. Yet they want to change their gender. Any clue why? A 70-year-old family man with three children recently approached a Kochi based hospital for hormonal treatment to…
September 2, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
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Original copy
August 12, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
Writers in Kerala are only now waking up to what translation demands When Arundhati Roy published her Booker Prize-winning novel, The God of Small Things, in which the main characters occasionally spoke Malayalam to a…
August 12, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
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Women’s world
August 12, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
A struggling magazine challenges gender stereotypes in more ways than one Jisha.Surya@timesgroup.com Sanghaditha, a monthly magazine in Malayalam, is unique in taking a path less travelled. The women-only Sanghaditha team does all work related to…
August 12, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
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Ghetto gallery
August 12, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
Thirteen artists defy the touristy gaze to portray Mattancherry in its true colours She was born in Cochin and raised by Cochin winds; she wrote and spoke good Malayalam, yet her soul belonged somewhere else….
August 12, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
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Fate accompli
August 6, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
By staging plays like Oedipus, has the legendary KPAC itself become a dubious myth? Once, Kerala People’s Arts Club’s (KPAC) Ningalenne Communistakki was among Kerala’s most iconic art productions, a play that had, both, a…
August 6, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
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Curlicues And Arabesques
August 5, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
A designers and artists’ collective gets creative with the Malayalam alphabet The Malayalam alphabet, with its twists and turns, might look weird to a non-Malayali. But these twists and turns make them a designers’ favourite….
August 5, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
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