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It’s About Freedom & Right To Life
June 3, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
Is there conclusive evidence that the girl is ‘vulnerable’ or ‘gullible’? This girl is free and the court has granted her to parental custody. Whether the court can do so is debatable. There was a…
June 3, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
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Judgment Is An Eye-opener
June 3, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
The high court decision is a signal contribution to rescue jurisprudence The judgment of the division bench of the Kerala high court in Akhila’s case has evoked not just rambunctious debates but even inflammatory protests…
June 3, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
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Bilkis Bano and a forgotten genocide
May 13, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
During the eight months she went undercover as ‘Maithili Tyagi’, a fictitious 26-year-old American film student working on a docu in Gujarat, journalist Rana Ayyub had felt a lot lighter. That, despite the obvious danger…
May 13, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
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The Sufi question
May 13, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
Are dervishes and dargahs the beautiful, moderate face of Islam or a smokescreen to keep Muslims subservient? The word Sufi conjures an image of pious men in the intense pursuit of the absolute, renouncing the…
May 13, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
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Gandhi adored her, Ambedkar sought her advice
May 13, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
An upcoming autobiography of Dakshayani Velayudhan could provide perspective to the current struggles of Dalits and women When a young girl from Mulavukad, till not so long ago a weary boat-ride from Kochi’s Marine Drive,…
May 13, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
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Pitch perfect
May 6, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
Oscar-winner Resul Pookutty used 250 sound tracks (a big budget Bollywood movie has 24 at best), and his own exceptional ear, to capture Thrissur Pooram’s unique acoustics It is the biggest acoustic challenge Resul Pookutty…
May 6, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
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No curfew for Qawwali
May 6, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
The lyrics are in Urdu but Mehfil-e-Sama’a’s music transcends all traces of religion The first feeling is of surprise, at how the stereotype has been defied – instead of men in flowing white pajamas and…
May 6, 2017, 7:00 AM IST
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Enchanted woods: Sacred groves are being meticulously documented in a desperate effort to save our kavus
April 1, 2017, 8:32 PM IST
Sacred groves (kavu) are considered by the devout as the abode of snake gods, but the way in which nature and mystery are entwined in them they are an intrinsic part of the Malayali psyche…
April 1, 2017, 8:32 PM IST
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The Prophet beyond the pale: RSS ideologue P Parameswaran’s intellectual acuity and humanist credentials have not been sufficiently recognised due to the Left’s hegemony in political discourse
April 1, 2017, 7:41 PM IST
P Parameswaran, who turns 90 this year and whose navati celebrations are scheduled to begin on Saturday, is considered to be the senior-most Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh pracharak in Kerala and is the organization’s principal ideologue….
April 1, 2017, 7:41 PM IST
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A village by the sea
April 1, 2017, 7:34 PM IST
Cholamandal was once a revolutionary idea. But, with biennales and site-specific art mushrooming, has the concept of an artists’ colony lost its relevance? It’s typical Chennai weather, sultry and stifling, but the exclusive artists’ colony…
April 1, 2017, 7:34 PM IST
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Should Muslims believe in the Jinn? The hard-won Mujahid reformation movement is in danger of being undone
March 11, 2017, 6:37 PM IST
They fashioned themselves as passionate reformers who sought to recapture the religious purity of purpose in a society steeped in ‘un-Islamic’ practices. They fought against rampant superstitions and backward-looking orthodoxy that stalled modern education. And…
March 11, 2017, 6:37 PM IST
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Waah Taj…. Zakir Hussain’s thayambaka on tabla turned into a monumental performance
March 11, 2017, 6:33 PM IST
by Mattannoor Sankarankutty Marar Our festival season has reached halfway, and as always is the case, it is packed with concerts across the state, but for me this season will always remain special in my…
March 11, 2017, 6:33 PM IST
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Kali not Kannagi
March 11, 2017, 6:22 PM IST
The Attukal bhagavathy is a subaltern deity. The Chilappathikaram connection is a myth foisted by the brahminical order to domesticate the far more subversive archetype of the ‘wounded woman’ [cf: wounds are at the threshold…
March 11, 2017, 6:22 PM IST
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Appwardly mobile
November 26, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
The neologism ‘webtrovert’ captures the split personality of social media addicts Ashish N, who works in a top IT company, has just been thrown out of his ‘official’ group. A typical techie, whose day begins…
November 26, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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Stage fright
November 26, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
Toxic chemicals in their makeup are affecting the performance and threatening to cut short the careers of many kathakali artists The thirasheela falls to re veal vividly-painted faces, as vandana shlokam and kelikottu resound in…
November 26, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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Burden of the body
November 26, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
One-act plays by women dare the audience to shift their gaze from performer to performance The actor is alone on stage, and the onus is on her to keep the silhouettes in the dimly-lit hall…
November 26, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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A tree, a parachute, a face
October 29, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
A US-based Malayali artist uses calligraphy and plain doodles to create onomatopoetic images Inspired by graphic novels that have a global readership, US-based poet, and graphic artist Dona Mayoora is exploring the possibility of a…
October 29, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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‘I wanted to see if I could make myself flinch’
October 29, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
On Wednesday, Paul Beatty became the first American to win the Man Booker Prize. His The Sellout is humorous, scabrous and subversive in equal measure. Unlike, say, Marlon James’s Kingston patois or James McBride’s Kansas…
October 29, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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Ivory tower: A lone artist struggles to create elegant hand-carved elephants for a market that has shrunk to a handful of connoisseurs
October 29, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
The elephant stands in the shed, majestic and ready for ‘ezhunellippu’. About 6-foot tall, he ‘watches’ people pass by, others who stop to admire him. He has been standing there in the shed in the…
October 29, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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Growing pineapple in the desert
October 22, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
For Israeli writer Iris Eliya Cohen, reclaiming her Cochinni Jewish roots is as much about imagination as getting a physical sense of her ancestors’ culture. Excerpts from an interview, where she dwells on her abiding…
October 22, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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