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Malayalam VOICES
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Antidote for a stigma
October 22, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
Translated content on vaccines helps fight a taboo Awareness is the best tool to fight lies. Jameela P, a native of Tirur in Malappuram, is using Wikipedia as a tool to fight the anti-vaccine campaign….
October 22, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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Sky fall
October 22, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
MP Anil Kumar’s career as a fighter pilot was cut short by a freak bike accident that confined his life to a wheelchair. A new biography pays tribute to the Malayali ace’s never-say-die spirit A…
October 22, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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Tears, terror and wounds that never heal
October 15, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
In murdered Remid’s home, his mother and sister confront the void ‘Pinarayi’, reads the sign board in a corner next to the tiny house facing the Thalassery-Pinarayi road. When you enter the house ‘Karunyam’, it…
October 15, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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It’s official: Elena ia Anita
October 8, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
Last Sunday, a WikiLeaks-style expose unmasked the real identity of Elena Ferrante, the celebrated author of the Neapolitan Novels. But much before ‘Ferrante fever’ gripped the literary world, Rebecca Falkoff wrote of how anonymity alone…
October 8, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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Never forget the Gujarat genocide
October 8, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
Rakesh Sharma’s Final Solution documented the post-Godhra pogrom of 2002. Fourteen years later, in a sequel, he tries to understand what made thousands of ordinary Hindus complicit in unspeakable violence against Muslims. In an exhaustive…
October 8, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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Where khaki knickers are a red rag
September 24, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
“In every Hindu there is a dormant swayam sevak”: A pracharak-turned comrade’s unwitting confession Adwajam (flag) is hoisted on a temporary pole at the edge of the ground where 25 swayam sevaks are assembled for…
September 24, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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Crime and redemption
September 24, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
Violent young men experience a different conversion On Friday evening, Thamaram, a small hamlet near Kalady in Thiruvananthapuram has a special visitor. The supreme head of RSS, sar sangh chalak Mohan Bhagwat, arrives and joins…
September 24, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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Inner Sanghtum – Nerds of the ring
September 24, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
The shakha is the cornerstone of the Sangh Parivar, and Kerala has the most shakhas in India. Is the shakha a fascist nursery, a boy scout movement with adult fantasies or an incubator for aspirational…
September 24, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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What is this hijab business?
September 17, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
Certain truths, even when uttered by a believer, can be construed as incendiary. Is it because truth is always unpalatable or is moderation in tone the key to reform in the community? Two Muslim voices…
September 17, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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God doesn’t need us to save him
September 17, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
Life has never been the same for E A Jabbar, the rationalist from Malappuram, ever since he decided to take on religious orthodoxy and extremism in his own community. The retired school teacher who faced…
September 17, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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A book titled Shelvy
September 17, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
A recent reprint reveals how the late poet’s life and work were as open-ended as they were prophetic When he decided to end his life 13 years ago, which is still a mystery in Kerala’s…
September 17, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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Crown of thorns
September 10, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
Come Onam, we give a mythical king his rightful due, but no such reparation awaits the descendants of Kerala’s royal families Every sundown, the frail, elderly man is a fixture along the streets of Tripunithura….
September 10, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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In the Tamil heartland, a Malayali community celebrates Onam in its own unique way
September 10, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
As the village loudspeakers hum a Tamil tune, Chellammal sings an onapattu and the women folk sway and shuffle along just like thiruvathira dancers. They circle around a pookalam laid inside a traditional Tamil kolam….
September 10, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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A passage to India
September 3, 2016, 4:46 PM IST
The whole world knows that it was Malcolm Muggeridge, the well-known British journalist, who made Mother Teresa a worldwide celebrity through his 1969 BBC documentary ‘Something Beautiful for God’ and his 1971 book of the…
September 3, 2016, 4:46 PM IST
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Mother superior
September 3, 2016, 3:32 PM IST
Did the Saint of the Gutters conspire to keep the poor trapped in poverty so that her self-righteous streak could be pampered? When his detractors arched their eyebrows on seeing Christ have his feet washed…
September 3, 2016, 3:32 PM IST
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Chiaroscuro on stage
August 27, 2016, 2:22 PM IST
A dance performance by Attakkalari reconciles opposites, and captures the stillness at the heart of motion A group of young ladies in beautiful saris stand still in the middle of an immense junction. Suddenly, as…
August 27, 2016, 2:22 PM IST
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When biriyani became haram
August 27, 2016, 1:58 PM IST
A short story gets a long dissection After a long time, a Malayalam short story has stirred a heated debate over the notion of political correctness in literature. Biriyani, by Kerala Sahitya Akademi award-winning writer…
August 27, 2016, 1:58 PM IST
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Natural birth: A risky but rewarding choice
August 27, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
‘Why I should hold back myself?’ The question set her thinking. Recouping her energy after having her first baby, the first thing Razia Rahim started exploring was is there a way to get out of…
August 27, 2016, 7:00 AM IST
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Mum is the word
August 20, 2016, 3:53 PM IST
Most surrogate mothers prefer to keep what they do a secret, as there is social stigma attached to such ‘commercial’ baby makers It has been six months since Kochi resident Geeta (30) delivered a baby…
August 20, 2016, 3:53 PM IST
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Naked truth
August 20, 2016, 3:46 PM IST
By Aswin J Kumar and T C Sreemol It is not just paucity of those willing to pose in the nude; the very study of the human form is no longer central to the fine arts…
August 20, 2016, 3:46 PM IST
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