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Return of the repressed
August 20, 2016, 3:40 PM IST
Award-winning director Chandradasan’s Kaali Naatakam deals with Dalit identity and retribution but is it at the cost of exploring more interesting mythical aspects? In a village play, the demon Darika kills the goddess Kali. Natural…
August 20, 2016, 3:40 PM IST
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Dead and dreaming
August 13, 2016, 3:52 PM IST
The paintings of surrealist master Salvador Dali have a psychedelic element that questions the usual notions of time and space. “One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality…
August 13, 2016, 3:52 PM IST
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Amar’s vichitra katha
August 13, 2016, 3:50 PM IST
The adolescent antics of the hero of the Butterfingers series are subtle primers for real-life challenges At an age when superheroes and mythology rule the roost in children’s literature, writer A Khyrunnisa is a trailblazer….
August 13, 2016, 3:50 PM IST
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Citizen cain
August 13, 2016, 3:46 PM IST
With his dark and haunting films that expose the evil dormant in each of us, renowned movie maker K G George has ensured his Welles-ian status as one of the ‘ultimate auteurs’ in Malayalam cinema….
August 13, 2016, 3:46 PM IST
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Imagine Kalidasa composing for the apsaras
August 6, 2016, 3:57 PM IST
A famous dancer recounts the late Kavalam Narayana Panicker’s little-known but seminal contribution to Mohiniyattam The first time I saw Mohiniyattam it was being performed by Indrani Rehman and I was totally smitten by its…
August 6, 2016, 3:57 PM IST
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A river sutra
August 6, 2016, 3:22 PM IST
The 13-day Nila Trail does away with the frills of the usual tourist package. It is more like entering an enchanted time machine and being transported back to a shared though almost-forgotten Kerala heritage…
August 6, 2016, 3:22 PM IST
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Rocking the boat
July 30, 2016, 4:26 PM IST
Fusion band Agam is all about questioning tradition and heeding one’s musical instincts Managing music, a day job and making time for family is all about “how much you want it,” says Harish Shivaramakrishnan, lead…
July 30, 2016, 4:26 PM IST
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Stories have only one language
July 30, 2016, 4:18 PM IST
Ronit Chacham, a writer and playwright based in Jerusalem, spoke exclusively to TOI in Kochi on the Jewish-Arab conflict, on forgotten minorities and, most importantly, why we must preserve our oral traditions. You seem very…
July 30, 2016, 4:18 PM IST
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Abha, why have you forsaken me
July 30, 2016, 4:02 PM IST
The exact words Christ last uttered on the cross are no longer extant. But in the true Biblical spirit that what has been lost can be found, a Malayali priest based in New York is…
July 30, 2016, 4:02 PM IST
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Beauty is a male thing too
July 23, 2016, 4:07 PM IST
More men are undergoing cosmetic surgery to correct even slight deformities An intelligent, lively and polished boy, Sharath (name changed) became suddenly withdrawn when he touched teens. He refused to go to temple or play…
July 23, 2016, 4:07 PM IST
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Have you thought about her?
July 23, 2016, 3:55 PM IST
A close relative of the woman at the heart of the July 14 molestation incident narrates the victim’s trauma My ‘cousin’ is scared. She doesn’t sleep properly. She is afraid her identity will be revealed…
July 23, 2016, 3:55 PM IST
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‘Don’ of an era
July 23, 2016, 3:37 PM IST
Unlike his Mollywood counterparts, Rajinikanth can get away with murder, Kabali and worse. One possible explanation for his incredible stardom is that he reserves his acting (and antics) only for the movie camera. For a…
July 23, 2016, 3:37 PM IST
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Love and jihad make for an incendiary mix
July 16, 2016, 4:45 PM IST
Along with Wilson Thomas Neighbours and relatives describe her as a devout Christian who religiously read the Bible during parish prayer meetings. Friends call her a modern girl who loved everything Western, be it music…
July 16, 2016, 4:45 PM IST
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Let’s debate not divide
July 16, 2016, 4:33 PM IST
It was over a decade ago, sometime in the early 2000s, that I went to listen to a speech by Zakir Naik while living in Thiruvananthapuram. It was the time when Muslim women of that…
July 16, 2016, 4:33 PM IST
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It’s tough love, not hate speech
July 16, 2016, 4:24 PM IST
Can words uttered in good faith become a motivation for terror and bloodshed? Does plain talking implicitly incite violence? Islamic preacher Zakir Naik of Peace TV-fame has been accused of exactly that. Two practising Muslims…
July 16, 2016, 4:24 PM IST
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‘Islamic fundamentalism is a search for an ethical framework’
July 16, 2016, 3:51 PM IST
Not known to pull his punches, renowned sociologist and political analyst Ashis Nandy who was in Kochi on Friday – talks to TOI on how Islamic extremism is in many ways a byproduct of…
July 16, 2016, 3:51 PM IST
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Crow chronicles
July 2, 2016, 4:41 PM IST
A digital doodle combines humour, word-play and wry social commentary to cock a genre-bending snook at Kerala’s sanctimonious artistic hierarchy. The fold of two hills, the sun rising from behind—what any child would instinctively draw….
July 2, 2016, 4:41 PM IST
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A woman in no man’s land
July 2, 2016, 4:28 PM IST
Theatre in a conflict zone can be liberating but the artist has to be wary of potential booby traps every step of the way Nandita Dinesh is an ‘outsider’ twice over. The first is by…
July 2, 2016, 4:28 PM IST
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Transcendence
July 2, 2016, 3:54 PM IST
By Viju B Every night, Miga usually positions herself outside an upmarket ice cream parlour near South overbridge in Kochi, soliciting people for sex. Her silhouetted figure, in the backdrop of the long French windows,…
July 2, 2016, 3:54 PM IST
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Love in the time of Intifada
June 25, 2016, 5:49 PM IST
A Malayalam novel dares to venture on to the minefield that the Palestinian ’cause’ has become in Kerala. Write down! I am an Arab and my identity card number is fifty thousand I have eight…
June 25, 2016, 5:49 PM IST
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