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Mathrubhumi English |
Politics is often less about what is happening than about what people are persuaded to look at. Governments understand this instinctively. They know...
A group of teenage girls at Delhi's Jantar Mantar, tears streaming down their faces, stand before a line of riot police singing the national...
Every generation has its defining protest, but not every protest becomes a defining political moment. The agitation led by the Cockroach Janta Party...
Kerala today presents an unusual political paradox: a government overwhelmed by the problems of plenty and an Opposition paralysed by the problems of...
India has grown accustomed to celebrating ISRO’s triumphs. Every successful launch, every lunar mission and every satellite deployment is rightly...
“Partition” has become a two-edged sword for filmmakers who often reveal an interest in holding up a mirror to the Partition of India in general...
India's ethanol blending programme has been marketed as a patriotic, environmentally responsible and economically prudent initiative. The promise...
I had the recent pleasure, in Delhi, to celebrate not only the publication of another book by Her Highness Princess Aswathi Thirunal Gouri Lakshmi...
Every war begins with a declared objective, but very few end with one. Somewhere between the first missile and the thousandth funeral, objectives give...
Kerala's bus network is in structural decline. The availability of bus services in the state fell from one bus for every 910 people in 2000 to...
The World cup has now come to the crucial phase. Three more matches and then emerges the new World champion of indeed the globe’s most popular...
The brief memorandum of understanding between Washington and Tehran was seen by many serious observers of the West Asia conundrum as the first sign...
The world premiere of the 4K restored version of acclaimed filmmaker Mrinal Sen’s Telugu classic Oka Oorie Katha (1977) is currently underway at...
New Delhi: With the implementation of the new EPF scheme, 12% of the statutory wage limit will go into the PF, while 8.33% from the employer's...
The proposed sale of a 49 per cent stake in Adani Vizhinjam Port Private Limited to the Mediterranean Shipping Company has raised questions that...
Jana Aranya (The Middleman) is the final film in Satyajit Ray’s Calcutta trilogy Pratidwandi (The Rival) and Simabaddha (Company Limited). Though...
The beautiful game on Earth has perhaps just begun to generate energy and trigger excitement around the globe. That might sound like a strange...
Like the dark clouds giving way to bright sunshine, the FIFA World Cup has moved from the phase of criticisms and pessimism to the best of football...
For decades, the "Kerala Model of Development" was heralded as a radiant beacon of progressive governance, boasting social development...
There are comedians who perfect a screen persona and spend an entire career refining it. And then there was Salim Kumar. He didn't merely change...
Killing infants by paranoid tyrants to eliminate their perceived future enemies is a recurring theme in both mythology and history, across time and...
For years, Israel's political leadership has argued that Iran represents the central challenge to peace and stability in West Asia. Whether the...
The first budget of the V D Satheesan government is a serious attempt at economic course correction. At the same time, it is also a reminder that...
On and around June 9, 2026, a full page advertisement appeared in several English and Tamil newspapers — and presumably in all Indian newspapers —...
It was not just Spain—one of the strongest favourites to lift the 23rd FIFA World Cup—that was left stunned by the heroics of 40-year-old...
Robert Connell, a pioneer in the study of masculinities seen in works such as Masculinities (1995), Masculinities and Globalisation in Men and...
The announcement of a fourteen-point interim agreement between the United States and Iran has been hailed in some quarters as a diplomatic...
There is something almost surreal about the way the world is being asked to receive the announcement of a supposed peace deal between the United...
The challenge of drugs is not unique to Kerala. Across India, many states are confronting the same problem. The growth of synthetic drugs, the spread...
On 8 October 2023, the day after the Hamas attack on Israel, United States Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered USS Gerald R. Ford and her carrier...
Female bonding, specially the mother-daughter relationship in cinema continues to provide a rich seam of source material for filmmakers around the...
For months now, the world has been subjected to a spectacle that would be amusing were it not so dangerous. Every few days, Donald Trump emerges to...
Every few months, a familiar argument resurfaces in India's political discourse. Rahul Gandhi, we are told, will be vindicated by history. He may...
Our smart young guide in Shanghai introduced himself as Thomas. Explaining that it was only his English name, he said his real name was Wang. No, it...
For years, Kerala's fiscal debate resembled a village festival loudspeaker. Everyone shouted, and nobody listened. While one side insisted...
Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi has stirred fresh political debate by warning of an ‘economic tsunami’ in India. Speaking on economic...
There was a time when political debate involved the tedious business of arguments. One would read an article, disagree with it, marshal a few facts,...
I had the privilege of participating in the launch of Operation Toofan in Thiruvananthapuram – the first major new initiative of the new Government...
In every sense it was a fitting finale for IPL 2026. A 90,000 plus crowd at the biggest cricket facility in the country, the Narendra Modi stadium in...
The Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad witnessed another remarkable IPL final on Sunday. Royal Challengers Bengaluru defeated Gujarat Titans to lift...
The restored 4K version of the Malayalam feature, the late John Abraham’s Amma Ariyan (Report to Mother, 1986) was screened at the Cannes Film...
Cockroach is not a bad word or an abuse. A search in Wikipedia will reveal that cockroaches have retained their basic body structure for roughly 200...
The most striking image from the aftermath of the Enforcement Directorate search connected to Pinarayi Vijayan’s daughter, Veena Thaikkandiyil, was...
What unfolded in Thiruvananthapuram on the May 27 was not the conduct of a political movement confident in its innocence. It was the behaviour of a...
During a recent family vlog, YouTuber Diya Krishna aka Ozy Talkies addressed a question from subscribers about why she calls her in-laws “aunty”...
“It’s just all accumulating together. We have frayed relations with the U.S. over tariffs, we are on the wrong side of the AI mania, we are a big...
The most revealing part of the Left's crushing defeat in Kerala has not been the defeat itself. Elections are lost all the time, governments...
Pratidwandi (The Adversary) is said to be the first among the three city-centered films Satyajit Ray made. This celluloid journey began in 1970 to be...
The IPL feast is reaching the playoff stage and, indeed, it has been exciting all the way as the ten teams did their bit to earn a slot in this final...
Donald Trump now claims that he paused another attack on Iran after Gulf leaders urged him to step back and give diplomacy another chance. One almost...
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