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There are few joys in public life as deeply personal as watching a young talent you have known since boyhood rise to fulfil the promise you sensed in...
It was a Sunday that will be long remembered by sports fans in the country for two reasons. One for the brave run of badminton star Lakshya Sen in the...
Another war has broken out. Israel is the provocateur. The United States is the executioner. Israel has convinced President Donald Trump that Iran...
Rape in cinema has certain specific functions. One of these is to arouse the male in the audience sexually. Another is to use, to a certain extent,...
For decades, the discourse surrounding the Vizhinjam International Transshipment Port has been anchored in the language of civil engineering-24 metres...
The only landmark of Venmony, a quaint village on the banks of the Achankovil river near Chengannur in Alappuzha district, has long been the...
President Donald Trump was apoplectic in his reaction to the judgment of the US Supreme Court striking down the ‘reciprocal’ tariffs that he had...
Adoor Gopalakrishnan has made relatively few films during his around five-decade span as filmmaker. In 2016, he made Pinneyum (Once Again) in...
A Delhi court has done something both ordinary and extraordinary. It has simply applied the law. In acquitting Arvind Kejriwal in two cases arising...
Thiruvananthapuram is getting ready for its annual big bash – the Attukal Pongala. It is a one-of-a-kind experience even by Kerala standards. Lakhs...
In the tightly contained world of the Malayalee imagination, where anything that strays from the accepted staples is met with suspicion, arrived a...
Absolutely stunned. That was what happened to the 90,000 plus crowd at the Narendra Modi stadium after watching India collapse to South Africa in a...
November 4, 1977. An Indian Air Force special aircraft carrying Prime Minister Morarji Desai and his son Kanti Desai took off from the Palam airport...
At first glance, the controversy over the quadruped robot displayed at the recent AI summit in Delhi may seem trivial: a university overreaching, an...
Mahasweta Devi was born into a distinguished family settled in Bangladesh when it was a part of undivided India and the British were in power. She was...
The joint statement on the so-called Interim Agreement between India and the United States reads less like a partnership document and more like a...
Delhi Crime Season 3 is a powerful attack on the veiled and disguised techniques adopted in the business of girl trafficking, shedding light on...
As the Budget session of Parliament has got under way, it is arguably time to reflect not merely on governance as an administrative necessity, but as...
It is a kite.., it is a bird.., it is an airplane. ‘What is it?’ is the apt question for the joint statement issued by the governments of the...
The T20 World Cup has already got underway and expectedly the initial twists and turns were there in the contests held so far in keeping with the...
After Budget 2026-27 was presented on a Sunday, government spokespersons, editorial writers, commentators and journalists used the word ‘cautious’...
Can a Malayali be the Chronicler of Kolkata? This rare honour belongs to P Thankappan Nair, originally from Kalady, the birthplace of Adi Sankara....
I first met Shakti Samanta when I was in school. I saw him as a slim, tall, very self-effacing shy young man who would often frequent the Shivaji Park...
They had insisted—almost pleaded—that I visit them, and so, with a touch of reluctance at first, I made my way to that quiet, unhurried village....
Pearle Maaney plays by her own rules. Her interviews are messy, personal, unpredictable and often delightfully funny. She creates moments where...
Prosenjit, the uncrowned emperor of Bengali cinema for more than three decades, has finally been recognised for his rich and long-standing...
“It’s tough when your body finally gives up, but that is the life of a sportsperson,” said the badminton ace Saina Nehwal, as quoted in the Gulf...
It is no secret that Professor Arvind Panagariya is Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s favourite economist. He is the resident friend, philosopher and...
Two hundred million years ago, the supercontinent Pangaea began to crack. The process was slow, almost invisible at first, but once it started, it...
Recently, yet again, all eyes turned to the Kerala Congress. The state was in the throes of suspense for days together over the question - Will KC (M)...
What is a war film? Today, the ‘war film’ genre is complicated by definition, understanding and biases that back it. “A war film is a movie...
There is a deluge of good news. Retail inflation is at 1.33 per cent. The GDP growth for 2025-26 has been estimated at 7.4 per cent. I think we must...
As Mathrubhumi Publishers release the Malayalam edition of my newest book, The Sage Who Reimagined Hinduism, a few days after the Vice-President of...
A new year and with it comes fresh aspirations, greater efforts from the sports persons and perhaps enhanced progress as we look ahead to the sports...
Two hundred years after the Monroe Doctrine was declared by the 5th President of the United States, and despite the widespread doubt about its power...
Do not let his plain looks and grounded persona in which sometimes, he lets himself become invisible among a crowd of filmmakers deceive you. Dr....
What is your enduring memory of the year, 2025? What is the word that will capture that memory? What is the word that impacted most people in India? ...
As Kerala marks the 70th year of formation, the state is bracing for an Assembly election that promises to be among the most bitterly contested in its...
Gulzar's beautiful film Mausam (loosely based on A.J. Cronin's The Judas Tree) comes closest to portraying the prostitute as the no-nonsense...
This is the season of holidays and selfies. Friends send photos from Varkala with the sea behind them, or Munnar wrapped in mist. Look closer. The...
This month, I find myself speaking at two literary festivals in Kerala – at the Kerala LitFest on Kozhikode Beach and then at the Mathrubhumi...
We are a country of Big Data. An estimated 99% of adults have an Aadhaar card, which means 138 crores of people (1380 million) have a...
At the doorsteps of 2026! What better time than now to look back at the old year fading away and the impact it had on Indian sports. Yes, there were...
2025 reaffirmed Malayalam cinema’s faith in restraint. The year’s most compelling performances didn’t announce themselves; they unfolded slowly,...
In Greek mythology, Cassandra, daughter of the King of Troy, was granted the gift of prophecy by Apollo. After rejecting his advances, she was cursed...
Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on January 30, 1948. The RSS vehemently denied that its ideology and propaganda motivated the assassin. The RSS...
“Censorship, legal and extra-legal, is a serious inroad on freedom of expression. Censorship is highly subjective and essentially mindless. The main...
The recent show of the Indians in the men’s FIH Junior world hockey world cup with a bronze medal to show after a gap of nine years, is enough...
The new book, 'Beyond Cynicism: Kerala 2.0', is not just another policy compendium or bureaucratic memoir. It is a bold, clear-eyed and deeply...
History is like the commons. Any one can enter the commons and write or re-write history — until the myths are blown by subsequent research and...
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