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The Kerala High Court recently struck down a discriminatory provision in the State's excise rules that prohibited women from working in toddy...
Donald Trump has spent much of his political life treating the institutions of the American republic as though they were extensions of his personal...
A film is a composite of concrete, audio-visual images. This sets it in a completely different class from the novel or the play composed of abstract...
Benjamin Netanyahu has spent much of his political life cultivating an image of himself as indispensable to Israel’s survival. He has presented...
What began as a bumpy, ambitious experiment in tax restructuring has become a major fiscal reform for the Modi government. When India launched the...
The highs and lows of cricket fortunes can never be better portrayed than in a T20 fixture. The swings can be so swift that one is left to wonder if...
Nobel-winning economist Amartya Sen famously described Indians as the Argumentative Indian. He used this expression positively to highlight India’s...
For a cashew worker in Kollam, a handloom worker in Kannur or a young employee on a fixed-term contract in Thiruvananthapuram, the debate over...
Since Independence, with the rare exception of the 1975–1977 Emergency, India has seldom faced such a pronounced decline as today in the core...
In Jailer 2, Dileep is a local don who runs a small syndicate in Kerala. A former associate of Varman, he is under pressure to find Varman’s...
Benjamin Netanyahu has spent much of his political career persuading Israelis that he alone stands between them and annihilation. The irony is that...
When the Indian Cabinet instituted the Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) programme on 15 September 1964, it was set up as a bilateral...
Just 40 days after the September 12 meeting between Prime Minister Narendera Modi and China’s President Xi Jinping comes the alarming revealation...
India's steel industry is scripting a new chapter as it plans to grow into a global manufacturing powerhouse while lowering the carbon cost of...
United States President Donald Trump’s decision to waive the “sanctions, restrictions and duties provided for in the Graham Act” comes as a...
There is a remarkably economical way to manufacture a political conspiracy. Take a photograph, preferably one containing a flag, a bearded man, a...
Sporting endeavours can make a fascinating study of a sportsperson's journey. Struggle, hard work, pain, and sacrifice—not to mention ambition...
The political tornado unleashed by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) and taken up by the Opposition, demanding the resignation of Chief Election...
The Payment Revolution India Built From a little-known banking experiment to a platform processing more than 800 million payments a day, UPI has made...
It is a rather unsettling spectacle to watch one of the world's wealthiest countries, armed with sophisticated American weaponry and protected by...
Indian electronics exports have surged on the back of smartphones, as the global electronics industry is reshaped by supply-chain diversification amid...
I had the great honour of travelling to Wayanad recently to present this year’s Padmaprabha Book Award to author Rajasree, and to do so in the land...
The Donald Trump administration’s decision to cut out Indian IT companies from green card processing is an assault on their business model. The U.S....
Looks like a rather peculiar art governs aviation security. A man can apparently acquire a pilot’s licence, secure employment with a major airline,...
India's rapid adoption of artificial intelligence is opening a new route for women into the country's technology-led economy. Concerns about...
A commercial airliner plunges thousands of feet, a wounded captain somehow gets the cockpit door open, passengers apparently fight their way through a...
Aichi-Nagoya has now entered sporting history, and all eyes are now on Doha, where the next Asian Games will unfold in four years' time. For...
What has happened to V. D. Satheeshan, all of a sudden? Wasn't he, for the past five years, the voracious reader, the warrior for democracy, the...
Some coincidences are coincidences; others arrive so punctually that one begins to wonder whether the universe has developed a sense of political...
A film poster is an identity card that introduces you to the makers of the film and the subject – the film. Posters are aimed not only as an...
Something deeply disturbing about the reaction to the flydubai Flight FZ1073 incident has surprisingly little to do with the aircraft itself. The...
Mata Amritanandamayi celebrated her 73rd birthday in Amritapuri (Vallikavu) on 26 and 27 September, felicitated by lakhs of devotees and well-wishers,...
Are actors promoting films, or are films increasingly becoming vehicles for promoting the actor’s public persona? Promotional interviews were once...
What is so deeply unsettling about the latest controversy surrounding the Election Commission of India is not merely that the Commission is under...
Way back in 1994, I happened to watch a documentary film called The Clap Trap 1993) at the MIFF in Mumbai. She was an alumnus of FTII but stories went...
Kerala has once again stumbled into an argument about political morality by beginning with the wrong question, “Who paid for the ride?” V.D....
Hopes, ambitions, aspirations, and dreams soar as the ultimate test gets underway in Aichi-Nagoya! The 2026 Asian Games in Japan have officially...
Few could have borne the indescribable tragedies Mathai Mammen and his wife, Anna, endured. What could be more painful than losing two daughters, four...
Every ship on the open ocean operates under the same basic traffic code, formally known as the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at...
The tattoo on any exposed part of the body, male or female, introduces intrigue in the mind of the average viewer. It can be a design, a name, a...
The global debate over artificial intelligence has hit a fever pitch. Apocalyptic warnings fill front pages one day, dismissals of the whole thing as...
India’s profile as a medical tourism destination has risen steadily in recent years, despite the setback caused by COVID-19, during which...
In my last column, we discussed the vital qualities of education and then reforms that Kerala needs to undertake to make its education ready for the...
There is something wonderfully revealing about the latest little controversy involving Urvashi, Supriya Menon and the apparently unforgivable crime of...
This article has been triggered by two things. The first inspiration is a recent Bengali film called Chhobiwalla and the second is that August 19 is...
There is something almost exquisitely sardonic about the indignation with which the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has greeted the latest...
There are few places in the world more recognisably French than the Eiffel Tower. And few principles are more deeply embedded in the French Republic...
There are two ways to evaluate what a decade of naval investment has bought a country, and Pakistan's own institutional messaging consistently...
Even as conflicts in West Asia, volatile energy prices, rising tariffs, a weakening rupee and mounting climate pressures rattle economies worldwide,...
All good things must come to an end one day. That phrase, in essence, reflects the football genius Lionel Messi’s decision to end his extraordinary...
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