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Opinion | 4 Leaders In Congress Are Vying For One Job - And None Is Ready To Step Aside

16.03.2026 20

NDTV

Anand Kochukudy

BJP’s Kerala conundrum—courting Christians isn’t working out

With the Left aggressively chipping away at the Hindu votes, it might be in the BJP’s short-term interest to consolidate its base before casting its...

26.01.2026 30

ThePrint

Anand Kochukudy

Why Pinarayi Vijayan is going soft on an Ezhava leader’s anti-Muslim hate speech

Pinarayi Vijayan once called Vellappally Natesan, the general secretary of SNDP Yogam, Kerala’s Pravin Togadia. Now he is giving his hate speech a...

08.01.2026 20

ThePrint

Anand Kochukudy

Kerala BJP losing favour with Church. Sangh not on board with Christian outreach

Two bishops in Kerala said that the BJP is running with the hares in the state and hunting with the hounds in Chhattisgarh.

13.08.2025 8

ThePrint

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Opinion | Bihar Poll Run-Up: Is Nitish Kumar King, Kingmaker, Or Just Clinging On?

03.07.2025 9

NDTV

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Nilambur isn’t Kerala. UDF must look beyond Muslim votes to win 2026 polls

Congress-led UDF seems to be taking the wrong lessons from the Nilambur bypoll. The ruling CPI-M is leveraging even the loss to build its narrative...

28.06.2025 10

ThePrint

Anand Kochukudy

Opinion | How Fringe Elements - And A Bypoll - Have Upended Kerala's Politics

22.06.2025 20

NDTV

Anand Kochukudy

A Kerala bellwether is voting. Why CM Pinarayi Vijayan has staked all in Nilambur

The 19 June bypoll in Kerala’s Nilambur is a highly unpredictable contest. The UDF’s Aryadan Shoukath faces tough competition from LDF’s M...

18.06.2025 10

ThePrint

Anand Kochukudy

Opinion | How Op Sindoor Has Laid Bare The Ideological Battle Brewing In Congress

29.05.2025 10

NDTV

Anand Kochukudy

Shashi Tharoor is hot property for everyone but Rahul Gandhi

Shashi Tharoor’s equation with Kerala BJP president Rajeev Chandrasekhar is a strained one. He also isn’t known for taking personal barbs at his...

23.05.2025 7

ThePrint

Anand Kochukudy

Opinion | BP Yatnal: The Curious Case Of A BJP MLA Who Was Expelled Thrice

29.04.2025 9

NDTV

Anand Kochukudy

The Kerala Consensus is breaking. Is L2: Empuraan row the new way now?

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan made a real political statement when he watched Empuraan with his family, despite the film taking potshots at the Left...

18.04.2025 20

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Opinion | Alliance Calling: AIADMK-BJP May Have Finally Learnt A Hard Lesson

03.04.2025 20

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Opinion | Can A 'Technocrat' Fix All That's Wrong With BJP In Kerala?

26.03.2025 10

NDTV

Anand Kochukudy

Opinion: The Trouble With Rahul Gandhi, Hunting For ‘Saboteurs’ In Gujarat & Too Woke For Maha Kumbh

23.03.2025 20

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Anand Kochukudy

Opinion | Congress's Hooda-Shaped Problem In Haryana Is Growing

19.03.2025 10

NDTV

Anand Kochukudy

Why Kerala is at peace with Hindi. It’s not like Tamil Nadu

Even after the spate of anti-Hindi agitations of the 1960s and 1970s in neighbouring Tamil Nadu, Kerala was open to the prospect of Hindi becoming the...

19.03.2025 20

ThePrint

Anand Kochukudy

Opinion: Rohit Sharma Comes Full Circle With 2025 Champion’s Trophy. He Has Too Much Fight To Give Up Just Yet

16.03.2025 9

ABP Live

Anand Kochukudy

Opinion | What's Making Once-Indifferent Kerala Finally Embrace Cricket?

12.03.2025 10

NDTV

Anand Kochukudy

Kerala Congress is now left of Left. And confused

Congress seems to be mirroring the old Left in Kerala – taking impulsively negative positions on issues as the CPI-M would do in the past.

10.03.2025 20

ThePrint

Anand Kochukudy

Kerala has an education crisis. Student migration has doubled since 2020

A supplement dedicated to the Invest Kerala Summit had to share space with a half-page ‘Study Abroad’ advertisement—a fair depiction of the...

06.03.2025 20

ThePrint

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Where does Shashi Tharoor fit in Kerala Congress? His timing is always off

At 68, Shashi Tharoor may not be too old to bide his time. But it seems unlikely that he would be able to contest for the Lok Sabha from...

25.02.2025 10

ThePrint

Anand Kochukudy

Kottayam torture isn’t unique. It’s systemic, and Red Fort campuses make it worse

Perhaps it is time for a campaign akin to the #MeToo movement to encourage more students to speak out against these ghastly practices across Kerala.

14.02.2025 10

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Anand Kochukudy

Kerala’s forests have too many animals. It’s coming at a cost for humans

Kerala often looks up to Scandinavian countries as model welfare states, but it ignores that in countries like Norway and Sweden wildlife is treated...

12.02.2025 20

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Anand Kochukudy

Pinarayi Vijayan’s double-speak on women’s security needs to be called out

CPI(M) councillor Kala Raju’s humiliation can’t be seen as an isolated case. The party promotes aggression and violence from the grassroots level,...

27.01.2025 20

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Kerala Muslim groups are auditing others on Islamophobia. It isn’t helping

The Jamaat-e-Islami and other outfits that campaign against the stoking of Islamophobia in Kerala must first look within before conveniently laying...

23.01.2025 20

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Anand Kochukudy

NM Vijayan suicide note reveals sorry state of Kerala Congress–bad loans, cash-for-job scams

The December 2024 deaths of Wayanad District Congress Committee treasurer NM Vijayan and his son Jijesh shook Kerala. The contents of Vijayan’s...

15.01.2025 10

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Anand Kochukudy

Did media & Left stoke Islamophobia in MEC 7 fitness controversy? Facts say otherwise

Samastha’s AP faction is among the most orthodox Muslim outfits in Kerala. Its primary objection to MEC 7 is the mingling of genders and the...

10.01.2025 6

ThePrint

Anand Kochukudy

Ramesh Chennithala is getting a Nair rebranding. Kerala Congress targets Hindu votes

The Nair Service Society in Kerala welcomed Ramesh Chennithala like he was the prodigal son. The political situation in Kerala is also in favour of...

07.01.2025 20

ThePrint

Anand Kochukudy

CPI-M is damaging Kerala with its petty politics. God’s own country to ‘mini-Pakistan’

For several elections now, the Kerala CPI-M has refused to accept election defeats. Its general response is that the BJP transferred votes to the...

02.01.2025 8

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Anand Kochukudy

MT Vasudevan Nair’s passing is a reminder that ‘death is a clown with no sense of timing’

MT’s last public speech earlier this year, attacking the personality cult of Pinarayi Vijayan, had Kerala’s ruling Marxists scampering for cover.

27.12.2024 10

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