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Kundalassery and Vazhakkulam are two obscure villages in interior Kerala. Forget most of us, even those from these places may not know of their...
Although the next assembly election is more than a year away, Congress in Kerala is being rocked from the inside over who will be its next Chief...
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s hard-hitting and enlightening speech at Sivagiri Mutt cautioning against the appropriation of Sree Narayana Guru...
A god who plays chess? Yes, there is one. Where else, besides Tamil Nadu, the country’s chess capital, can this be? Lord Shiva, the presiding deity...
Communal passions and violence appear to be engulfing North India once again, echoing the days of the Ram Janmabhoomi movement and Babri Masjid’s...
No contemporary artist has challenged India's social, political, and cultural orthodoxy as profoundly as the eminent musician, author, and activist...
What is common to Donald Trump, Narendra Modi and Pinarayi Vijayan? The answers may vary depending on one's perspective. Yet, there could be...
Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud, the fiftieth Chief Justice of India (CJI), who retires today on November 10 after precisely two years in the...
In the past month, those following Kerala's media could be forgiven for believing that the only issue of importance in the world is the tragic...
While we were post graduate students at the Kerala University’s Department of Economics in Karyavattom in the late 1970s, the Centre for...
Canakkale, the northwestern Turkish city on the Dardanelles straits, is presumed to hold the historic city of Troy that witnessed the legendary...
An enlarged and beautifully framed cartoon adorns the wall in Sitaram Yechury’s Delhi home. The cartoon that belonged to the 1990s depicts CPI(M)’s...
It was the cold November of 1980. I had just finished university and accompanied my father on a long tour through many states. Visiting Calcutta...
It is official now. The Union Home Minister Amit Shah was lying through his teeth in the Parliament when he said that Kerala was issued necessary...
Much of the world sees Kerala as a model state with excellent records in multiple fields. Yet, for many Malayalis and their media, Kerala...
It was a monsoon-soaked morning in Thiruvananthapuram on June 22, 1959. Prime Minister Nehru landed at the capital’s airport by a special aircraft...