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Adoor Gopalakrishnan: The paths he choseSubscriber Only
December 18, 2022 06:30 IST
Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s debut feature, Swayamvaram, turns 50. This is the story of his journey through change.
Sun, Dec 18, 2022
Team Melli and the Socrates legacySubscriber Only
November 27, 2022 18:04 IST
Amrith Lal writes: The Iranian football team’s show of defiance in Doha is likely to have major consequences, considering the nature of the authoritarian regime in Tehran.
Sun, Nov 27, 2022
Using language nationalism in larger federal project: DMK’s ‘Dravidian model’ of governanceSubscriber Only
October 22, 2022 04:15 IST
The DMK’s marshalling of the old Tamil subnationalist impulse to project a new 'Dravidian model' of governance frames a wider federal political experiment with clear backward and forward linkages
Sat, Oct 22, 2022
As Stalin warns Centre, recalling the anti-Hindi agitations in the past in Tamil NaduSubscriber Only
October 12, 2022 11:39 IST
The rise of the BJP post 2014 has raised the spectre of a Hindi-Hindu-Hindutva India, and triggered subnationalist counter-narratives in all the Southern states
Thu, Oct 13, 2022
How KCR’s national pitch differs from Stalin’sSubscriber Only
October 07, 2022 03:59 IST
The fact is that KCR, unlike the DMK in Tamil Nadu or the Left in Kerala, has no story to tell. The TRS also has no access to the political legacies of the erstwhile Andhra Pradesh – the national movement, peasant struggles – which could have provided the party with the cultural resources to battle Hindutva
Fri, Oct 07, 2022
The Muslim political predicamentSubscriber Only
September 25, 2022 19:24 IST
From SY Quraishi's piece on the meet between RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and the intellectuals from the Muslim community to Pratap Bhanu Mehta's article on the Leicester violence, here are the top Opinion pieces recommended for you.
Mon, Sep 26, 2022
The downslide in federal relationsSubscriber Only
September 19, 2022 19:50 IST
The ongoing controversy over the Vedanta-Foxconn project as well as the mass defections in Goa seem like a throwback to the 1970s and 80s, when the Congress used to ignore constitutional and institutional propriety to further its political goals.
Mon, Sep 19, 2022
What makes the poetry and politics of Anvar Ali, winner of this year’s Kerala Sahitya Akademi award, so engaging?Subscriber Only
July 30, 2022 19:45 IST
The 56-year-old Malayalam poet is also a sought-after lyricist and has won several awards.
Sun, Jul 31, 2022
How Tamil writer Vaasanthi’s women are tied by a sense of self-respect, a recent translation of her short stories showsSubscriber Only
May 21, 2022 17:51 IST
Ganga’s Choice and Other Stories, a collection of 15 short fiction in Tamil by Vaasanthi, and translated into English by Sukanya Venkataraman and Gomathi Narayanan, is about life seen through the eyes of women
Sat, May 21, 2022
Gramavrikshathile Kuyil is a remarkable ode to Malayalam renaissance poet Kumaran AsanSubscriber Only
April 18, 2022 10:00 IST
Veteran Malayalam director KP Kumaran’s biopic celebrates the life and work of an exceptional poet and social reformer of the last century
Sun, Apr 17, 2022
Why Delhi was the muse for Malayalam writer M Mukundan, this year’s JCB Prize for Literature winnerSubscriber Only
December 05, 2021 06:20 IST
His novel, Delhi: A Soliloquy, is a tribute to his years spent as a flaneur, chronicler in the city
Tue, Jan 04, 2022
Explained: Life, work and legend of Adi Shankara, Advaita master, philosopher nonpareilSubscriber Only
November 06, 2021 04:14 IST
The Adi Shankara story is a remarkable saga of travel and adventure, philosophical inquiry, conflicts in faith, exegesis, establishment of lineage, organisation and mobilisation, etc.
Sat, Nov 06, 2021
Who is Kamumma and why Ambai centres her new short-story collection around urban womenSubscriber Only
July 18, 2021 06:25 IST
'A Red-necked Green Bird' turns the page on social cliches and individual histories
Sun, Jul 18, 2021
What KK Shailaja’s exclusion says about Kerala CPMSubscriber Only
May 20, 2021 03:35 IST
KK Shailaja’s removal from Pinarayi Vijayan ministry shows CPM and its supporters may be reading Kerala verdict differently
Thu, May 20, 2021
Amid poll heat and dust, green shoots emerge in Kerala’s politicsSubscriber Only
April 06, 2021 00:40 IST
This green strand is a characteristic of a new Left in Kerala. A host of sitting legislators and candidates have been involved in projecting a green vision as part of their politics.
Tue, Apr 06, 2021
In Kerala’s din, a mother seeking justice, a wife calling for peaceSubscriber Only
April 05, 2021 04:21 IST
Vadakara has been a stronghold of socialists for decades, having elected stalwarts like K B Menon to Parliament.
Mon, Apr 05, 2021
The star cast in Tamil Nadu politics is large, but there are no superstars this timeSubscriber Only
January 29, 2021 03:00 IST
Until recently, and for near five decades, politics in Tamil Nadu has revolved around three charismatic figures, who claimed the legacy of the Dravidian movement: DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi defined one pole of state politics while MGR and Jayalalithaa occupied the other end.
Fri, Jan 29, 2021
Explained: As Jallikattu begins, recalling the cultural argument for an ancient traditionSubscriber Only
January 15, 2021 12:52 IST
Jallikattu is a bull-taming sport that has traditionally been part of the festival of Pongal. However, the practice has long been contested, with animal rights groups and the courts concerned over issues of cruelty to animals and the bloody and dangerous nature of the sport.
Sat, Jan 16, 2021
How a hate campaign against their work brought Perumal Murugan, S Hareesh to mainstream attentionSubscriber Only
December 06, 2020 06:10 IST
With accolades and international recognition, the Tamil and Malayalam writer, respectively, hope for a more nuanced reading of their work
Sun, Dec 06, 2020
With Assembly polls scheduled next year, Tamil identity politics may find a new release in the stateSubscriber Only
August 16, 2020 03:40 IST
Tamil identity politics, now, is invoked by the Dravidian outfits mainly to mobilise people against national parties and the Centre as well as to paper over social and economic fault lines.
Sun, Aug 16, 2020
The Malabar rebellion is a layered story with multiple strands that defy simplistic narrationsSubscriber Only
July 05, 2020 03:50 IST
Erasing any of these strands or experiences — the anti-colonial impulse, religious content, agrarian moorings, police brutality — would result in an incomplete, lopsided picture of the event with potential for dangerous interpretations in our fraught present.
Sun, Jul 05, 2020
TM Krishna: “Artistes are committing suicide due to a lack of income”Subscriber Only
June 28, 2020 06:20 IST
The Carnatic musician and author on the need for a programme similar to NREGA for the art community to help them tide over economic hardship due to COVID-19
Sat, Jun 27, 2020
Writer and former IPS officer Vibhuti Narain Rai on the anatomy of riotsSubscriber Only
March 08, 2020 10:00 IST
The acclaimed writer in Hindi has witnessed and written about several riots, including Hashimpura massacre, in which 42 Muslims were killed by the police. He says that in all major riots, minorities had one common complaint — that the police had not done what it was supposed to do.
Sun, Mar 08, 2020
P S Krishnan, bureaucrat behind landmark social justice legislation, diesSubscriber Only
November 11, 2019 02:26 IST
Till his last, Krishnan, who died in Delhi Sunday aged 87, remained partial to the depressed classes and worked towards the destruction of the caste order, relentlessly exposing its institutional manifestations.
Mon, Nov 11, 2019
Did a strong sense of morality make Vibhishana the first ‘anti-national’?Subscriber Only
October 27, 2019 06:10 IST
Every regime insists that the praja, or citizens, stand by its regressions from the founding ideals of the republic in the name of nationalism.
Sun, Oct 27, 2019
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