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The most striking image from the aftermath of the Enforcement Directorate search connected to Pinarayi Vijayan’s daughter, Veena Thaikkandiyil, was...
What unfolded in Thiruvananthapuram on the May 27 was not the conduct of a political movement confident in its innocence. It was the behaviour of a...
During a recent family vlog, YouTuber Diya Krishna aka Ozy Talkies addressed a question from subscribers about why she calls her in-laws “aunty”...
“It’s just all accumulating together. We have frayed relations with the U.S. over tariffs, we are on the wrong side of the AI mania, we are a big...
The most revealing part of the Left's crushing defeat in Kerala has not been the defeat itself. Elections are lost all the time, governments...
Pratidwandi (The Adversary) is said to be the first among the three city-centered films Satyajit Ray made. This celluloid journey began in 1970 to be...
The IPL feast is reaching the playoff stage and, indeed, it has been exciting all the way as the ten teams did their bit to earn a slot in this final...
Donald Trump now claims that he paused another attack on Iran after Gulf leaders urged him to step back and give diplomacy another chance. One almost...
The sudden rise of the 'Cockroach Janta Party' (CJP) may look like a meme, a joke, or merely another fleeting internet phenomenon. But...
There was a time when India spoke the language of strategic autonomy with a certain confidence. One did not have to agree with every foreign policy...
The debate over the Great Nicobar project has quickly turned into a familiar shouting match. It was re-ignited a few days ago when Rahul Gandhi...
I write these words in Kochi, a city whose very history is intertwined with the global spice trade. For over two millennia, this coastline has...
Patriot (directed and written by Mahesh Narayanan) arrives at a moment when both Mammootty and Mohanlal stand magnificently at the peak of their...
The temptation, when a country like the United Arab Emirates walks out of Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), is to read it as...
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) under Mr Narendra Modi is unlike any other party in India — past or present. Its goal is not to win elections as...
There is a temptation to dismiss United States President Donald Trump as an aberration, a crude interruption in an otherwise continuous arc of...
“The difference between an admirer and a follower still remains, no matter where you are. The admirer never makes any true sacrifices. He always...
There is a certain pattern to the way this crisis (Iran-US) has unfolded, and it is hard to ignore once you see it. A ceasefire is announced with some...
There is a particular kind of analysis that thrives in moments like this. An analysis that stitches together travel schedules, silences,...
The cricket fever continues thanks to the IPL which is warming up to exciting stages ahead. In this midst to add further cheers to sports fans have...
The government and the BJP tried to weave a narrative around the Constitution (131st) Amendment Bill, 2026. The narrative was deeply flawed: it was...
There is a peculiar comfort in numbers. They arrive with an air of finality, stripped of emotion, seemingly untouched by ideology. In public policy,...
India is once again at one of those quiet turning points that do not announce themselves with drama, but with data. The map doing the rounds is not...
In the vast, often self-indulgent landscape of contemporary poetry, Badri Raina’s “Stout and Tender” arrives like a sharp intake of breath on a...
United States President Donald Trump has said and done countless stupid things in public. Few, however, match the spectacular idiocy of ordering the...
It would be wrong for India to say it is surprised that Pakistan has taken the lead in mediation of a ceasefire between the United States and Iran....
The yawning gap between voting and the declaration of results in the recent Kerala Assembly election has created a period of high tension and gripping...
The two Houses of Parliament were adjourned on April 2, 2026 after completion of the financial business of the Budget session. It was the right time...
Donald Trump is once again doing what he does best. He is trying to market confusion as statesmanship, improvisation as strategy, and a pause in...
By definition, a ‘cult’ film, commonly referred to as a cult classic, is a film that has acquired a cult following with a specific group of fans....
The ceasefire between the US, Israel, and Iran may have stopped the bombs for now -- but do not celebrate too early. Only these three countries will...
Donald Trump has a gift for taking an already dangerous situation and making it utterly morally vulgar. What should have been handled with discipline,...
Wars are among the oldest constants in human history. Yet each new conflict reopens an old and unsettling question: why does humanity continue to...
Cricket and more cricket. More the merrier as they say! The T20 World Cup had ended not long ago and soon thereafter came in another T20 fixture__the...
Southern cinema is flooded with the focus on religious rituals and festivals but Hindi cinema is not as much replete with films revolving around...
I do not know which planets will confluence or which planet will be retrograde but, looking at the political scene in India, I can say ‘we live in...
India's falling rupee is not an illusion. Nor is it some harmless technical fluctuation to be explained away by the same regime that once treated...