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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...
A Hindu king for whom Muslims lay down their lives fighting a foreign invader; a Hindu king who insists that his numerically weaker Muslim subjects...
Teachers, in real life, are just normal human beings who come in different colours of humanity. Some has opted to get into this noble profession. Some...
“Plagiarism” is a term generally used in association with literature of all kinds – fiction, non-fiction, essays, even Ph.D. Thesis. But it also...
For the better part of almost a decade and a half, the BJP has operated on an assumption that would have made even Louis XIV blush with embarrassment....
The Prevention of Insults to National Honour (Amendment) Bill, 2026, passed by Parliament on July 30, marks a watershed moment in India's...
The Jantar Mantar agitation started by the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) taught a lesson that was not learned by political parties in 79 years of...
Bliss was it to be alive in that dawn And to be young was pure heaven A faltering government, a floundering opposition ‘Every time it was sung,...
To speak of the linguistic question in India today is to risk immediate mischaracterization. Let me state my position without ambiguity: I have...
There is something peculiarly revealing about the latest controversy over the now-infamous "gaumutra expert." Member of Parliament from...
Priyanka Gandhi's remark in Parliament, referring to a member of the government's examination reform panel as a "gomutra expert,"...
The FIFA World Cup has come and gone. The excitement that had gripped the world has now faded away but what a lasting impression the event made...