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There is a peculiar kind of dishonesty that creeps into discussions on war, especially when the facts are uncomfortable. It dresses itself up as...
The real winner of the 2026 Kerala election is democracy itself. For weeks, the election was projected as a neck-and-neck battle. Pre-poll surveys,...
It begins, as these things increasingly do, with something that sounds harmless. A Union Minister says he keeps an onion in his pocket to beat a...
Human endeavours as they say can have no limits. What seems impossible once are easily attained or crossed over time and now the appropriate question...
The U.S.-Israel war against Iran is not a distant war. It is in West Asia neighbouring the Indian sub-continent. Millions of Indians live and work in...
The patriarchal mindset of men and even women, has proved to be one of the main obstacles in the representation of women in films mainly directed by...
Kerala's 2026 assembly election is being interpreted through a familiar lens -- high turnout must mean anti-incumbency. At 79.63%, the state has...
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...
Kerala’s all-important Assembly election is barely days away. The stakes are high for all three political fronts, though to varying degrees. For the...
There is a particular kind of instability that does not announce itself with declarations of war but rather advances in increments; each actor...
India, at her noblest, has always been a land of conversation. Our intellectual inheritance was not forged in silence but in dialogue. The sages of...
From Mahabharata to The Godfather, filmmakers have repeatedly drawn on these worlds to shape stories of power, loyalty, and fate. This piece looks at...
This article has been motivated by classic filmmaker Wim Wenders’ recent declaration at the Berlinale International Film Festival earlier this year...
Sports in general have seen growth and rising interest over the years but if there is one discipline that has witnessed an exponential jump, then it...
The conversation around Iran is rarely an honest one. It is curated, edited, and presented in fragments that serve a larger narrative. What is offered...
Indian cinema, by and large, tries to avoid films revolving around or even touching child sexual abuse and/or incestuous abuse of children by older...
There are moments in geopolitics when abstractions collapse into hard reality, and right now we are witnessing one of them. For years, India has...
History has a habit of repeating itself, not in identical form but in familiar patterns. The United States learned one of its most painful strategic...
My first question is, why is the film titled The Kerala Story 2 Goes Beyond? It is a misguiding and wrong title for a film in which of the three...
The consequences of the ill-conceived war against Iran that was started by the United States and Israel on February 28 are worldwide and far reaching....
There are few joys in public life as deeply personal as watching a young talent you have known since boyhood rise to fulfil the promise you sensed in...
It was a Sunday that will be long remembered by sports fans in the country for two reasons. One for the brave run of badminton star Lakshya Sen in the...
Another war has broken out. Israel is the provocateur. The United States is the executioner. Israel has convinced President Donald Trump that Iran...
Rape in cinema has certain specific functions. One of these is to arouse the male in the audience sexually. Another is to use, to a certain extent,...
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