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Beyond the Birthday celebrations; What Amma awakens in those who meet her

Beyond the Birthday celebrations; What Amma awakens in those who meet her

Mata Amritanandamayi celebrated her 73rd birthday in Amritapuri (Vallikavu) on 26 and 27 September, felicitated by lakhs of devotees and well-wishers,...

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Shashi Tharoor

Are we promoting the film or the actor?

Are we promoting the film or the actor?

Are actors promoting films, or are films increasingly becoming vehicles for promoting the actor’s public persona? Promotional interviews were once...

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Neelima Menon

OPINIONIndia’s electoral rolls need an independent audit

OPINIONIndia’s electoral rolls need an independent audit

What is so deeply unsettling about the latest controversy surrounding the Election Commission of India is not merely that the Commission is under...

26.09.2026 30

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Harikrishnan S

OPINIONFrom crowd faces to stardom - The invisible lives of film ‘Extras’

OPINIONFrom crowd faces to stardom - The invisible lives of film ‘Extras’

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...

26.09.2026 10

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Shoma A. Chatterji

OPINIONWho paid for the ride? The bigger question Kerala’s politicians must answer

OPINIONWho paid for the ride? The bigger question Kerala’s politicians must answer

Kerala has once again stumbled into an argument about political morality by beginning with the wrong question, “Who paid for the ride?” V.D....

24.09.2026 10

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Harikrishnan S

Aichi-Nagoya Games: A bagful of medals is India’s expectation

Aichi-Nagoya Games: A bagful of medals is India’s expectation

Hopes, ambitions, aspirations, and dreams soar as the ultimate test gets underway in Aichi-Nagoya! The 2026 Asian Games in Japan have officially...

22.09.2026 10

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Sr Suryanarayan

A roadmap for reimagining Kerala

A roadmap for reimagining Kerala

Few could have borne the indescribable tragedies Mathai Mammen and his wife, Anna, endured. What could be more painful than losing two daughters, four...

21.09.2026 10

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Mg Radhakrishnan

OPINIONFive short blasts and a very long silence: What rules of the sea actually say

Every ship on the open ocean operates under the same basic traffic code, formally known as the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at...

19.09.2026 30

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Commodore Johnson Odakkal

More than Ink: What Tattoos say about characters in Indian films

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...

19.09.2026 30

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Shoma A Chatterji

AI debate reaches fever pitch, but the world remains unprepared

The global debate over artificial intelligence has hit a fever pitch. Apocalyptic warnings fill front pages one day, dismissals of the whole thing as...

17.09.2026 10

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Hari Kumar

Heal in India: A global health destination rises

India’s profile as a medical tourism destination has risen steadily in recent years, despite the setback caused by COVID-19, during which...

15.09.2026 10

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Krishnakumar

OPINIONBeyond Degrees: Reimagining higher education in Kerala – Part II

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...

15.09.2026 40

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Shashi Tharoor

OPINIONEnglish, confidence and the unwritten rules for women in Kerala

There is something wonderfully revealing about the latest little controversy involving Urvashi, Supriya Menon and the apparently unforgivable crime of...

15.09.2026 30

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Harikrishnan S

The still photographer as a character in Indian films

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...

12.09.2026 20

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Shoma Chatterji

OPINIONThe smoke and the ₹3.28 crore question

There is something almost exquisitely sardonic about the indignation with which the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has greeted the latest...

11.09.2026 30

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Harikrishnan S

The day France was asked to make its women invisible

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...

10.09.2026 40

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Harikrishnan S

Pakistan’s growing naval fleet, but who is protecting its citizens at sea?

There are two ways to evaluate what a decade of naval investment has bought a country, and Pakistan's own institutional messaging consistently...

08.09.2026 10

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Commodore Johnson Odakkal

India’s growth surge: From economic resilience to global trade power

Even as conflicts in West Asia, volatile energy prices, rising tariffs, a weakening rupee and mounting climate pressures rattle economies worldwide,...

08.09.2026 10

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Krishnakumar

Messi signs off and leaves the world of football so much the poorer

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...

08.09.2026 30

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Sr Suryanarayan

Samoothiri’s Malabar: A secular utopia of Hindu-Muslim harmony

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...

07.09.2026 40

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Mg Radhakrishnan

From strict disciplinarians to system reformers; How teachers have evolved in Indian Cinema

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...

05.09.2026 20

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Shoma Chatterji

From Bollywood to South, films caught in plagiarism controversies

“Plagiarism” is a term generally used in association with literature of all kinds – fiction, non-fiction, essays, even Ph.D. Thesis. But it also...

09.08.2026 40

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Shoma A Chatterji

OPINIONHow a generation shook the cult of invincibility

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....

08.08.2026 50

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Harikrishnan S

OPINIONStatutory patriotism and the Right to Silence

The Prevention of Insults to National Honour (Amendment) Bill, 2026, passed by Parliament on July 30, marks a watershed moment in India's...

03.08.2026 30

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Faisal Ck

OPINIONThe rise of politics beyond political parties

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...

02.08.2026 50

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P Chidambaram

The Dawn in Jantar Mantar

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,...

01.08.2026 40

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Mg Radhakrishnan

India's strength is its many languages, not just one

To speak of the linguistic question in India today is to risk immediate mischaracterization. Let me state my position without ambiguity: I have...

01.08.2026 50

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Shashi Tharoor

OPINIONThe curious case of 'The Gaumutra expert'

There is something peculiarly revealing about the latest controversy over the now-infamous "gaumutra expert." Member of Parliament from...

31.07.2026 50

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Harikrishnan S

OPINIONThe slow death of scientific temper

Priyanka Gandhi's remark in Parliament, referring to a member of the government's examination reform panel as a "gomutra expert,"...

29.07.2026 50

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Harikrishnan S

The Spanish system had the final say

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...

28.07.2026 40

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Sr Suryanarayan