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The only landmark of Venmony, a quaint village on the banks of the Achankovil river near Chengannur in Alappuzha district, has long been the...
November 4, 1977. An Indian Air Force special aircraft carrying Prime Minister Morarji Desai and his son Kanti Desai took off from the Palam airport...
Can a Malayali be the Chronicler of Kolkata? This rare honour belongs to P Thankappan Nair, originally from Kalady, the birthplace of Adi Sankara....
Recently, yet again, all eyes turned to the Kerala Congress. The state was in the throes of suspense for days together over the question - Will KC (M)...
As Kerala marks the 70th year of formation, the state is bracing for an Assembly election that promises to be among the most bitterly contested in its...
Three years ago, in this very column titled “Tharoor for 2026”, this writer had asked: “Who will win the cup in the contest between Shashi...
Who was the most globally recognised Malayali of the 20th century? There could be many contenders. But after reading Narayani Basu’s magisterial...
“You seem to know precious little about physics,” remarked CV Raman — the celebrated physicist and Nobel laureate, equally notorious for his...
It was a brilliant piece on the American online portal, Substack, written by Maisa on the stunning recent heist at the famed Louvre Museum of Paris...
The bitter boardroom battle raging within the Tatas, India’s oldest and largest business empire, has rocked the global corporate world....
TJS George, who left us the other day, was perhaps the last of the great journalists from Kerala born before Independence who went on to make an...
Captain Suryakumar Yadav’s majestic sixer that sealed India’s emphatic victory over Pakistan in the Asia Cup match on September 14 was a stroke of...
It is absurd to question the right of the Left Democratic Front (LDF) to hold the proposed Global Ayyappa Sangamam (GAS), if it is genuinely...
Back in April, this column mourned the untimely loss of Prof. Ranjit Nair, the second eminent physicist from Kerala to pass away within five years...
What could be more contemptuous of the judiciary than smuggling back into force an archaic, undemocratic colonial law already frozen by the Supreme...
Certainly, Adoor Gopalakrishnan was terribly wrong. It isn't proper to call his views "politically incorrect" because, in today’s discourse, the...
When Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi led India in the pre-Independence era—or when his son, Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, captained the team to memorable highs...
Which city is the world’s largest producer of blood bags? Which city manufactures the world’s most affordable artificial heart valve? The...
It is rare for a single individual to trigger fundamental or systemic changes, especially one without extraordinary authority, vast resources, or...
Is the UDF’s impressive win in the Nilambur by-poll a trailer for the 2026 assembly polls? Has it sealed the LDF’s chances of a consecutive third...
"What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?” (Beyond A Boundary, CLR James,1963). In 1968, South Africa refused to play against England...
There was no hint of war when our small group of friends decided to plan a five-day trip to Azerbaijan in February. One of the first Soviet Republics...
The recent capsizing of a cargo ship, MSC ELSA 3, that sailed from Vizhinjam on May 24 off the Kochi coast in the Arabian Sea and the resulting...
The life and political career of Marian Alexander Baby (71), the new General Secretary of the CPI(M), closely mirrors most of his predecessors who...