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What is common to Donald Trump, Narendra Modi and Pinarayi Vijayan? The answers may vary depending on one's perspective. Yet, there could be unanimity...
Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud, the fiftieth Chief Justice of India (CJI), who retires today on November 10 after precisely two years in the office,...
In the past month, those following Kerala's media could be forgiven for believing that the only issue of importance in the world is the tragic suicide...
While we were post graduate students at the Kerala University’s Department of Economics in Karyavattom in the late 1970s, the Centre for Development...
The puny Peruvamba village near Chittoor in Palakkad district has earned a unique place in history. It is arguably the country’s only panchayat with...
Canakkale, the northwestern Turkish city on the Dardanelles straits, is presumed to hold the historic city of Troy that witnessed the legendary Trojan...
An enlarged and beautifully framed cartoon adorns the wall in Sitaram Yechury’s Delhi home. The cartoon that belonged to the 1990s depicts...
“History repeats itself, first as tragedy and then as farce” is one of Marx’s most quoted lines. In some ways, Chief Minister Pinarayi...
Well begun is half done. This saying, credited to the Greek philosopher Aristotle, means that starting a project well makes it easier to complete....
It was the cold November of 1980. I had just finished university and accompanied my father on a long tour through many states. Visiting Calcutta (the...
It is official now. The Union Home Minister Amit Shah was lying through his teeth in the Parliament when he said that Kerala was issued necessary...
Much of the world sees Kerala as a model state with excellent records in multiple fields. Yet, for many Malayalis and their media, Kerala symbolises...
It was a monsoon-soaked morning in Thiruvananthapuram on June 22, 1959. Prime Minister Nehru landed at the capital’s airport by a special aircraft...
Author and former diplomat TP Sreenivasan was publicly slapped when he tried to reform Kerala's education sector in his capacity as the vice chairman...
Will the choice of the next BJP President after the present incumbent, JP Nadda’s term gets over by June end, open a new battlefront between Prime...
Suresh Gopi’s huge win from Thrissur Lok Sabha seat was one of the most stunning events in not just Kerala’s but India’s political history....
Perhaps I shall meet with troubles and many disappointments, but I have made up my mind to be polite and sincere to everyone; more cannot be asked of...
As the recent pre-monsoon rains following the unprecedentedly sweltering summer flooded Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram, Dr Muralee Thummarukudy, the...
T here are occasions when people commit blunder after blunder. This happens not just to individuals but also to organisations or governments. Those...
We all know, and many revere, Hanuman, the divine vanara and devoted companion of Sri Ram. Never would we have imagined the two cosmic comrades be...
Immediately after the din over the bitterly fought elections drew to a close, Kerala’s mainstream and social media caught on to a new controversy....
EP is an honourable man, says the CPM at least for now. But its near-exoneration of EP Jayarajan, the party’s Central Committee member and Left...
It is said that all is fair in love and war. It means people are said to be not bound by standard rules of behaviour when they are in love or war....
Despite its various challenges, the BJP-led National Development Alliance (NDA) will again be in power after the upcoming elections, with an increased...
Will there be at least one Communist party in India qualified to be recognised as a national party when the country's Communist movement enters its...
It is official now. The Electoral Bond (EB) scheme, struck down as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of India, is the single biggest scam...
Looking at Congress list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, I felt immensely proud to be a Malayali. But, as an Indian, it also fills...
The mob-lynching of the 20-year-old student, JS Siddharth, in the hostel of the College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences in Pookode, Wayanad, has...
W ith the ongoing investigation into the “black sands diaries”, the infamous saga of Kerala’s beach sands that contain highly explosive...
Finance Minister KN Balagopal’s mention in his fourth budget speech that the state government will explore opportunities for establishing private...
M ost of us depend on the “location services” on our smartphones to find a way to our destinations, anywhere on earth or at any time around the...
“ Godi Media” (the media sitting on the lap) is a hard-hitting term coined by eminent journalist Ravish Kumar as an idiomatic equivalent of what's...
As a Malayali, I felt proud of the Malayalam media - to which I, too, belong - despite my differences over many aspects of how it conducts itself....
I Accuse…!". Thus screamed history's most celebrated and scathing open letter, penned by a famed writer to an authoritarian state. The writer was...
Joseph Lelyveld (86), the eminent American journalist who passed away recently, was an avid India watcher with an abiding interest in Gandhi and a...
When dissenting voices and rectifying forces across political parties appear to be facing extinction, Vylappulli Mama Sudheeran stands in glorious...
Not many government programs have been proven so counter-productive. Nava Kerala Sadas (NKS) was launched to celebrate the LDF government’s second...
Umpteen are incidents of the state using force to repress opposition in Kerala as everywhere else. The pre-independence period witnessed the most...
The Post Graduate Department of Economics at Kerala University's Kariavattom campus boasted a faculty of distinguished scholars from its inception in...