Repeal of farm laws: A lesson learnt too late

The Modi government's announcement of its intention to repeal the three controversial ..

Pegasus: A verdict for democracy

Rains, Climate Change and Kerala

What Indian Politics does to women

Diaspora Nationalism: The Myth and the Reality

One of the more welcome developments of recent times is the gradual fading away of what has been dubbed “diaspora nationalism” ..

The Australian Who Wanted to be Indian

Some years ago, a fresh-faced young man told me with great glee that he had not only graduated with Honours in History, like me, ..

Of frying Pakoras and thinking out of the box

As an MP, I have found myself dealing daily with the impact of the current pandemic on our universities and the student community. ..

Remembering Roberto Calasso

The death on July 28, at the age of 80, of Roberto Calasso, hailed by Pratap Bhanu Mehta as 'one of the most encyclopaedic, playful, ..

Stan Swamy - A Requiem for Justice | Shashi Tharoor

This weekend came news that a judge of the Bombay High Court had withdrawn his oral remarks praising the late Father Stan Swamy’s ..

Anna and Anupama: The Kerala Conundrum

The world last week witnessed in stunned disbelief a phenomenal struggle in Keralam ..

Antony and Ann: Writing on the wall

The Mullaperiyar Mystery

Two young Malayali stars

A Mother and the Metaphor

Anupama Chandran is not only a mother desperately seeking her child. She is also a metaphor for contemporary Kerala. Anupama would ..

Quarries are forever

It was a remarkable coincidence. On October 7th, the Supreme Court delivered a landmark decision that went largely unnoticed. ..

EMS, CIA and the Spymaster

Communists have always been lampooned for looking for a sinister Yankee hand in everything murky. They smell a CIA rat in assassinations ..

Silencing Siddique Kappan

'Siddique Kappan wrote about many of the things I write about: India's majoritarian turn and discrimination against Muslims ..

Today let’s remember Gandhi and Mary too!

This day as the world celebrates Gandhiji’s 152nd birthday, marks yet another milestone too. The centenary of the country’s ..

It’s Talent Jihad in Kerala

It is surprising how Udaya’s Kunchacko dared to cast a youngster who was just one film old, as the hero in his new movie Visappinte ..

Saints, Sultans and Narco Jihad

March 2019. Pope Francis sets out on his apostolic journey to Morocco, the north African nation where Sunnis formed 99% of the population ..

Three Super Survivors

Who could be called the master survivors in Kerala's contemporary politics? Three names top my list. The first place goes posthumously ..

AI : The End Of an Era

Fridays were judgment days for state correspondents at the India Today magazine. The top jury at the Delhi desk would decide every ..

Malabar Rebellion: When will we grow up?

Critics call it the Mappila Revolt. Historians refer to it as the Malabar Rebellion. For unabashed admirers, it was the Great Malabar ..

Two Fathimas, Taliban and Muslim League

Nimisha Fathima and her husband were among 21 persons who had left Kerala five years ago for Afghanistan to join the terrorist ISIS ..

Kerala Sports : Where have our women gone?

Kizhakkambalam refuses to leave the headlines. Years ago, Rajan Paul, a brilliant mechanical engineer, paralysed from neck downwards, ..

The Malayali Miyawaki

He was aged and ailing. Yet, never imagined Prof. Akira Miyawaki, (93), the legendary Japanese environmentalist, would leave his beloved ..

Pinarayi and the `Priests’ Curse'

Exactly a month before Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and the Left Democratic Front (LDF) created history by returning to power for ..