How KB Jinan changed the fortune of Aruvacode in Kerala, where poverty had once turned women to sex work
17 December 2009On his 2.5 acre plot of land, a Kerala jewellery shop owner has planted trees featured in the classics of literature
10 December 2009Ambumani Ramadoss shook up TV screens and then vanished. Here’s a look at a politician and a party that miscalculated their future badly.
02 December 2009The heartbreaking story of a Hindu girl and a Muslim boy who fell in love while crossing a mighty river, the war between their parents, and a truce that came too late, as always.
25 November 2009They risk their life for honour—and rewards—at the Jallikattu. Here is what drives them to reach for that bull.
05 November 2009A Muslim village in Malappuram district supplies lotuses to all the major Hindu temples of Kerala
05 November 2009A matrimonial website for transgenders launched in Chennai is getting queries from men in France and Italy
29 October 2009Modi’s communist admirer is contesting a bypoll on a Congress ticket. If anyone understands AP Abdulla Kutty, do write in.
29 October 2009The Lady of Poes Garden has vanished from Chennai to a little known tea garden in the Nilgiris. Tamil politics awaits her return, stars willing.
30 September 2009Disillusioned with the communists, he planted 100,000 mangrove saplings to protect Kerala’s wetlands.
30 September 2009Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground
MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle
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