MG Radhakrishnan is a journalist based in Thiruvananthapuram
Shashi Tharoor seeks a fourth-term from Thiruvananthapuram while his formidable challenger Rajeev Chandrasekhar hopes for a sensational debut
19 April 2024We ignored the warnings of both history and geography
23 August 2018Actor, director, producer, writer, lyricist, Balachandra Menon is an unsurpassed hero in Indian cinema
04 April 2018The doyen of the new wave has come out with his first film in eight years and the twelfth in a career spanning five decades, and at 75, stories still wait for him
24 August 2016The oldest warhorse, the crafty red don, a damaged chief minister and the spoiler in the fray. It’s between the predictable and the historical in Kerala
28 April 2016As the patriarch of Malayala Manorama, one of India’s largest media groups for almost four decades, KM Mathew played a seminal role in shaping the political and cultural life of Kerala
16 December 2015Gandhi used a temple agitation in Kerala to make it a larger movement for independence. The shrine of Shiva, an architectural marvel, continues to attract believers and nature lovers
13 August 2014Political patronage comes in handy for Muslim orphanages in the state that ferry children from poor states such as Bihar and Jharkhand. Will they continue to beat the rap?
03 July 2014CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…
10 April 2019Brahma 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
Ram Madhav is a member of the National Executive of RSS and a founding member of the governing council of India Foundation. He is the author of, among other titles, Partitioned Freedom and The Hindutva Paradigm
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