As CPM polls approach, the Achuthanandan and Pinarayi Vijayan factions sharpen their claws
06 August 2011The Church refused to let Jolly Thomas bury her husband till she gave them 25 cents of land. Forty years later, she recalls her lonely court battle against the institution, which she won only to find her husband’s grave now lying outside church premises. This is the story of how Jolly built a chapel, her own Taj Mahal, for her beloved husband Thampi
06 August 2011Paralysed waist down, Biju Varghese modifies cars for the physically challenged to drive
29 July 2011Some devotees believe the wrath of God struck him dead for his sacrilege
20 July 2011A 77-year-old German lady who’d made a Kochi hotel her home for the past eight years died last month. Her body has been lying unclaimed since. We went in search of her past and found four threads unspooling a lonely and wounded life
20 July 2011Balakrishna Pillai of the ruling UDF in Kerala is supposedly serving a one-year rigorous imprisonment sentence for corruption. Yet, he gets home food, an air-cooler in his cell and has been out of jail for 53 of the 144 days served. And now the government plans to set him free
14 July 2011Let alone the Kerala government, no one knows how to deal with the treasure hoard found in the Sree Padmanabha temple
07 July 2011Nalini Jameela has already written a bestselling autobiography of her life in this shadowy industry. With her second book, due soon, she shares her insights not only into the behaviour of men, but also the art of storytelling as honed by her professional skills
16 June 2011The talented Malayalee comedian Salim Kumar has turned serious, and with enough conviction to bag a National Award for best actor
08 June 2011It has unified political parties in Kerala’s Malabar region, but to no effect. Newlywed couples continue to suffer humiliating pranks played by friends of the groom
25 May 2011Brahma 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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