Kerala politics

BJP’s Next Target: Kerala

Ullekh NP

Where the cadres of the RSS/BJP are locked in a bloody battle with the Marxists

Loud Cheer for Pinarayi Vijayan

Shahina KK

Kerala's Chief Minister wins applause for dropping Jayarajan from his cabinet

Pinarayi Vijayan: A Marxist in the Marketplace

Ullekh NP

Pinarayi Vijayan chants a new development mantra—and brooks no distraction. The Kerala Chief Minister in conversation with Open

Between Moolah and the Mullah

Tufail Ahmad

The Islamist radicalisation in Kerala

Red Reproach

Ullekh NP

While the CPM admonishes Sitaram Yechury for the Congress tie-up in West Bengal, sympathetic comrades worry about staring at oblivion

Pinarayi Vijayan: The McMarxist From Malabar

Ullekh NP

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan of Kerala, a communist feared as well as admired, is a market-friendly pragmatist in power

Reading the Future in the Ashes of Thursday

S Prasannarajan

A comrade who defies both biology and ideology in Kerala. The triumph of Kancheepuram kitsch in Tamil Nadu. The compelling subaltern-sandesh socialist in Bengal. A Modi wave on the Brahmaputra. And a Family that couldn't provide the sheltering shadow for a withered party...The summer thriller of 2016