Kerala

The Aspiring Brahmin

Madhavankutty Pillai

On the strange ambition of a Malayalam movie star turned politician

To Catch a Falling Star

Shahina KK

The brotherhood of the Malayalam film industry turns an accused actor into a tragic victim. Welcome to Malewood

A Portrait of the Popular Hero as a Dirty Male

Ullekh NP

Mobster mindset

An Act of Horror: The Crime that Shook Kerala

V Shoba

The darker side of the superstar-struck Malayalam film industry

God’s Recruits

Ullekh NP and Siddharth Singh

The radicalisation of Indian Muslim youth in the age of the Islamic State

Kapila Venu: A Master of Restraint

Malini Nair

Kapila Venu gives a feminist and modern twist to the ancient dance form of Koodiyattam

Shashi Tharoor, Scholar and MP

Open

Prose and Poise

Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI Aayog

Open

Kinetic Technocrat

Anees Salim: The Solitary Reaper

Jai Arjun Singh

Anees Salim first found a licence to fantasise in his hometown of Varkala in Kerala. In his latest novel he returns to the sea with a scathingly funny, achingly sad story

The Call of Jihad

Shahina KK

A village in north Kerala earns notoriety after 11 of its youth flee to join the Islamic State. Shahina KK visits the families of the vanished in Padanna