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Kerala

Boozy Kerala: The French Connection

Shahina KK

After Kerala’s ban on bars, the erstwhile French colony of Mahe has become the favourite destination for Malayalee liquor tourists

Kerala athletes’ suicide: Such a cruel game

The suicide pact made by four teenage gold medallists in Kerala points to a larger malaise in the administration of the Sports Authority of India

Sitaram Yechury and the last ghost story

Make CPM a social democratic party or dump it for the sake of political hygiene

The Pleasures of Being at Sea

The hidden enchantment of Bekal Fort

Revolution: A Love Story

Kerala’s most wanted Maoist couple are using fiction and journalism as weapons of mass delusion

Miffed VS Achuthanandan leaves party meet in a huff

The nonagenarian communist went out of the conference hall bidding farewell to the general secretary Prakash Karat who unsuccessfully tried to pacify him

Professor Fearless

Islamic fundamentalists chopped off his right hand. His college dismissed him. The government abandoned him. His wife ended her own life when she could not take the trauma any longer. And his son was hounded by the police for no reason. Open met TJ Joseph in his hometown in central Kerala. The indefatigable teacher is in the midst of writing his memoir

PRAISE THE LOST SHEEP

It is not easy to be a former priest or nun in Kerala

The Fall of Mani Saar

He was considered the ultimate political survivor. Now, Kerala’s 82-year-old finance minister and the country’s longest-serving MLA stands disgraced

THE JEWEL IN THE CROWN

Zen and the art of being the emperor of a jewellery business in India. The man from Thrissur in Kerala has set the gold standard for transparency in the industry

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