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Kerala

Sitaram Yechury and the last ghost story

S Prasannarajan

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

The Comrade Who Dared: MV Raghavan (1933 to 2014)

A firebrand leader, Raghavan used his sturdy, film-star looks, alpha male image, rugged nature and ruthless ambition to rustle his way through the ranks of the party

THE LAST FOSSILS

How the Left lost the fight against inequality to the Right

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