Kerala

Kerala versus Endosulfan

Shahina KK

How the state made the Indian Government fall in line with a global ban on endosulfan

The 90-Year-Old Student

Shahina KK

Fatima Beevi took a Class IV exam in Kerala last week

High Tea

Madhavankutty Pillai

Amidst the cold green hills of Munnar

There are few quite like the merry men of Communist Kerala. From a group’s 27-year crusade for senior citizens’ right to subsidised alcohol to others who shoot off indignant SMSes if a liquor shop delays opening its shutters by even five minutes, Soutik Biswas records the desperation of the Malayali alcoholic.

God’s Own Country Spirit

KA Shaji

They have names like Jesus Christ, Elephant Tamer and Newly-Wed Woman.

Comrade vs Comrade

Dhirendra K. Jha

The dice is loaded in favour of the Kerala faction of the CPM in its stand-off with the Bengal unit. Yet, this marks the Marxist party’s most bitter internal divide yet.

India This Week

arindam

Love the Animals, Hug the Butchers; Maharashtra’s Missing Girls; Kerala BJP Looks up to Bangalore; Return of the Mother of All Monitors; Revenge Politics