Kerala

The Sex Worker as Storyteller

Shahina KK

Nalini Jameela has already written a bestselling autobiography of her life in this shadowy industry. With her second book, due soon, she shares her insights not only into the behaviour of men, but also the art of storytelling as honed by her professional skills

The Terror of Wedding Raggers

Shahina KK

It has unified political parties in Kerala’s Malabar region, but to no effect. Newlywed couples continue to suffer humiliating pranks played by friends of the groom

Southern Discomfort

Shahina KK

Trouble brews for the Congress in the south

Man of the Match

Shahina KK

VS Achuthanandan may have ended up on the losing side, but he made the Left look respectable even in defeat.

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

A Tipsy-Turvy State

Soutik Biswas

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.