Kerala

The First Heroine

Suneetha Balakrishnan

A fictional account of Kerala’s forgotten female Dalit actor of the 1930s

‘The tide is shifting away from male supremacy in movies,’ says Parvathy

Ullekh NP

Parvathy is done with the whataboutery of the Kerala film industry. The straightshooting actor shares her hopes and frustrations with Ullekh NP

‘You Can Hide the Most Powerful Gunpowder Within Language’

Nandini Nair

Malayalam author and screenwriter, Unni R uses satire and subtlety to talk about contemporary India. The author in conversation with Nandini Nair

The Swami and the Himalayas

Makarand R Paranjape

The revelatory journeys of Vivekananda

The Rooster’s Revenge

Palash Krishna Mehrotra

An absurdly comic and uncannily contemporary novel from Kerala

Murder Most Foul: Killing Political Rivals In front of Family, Children

Ullekh NP

The recent murder of a young political worker in Kannur, north Kerala, in the presence of his sisters puts the spotlight on a ghastly tradition of revenge politics

Leave It to the Gods

TP Sreenivasan

What lies behind Kerala’s current chaos and people’s sense of resignation during Onam

The Legend of Nangeli

Sabin Iqbal

She cut off her breasts to kill the male gaze

Gold’s Own Country

Makarand R Paranjape

A smuggling scam reveals why India needs to liberalise gold trading

For God’s Sake

J Sai Deepak

By restoring the management of Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple to the Travancore royal family, the Supreme Court raises the larger question of the state’s control over temples