Madhavankutty Pillai
On the strange ambition of a Malayalam movie star turned politician
A master storyteller from the south crunches time in an unusual superstructure of a novel within a novel
This book fills a vacuum as the art of a pioneer of the Indian New Wave gets a scholarly treatment
She reveals the gendered ideologies imprisoning her characters, constructing a feminist model of dominant literature
Auteur Audacious The Malayalam film Njan (Myself) by Ranjith is one of this year’s most original films. Here, the novelist on whose work the film is based pays his tribute to the genius of his friend and collaborator Ranjith
A Malayalee poet hopes to set off a trend by making one of his major collections copyright free