Malayalam
OV Vijayan: Return to Khasak
Deepa Bhasthi
The masterpiece of OV Vijayan gets an innovative stage adaptation
KR Meera: Rebel with a Pause
She reveals the gendered ideologies imprisoning her characters, constructing a feminist model of dominant literature
Auteur Audacious
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
The Beginning of CopyLeft
A Malayalee poet hopes to set off a trend by making one of his major collections copyright free
The Death of an Indian-born Language
William Rozario, last speaker of Indo-Portuguese Creole of Cochin, died recently. When I had met him for my research on Creole languages, he was glad to speak his language again, even though I could only pick it up in parts
Pan-Indian Ambition
Mammooty would have us refer to cinema made in India as ‘Indian cinema’. With his latest, Pazhaasi Raja, simultaneously releasing in five languages, he should certainly hope so.
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