Malayali

Lady with the Lamp

Antara Raghavan

Displacement and humanity told through the eyes of a Malayali nurse

Theatre of the Everyday

Jai Arjun Singh

S Hareesh’s short stories highlight his ability to work in the epic and mundane mode at the same time

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.