Thiruvananthapuram

Battle of the Equals

MG Radhakrishnan

Shashi Tharoor seeks a fourth-term from Thiruvananthapuram while his formidable challenger Rajeev Chandrasekhar hopes for a sensational debut

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

Film after Life

Akshaya Pillai

In Thiruvananthapuram to shoot his new film, Paul Cox talks about his ‘near death experience’ and what it has meant to his art

To Mother a Beach

Shahina KK

Two women’s stories of their struggle against sand mining—one protecting a river, and the other, the sea

Makeover Man

CP Surendran

The suit is out. Dhoti in. English out, Malayalam in. Former UN bureaucrat and Congress candidate Shashi Tharoor is a changed man. But will that take him where he wants to go?