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Baby On Board…
December 9, 2023, 11:09 AM IST
A bundle of potent tales, tempered with the righteous fury of women caught between pregnancy and abortion, has taken the festival circuits by storm this year. The 28th edition of the International Film Festival of…
December 9, 2023, 11:09 AM IST
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A VILLAGE THAT REACHED FOR THE STARS
November 25, 2023, 10:48 AM IST
From the onset, it seemed like a mission fraught with uncertainties. There was light at the end, though. When Nike-Apache, a two-stage solid propellant vehicle took off from Thumba in 1963, it had a luminescent…
November 25, 2023, 10:48 AM IST
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Historic Chariot Gets A Golden Makeover
October 7, 2023, 9:13 AM IST
Lucknow-based conservator Iliyas Ahmed is bringing the chariot built during the reign of Maharaja Swathi Thirunal back to life Darkened patina has spread over the surface in random patterns. The tassels have faded. The carved…
October 7, 2023, 9:13 AM IST
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Restoring Original Grandeur Of India’s Oldest Mosque
September 23, 2023, 7:52 AM IST
Cheraman Juma Masjid in Kodungallur, India’s first-ever mosque dating back to 629 AD, with its sloped tile roofs and minimalistic style, had been partially demolished, ravaged by flood, rebuilt and repaired many times. The most…
September 23, 2023, 7:52 AM IST
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We Shall Overcome
September 16, 2023, 7:49 AM IST
A cacophony of slogans, speeches and announcements rends the air in front of the Secretariat in Thiruvananthapuram. Small groups of protesters line almost the entire length of the footpath. Each group has a cause of…
September 16, 2023, 7:49 AM IST
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Manipuri Dreams
August 5, 2023, 8:15 AM IST
Meena Longjam, the national award-winning filmmaker from Manipur was waiting in a long queue in front of an ATM in Imphal as she spoke over the phone early on Friday morning. She spent around 30…
August 5, 2023, 8:15 AM IST
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Occupational Hazard? A Doctor’s Tragic Tale
July 29, 2023, 9:58 AM IST
‘Ordinary risk’— that was the phrase used to reject the application submitted by Dr M R Umadevi for a special disability leave for 105 days. She had undergone a spine surgery for bone TB in…
July 29, 2023, 9:58 AM IST
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Proof Is In The Print
July 1, 2023, 8:33 AM IST
In 1892, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, two children were found murdered. Francisca Rojas, their mother, who was wounded in her neck, accused Velasquez—a man she refused to marry–of killing her children. Local police took the…
July 1, 2023, 8:33 AM IST
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A Tragic Drowning & Human Folly
May 13, 2023, 12:01 PM IST
“In all, 24 bodies were recovered. Of these, 19 bodies were identified by the relatives or acquaintances of the deceased persons. Among the 19 who were identified were a Nadar, an Elayathu, a Christian boy,…
May 13, 2023, 12:01 PM IST
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Gender bender with a difference
April 1, 2023, 7:56 AM IST
Cross-dressed males wear baubles, long hair wigs, and flowers to assume unmistakably feminine appearances. The shaven faces are garishly made up and their masculine bodies are draped in gleaming sarees. For two nights, they line…
April 1, 2023, 7:56 AM IST
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‘Puzzling as to how Asan is associated with a particular caste’
March 4, 2023, 7:04 AM IST
When director K P Kumaran made his debut feature film Athithi in 1974, he managed to make a screenplay with over 40 scenes from a play with three acts. The film subverted the popular notions…
March 4, 2023, 7:04 AM IST
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The M & M Show: Montage & Mise-en-Scene
February 12, 2023, 6:51 AM IST
In Bheeshmaparvam, Mammootty’s biggest hit in 2022, a cliched gangster trope gets a classic touch. A group of men circle Michael (Mammootty) and close in. His aides sense danger. “Back away”, they tell him. Michael,…
February 12, 2023, 6:51 AM IST
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Kummara Sambhavam
November 26, 2022, 8:01 AM IST
There is a practice in pottery to close the mouth of the kiln using broken bits of pots that get damaged after being baked. The Malayalam language doesn’t have a word to define this method….
November 26, 2022, 8:01 AM IST
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Food As Aphrodisiac
October 22, 2022, 8:00 AM IST
In an all-green photograph, rows of lady’s fingers take the shape of a headgear adorning a woman; her face, her saree, all awash in green save for a golden border and a bindi on her…
October 22, 2022, 8:00 AM IST
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The God Particle
July 23, 2022, 9:46 AM IST
As the famous Higgs Boson puzzle has it, if outer space is the answer, then what’s the question? Rocketry: The Nambi Effect makes a strong case for intense religiosity and scientific rigour complementing each other…
July 23, 2022, 9:46 AM IST
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Mammootty Mahatmyam
May 21, 2022, 9:03 AM IST
The ageing superstar takes a big risk but Puzhu flops on two counts: It conflates individual neurosis with casteism and flirts dangerously with High Hinduism while supposedly exposing Islamophobia When Tom Hanks wrote a guest…
May 21, 2022, 9:03 AM IST
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Wars within
March 19, 2022, 8:14 AM IST
Some of the best films from this edition of IFFK are on actual conflict zones as well as on the equally vital struggle to make good cinema ‘Too much smoking, too many swear words, too…
March 19, 2022, 8:14 AM IST
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Call Of The Wild
March 5, 2022, 11:53 AM IST
A crowdfunded book sheds light on the late teacher and conservationist Kamarudeen Kunju A group of environmentalists, students and research scholars had planned a fete to honour botanist and environmental activist M Kamarudeen Kunju, who…
March 5, 2022, 11:53 AM IST
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The elephant in the garden
November 20, 2021, 9:53 AM IST
A non-verbal performance on the importance of sharing space If man-animal conflict is about spaces, two theatre artists are redrawing the concept of space and forms of art to come up with a digital theatre…
November 20, 2021, 9:53 AM IST
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A painting is a palimpsest
September 4, 2021, 7:31 AM IST
More often than not, restoring a work of art also means solving the mystery behind the damage. Sometimes, the causes emerge as clearly as the strokes of the paint brush, but at times it requires…
September 4, 2021, 7:31 AM IST
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