J. Devika

Sep 19, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | R. Ramachandran |J. Devika |Vaishna Roy |Aparna Eswaran

Acute encephalitis outbreak in India linked to Chandipura virusBETWEEN early June and August 15, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare reported 245 cases of acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) with 82 deaths (a case fatality rate, or CFR, of 33 per cent), the WHO reported. Chandipura virus (CHPV) infection has been confirmed in 64 of the 245 cases, 61 of them from Gujarat and 3 from Rajasthan. To date, no human-to-human transmission has been reported.

Sep 17, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Aparna Eswaran |Silpa Satheesh |Arathi P.M |J. Devika

In recent weeks, patriarchal norms and male dominance in Malayalam cinema have come under scrutiny following the release of the redacted version of the Justice Hema Committee report. This report, commissioned by the Kerala government, has highlighted the various challenges faced by women in the Malayalam film industry.

Sep 17, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Vaishna Roy |J. Devika |Aparna Eswaran |Silpa Satheesh

Writing in this issue of Frontline, the feminist scholar J.

Sep 17, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | J. Devika |Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay |Vaishna Roy

One of the most remarkable things about Kerala in the 21st century is the recurrence of feminist revolts that are sometimes without a feminist. No, I do not mean state feminism. State feminism in Kerala, at least from the 1990s, has by now had three major effects. First, it has brought into local-level public life a large number of elected women members into the panchayati raj institutions.