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Nov 24, 2024 | 
telegraphindia.com | M.G. Radhakrishnan
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s impressive electoral debut in Wayanad was expected.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
telegraphindia.com | M.G. Radhakrishnan
The Wayanad result seems almost to be a foregone conclusion. In the previous two elections, Rahul Gandhi won this United Democratic Front stronghold by massive margins M.G. Radhakrishnan Published 28.10.24, 05:01 AM Within six months of the Lok Sabha elections, Kerala has, once again, been thrust into a high-voltage political campaign for the by-elections being held on November 11 for three seats.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
telegraphindia.com | M.G. Radhakrishnan
SOUTHERN SKIES || Amartya Sen and Jean Drèze maintained that India should learn from the Kerala Model of human development attained with limited resources M.G. Radhakrishnan Published 25.09.24, 07:17 AM Sourced by the Telegraph. Kerala has long fascinated scholars for its unique political and social records. In 1957, the state surprised the world by becoming one of the first regions to elect communists to power democratically.
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
telegraphindia.com | M.G. Radhakrishnan
Kerala has always shown exemplary collective spirit in organising rescue and relief operations after disasters.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | M.G. Radhakrishnan |Amey Tirodkar |Vaishna Roy
Justice K. Hema Committee’s roller-coaster journey outpaces the darkest crime thriller movie. It took nearly five years for the committee’s report to see light, and that too in a redacted form, facing unending hurdles until literally, the last minute. Yet, even the truncated report has exposed—without mentioning any names—the widely-admired Malayalam film industry’s ugly underbelly, where women face extreme levels of sexual and other forms of exploitation, discrimination and persecution.
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Jul 28, 2024 | 
telegraphindia.com | M.G. Radhakrishnan
It has been eight years since Adoor made Pinneyum and he is known for long intervals between films — he has made only 12 feature films in over half a century M.G. Radhakrishnan Published 29.07.24, 06:49 AM Adoor Gopalakrishnan, filmmaker. Sourced by the Telegraph Adoor Gopalakrishnan, who turned 83 earlier this month, now reminds one of his unforgettable characters, living in the liminality between the past and the present.
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Jun 23, 2024 | 
telegraphindia.com | M.G. Radhakrishnan
SOUTHERN SKIES || Without convincing corrections and with Priyanka Gandhi Vadra contesting the by-election in Wayanad, the LDF is undoubtedly in for even stronger headwinds M.G. Radhakrishnan Published 24.06.24, 06:56 AM Pinarayi Vijayan Sourced by The Telegraph The popular Malayalam film, Sandesham (The Message, 1991), was a scathing satire on the moral degeneration of political parties.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Ayesha Minhaz |Anand Mishra |M.G. Radhakrishnan |Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay
Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leaders boycotted the Telangana Formation Day celebrations on June 2 in protest against a new State emblem and song, which they felt was an erasure of Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao’s legacy. Two days later, the party drew a blank in the Lok Sabha election. The Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party won 8 seats each (of 17 in Telangana). Both parties asserted their improved standing, with the Congress increasing its tally from three in 2019.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | M.G. Radhakrishnan |Greeshma Kuthar |Vaishna Roy
When the golden crown that actor-politician Suresh Gopi placed on the statue of the Virgin Mary at Our Lady Of Lourdes Cathedral in Thrissur in January fell down and broke, it was widely seen as a bad omen for his electoral chances. Though his offering was ostensibly to seek blessings for his daughter ahead of her wedding, it was also perceived as a strategy to woo Christians to benefit his candidature from the Thrissur Lok Sabha constituency.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Anand Mishra |Nirupama Subramanian |M.G. Radhakrishnan |K. Nitya Kalyani
As much as people like talking about eliminating caste, there are no signs that it is going away anytime soon, or even becoming less important, either socially or politically. On August 1, 2023, the Patna High Court, giving its go-ahead to a caste survey in Bihar, noted that “despite attempts to efface it from the social fabric, caste remains a reality and refuses to be swept aside, wished away, or brushed aside nor does it wither away and disperse into thin air”.
