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3 weeks ago | 
t.ly | Madhavankutty Pillai |Siddharth Singh |Rajeev Deshpande
News Briefs | Openings Dictum | The Big Picture | Newsmaker | Noisemaker | Ideas | Money Mantra | Viral (Illustrations: Saurabh Singh) IT IS THAT TIME of year when the US Commission on International Religious Free•dom (USCIRF) releases its annual report. As always, the report is a blend of fact, fic•tion and fantasy and singles out countries for violation of religious freedoms. As in other years, India has been singled out as a “Country of Particular Concern”.
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3 weeks ago | 
openthemagazine.com | Madhavankutty Pillai |Siddharth Singh |Rajeev Deshpande
News Briefs | Openings Dictum | The Big Picture | Newsmaker | Noisemaker | Ideas | Money Mantra | Viral (Illustrations: Saurabh Singh) IT IS THAT TIME of year when the US Commission on International Religious Free•dom (USCIRF) releases its annual report. As always, the report is a blend of fact, fic•tion and fantasy and singles out countries for violation of religious freedoms. As in other years, India has been singled out as a “Country of Particular Concern”.
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1 month ago | 
t.ly | Madhavankutty Pillai |Ramesh Singh |Ullekh NP |Sudeep Paul
FOR A STATE that prides itself on being progressive, Kerala has been grappling with a resurgence of caste discrimination, particularly within temple spaces. The Koodalmanikyam Temple in Thrissur has become the centre of controversy after priests (tantris) boycotted all temple ceremonies in protest against the appointment of a so-called avarna individual to a non-priestly role. Their justification? A supposed violation of the temple norms.
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1 month ago | 
openthemagazine.com | Madhavankutty Pillai |Ramesh Singh |Ullekh NP |Sudeep Paul
FOR A STATE that prides itself on being progressive, Kerala has been grappling with a resurgence of caste discrimination, particularly within temple spaces. The Koodalmanikyam Temple in Thrissur has become the centre of controversy after priests (tantris) boycotted all temple ceremonies in protest against the appointment of a so-called avarna individual to a non-priestly role. Their justification? A supposed violation of the temple norms.
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1 month ago | 
openthemagazine.com | S Prasannarajan |Ullekh NP |Rajeev Deshpande |Madhavankutty Pillai
MK Stalin brandishes Tamil as a political weapon. How desperate is he?
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1 month ago | 
openthemagazine.com | Siddharth Singh |Rajeev Deshpande |Sudeep Paul |Madhavankutty Pillai
ABVP has become the nursery of the new establishment
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
openthemagazine.com | Madhavankutty Pillai |Siddharth Singh |Rahul Pandita
News Briefs | Openings When Khan returned home from the hospital, his hand was in a brace and he had a bandage on his neck but other than that, there was little to indicate the trauma he had gone through Saif Ali Khan leaving Lilavati Hospital, Mumbai, January 21, 2025 JUST ABOUT everything about the attack on Saif Ali Khan and its aftermath was layered with shocks and twists, and that includes his return home in the full glare of media cameras dressed in blue denim and a white shirt, looking...
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
openthemagazine.com | Madhavankutty Pillai
News Briefs | Web Exclusive Spotted by Railway Protection Force, Mumbai police get custody from Chhattisgarh Saif Ali Khan (Photo: Getty Images) An image of the piece of knife that was lodged in the back of Saif Ali Khan, and which narrowly missed his spine, made it to the media and it indicated how vicious the attack had been. It was not a tip but a large section of the top half of the weapon. The knife would have to be driven with force to have embedded like that.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
openthemagazine.com | Madhavankutty Pillai |Siddharth Singh
News Briefs | Openings Dictum | The Big Picture: Prayagraj | Newsmaker: Saif Ali Khan | Noisemaker: SN Subrahmanyan | Ideas: Transparency Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the launch of three Naval Vessels, Mumbai, January 15, 2025 THE LAUNCH OF three naval platforms on January 15 marks an important step in India’s naval modernisation and refurbishment.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
openthemagazine.com | Madhavankutty Pillai
News Briefs | Angle Why bike taxis have been taking so long to come out in Maharashtra Two years ago, Rapido started bike taxis in Maharashtra and came face to face with the usual hurdle for doing any business in India—the government. Its vehicles were seized because the enterprise was held to be not legal. But in many other parts of the country, they were already there and you intermittently heard news of bike taxis being eventually allowed in the state.
