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A Vicious Manifesto

A new spectre has started haunting Keralam overnight – The Dalit extremist killer.

Police and talk show hosts are on a frantic chase. The context is puzzling. Following the murder of a young businessman from a prominent family last month, home ministry and police force of the state have been under severe flak. And all [...]

Bobby Kunhu

One Flu Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

These are difficult times to be recovering from any kind of flu, especially if you are literate and/or have access to any form of mass media. I am neither an epidemiologist, nor a medical anthropologist. These are ramblings literally inspired by feverish delirium!! And it is fairly deliberate too that I am writing this at a juncture [...]

James Michael

Jodhaa Akbar and the Question of Film Studies

There are, so to say, at least two conventional ways through which one can study films. One would be to say that films like novels or poems reflect society and by studying films one would be studying society. Another conventional way to look at it is to say that films [...]

Nizar Ahmed

Life after secularism

Secular India (Namita Devidayal, water colour)

Life

By life I mean what life forms are predicated on. A life form is a complex of practices, values, reasons, and beliefs etc. that picks out a group as a people, or more or less characterizes a group as a people. [...]

Salim T K

Behavioral Safety Observation

As ever been, management pundits do not speak politics openly, but they fully know the politics of power mechanism.  They know how the ‘power’ moves in an organization to build up the hierarchy at macro level and how to ‘guide’ the employees at micro level to be compliant to the [...]