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Bobby Kunhu Some years back, one of my good activist friends – very prominent, secular and politically articulate quoted her daughter to indicate that she had “no problems” with homosexuality as long as it did not involve her children or siblings!! In 1996, during the initial presentation on “Discrimination based on Sexual Orientation” [...] Bobby Kunhu
Another death, another celebrity, another space and and so many more questions on transitory choices of identities. I am not searching for commonalities, but am wondering aloud about one interesting commonality – choice of conversion to a religion – that believes itself to persecuted – Islam!! Though Michael [...] Bobby Kunhu
This is not an obituary, but reflections that have been troubling me since the demise of the poet Kamala Suraiya and various reactions to her life, particularly one incident in her life that has provoked extreme reactions – her conversion to Islam On one hand, some people wearing the [...] |
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Beemapalli Police Firing: Kerala’s Own Cultural Amnesia
Ashraf K & Jenny Rowena
Two years ago on the 17th of May the Kerala police entered the Muslim residential area of Beemapalli, a small seaside town in Thiruvanathapuram, and shot down 5 men and injured 52 other men. They also killed a sixteen year old boy by attacking him with the [...]