From An Unknown Utsavam, Credits: Mathrubhumi The inherent dissonance in the State Government(s) running Hindu Religious Institutions and...

Francis Fukuyama, the renowned political scientist notes in his book ‘Political Order and Political Decay’ that many Sub-Saharan African...

An Analysis of the 2020 Kerala Local Body Elections A jubilant Chief Minister Pinrayi Vijayan with other LDF leaders: Communist Party of...

No, they cannot. On the recent decision of the Karnataka High Court to dismiss two petitions challenging the appointment of two...

K. Karunakaran (UDF) and E.K. Naynar (LDF) who were the scions of the two fronts in the 1980s and 1990s. Since the Assembly elections in...

Communist Green (Chromolaena odorata) an invasive plant species, seen in Road sides of Kerala The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has...

In many ways, the framework of constitutional rights in the modern world have not substantially changed since the late 18th century....

The news of the horrifying crash of Air India Express Flight 1344 in Kozhikode Airport on 08th August 2020 has attracted significant...

The Government’s decision to block 59 ‘Chinese’ applications in India has prompted an assorted set of responses. The ban comes on the...

Written by Aishwarya Ajayan & Ananth Krishna The decision by the producers of seven films, including those of major Bollywood release...

A special post on Mohanlal’s sixtieth birthday. I am far from a film aficionado. I am at the most a casual viewer of cinema. As someone...

A brand new controversy has broken out regarding the allocation of disaster relief funds to States in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak....

Note: This is not a normal post, but for those who might not be feeling their best due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. If you’re feeling great...

I confess to have never read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s bestseller, Love in the time of Cholera. But the title was too good an opportunity...

Lucifer, the Malayalam political action starring Mohanlal, has all the elements of a masala blockbuster (as it became the biggest earning...

I have so far covered some information about Tokugawa Ieyasu in three blog posts: The Glorious son of Japan, Resolution in Defeat and...

Tokugawa Ieyasu, the great unifier of Japan, became the Shogun (essentially military ruler) of Japan in 1603, three years after his...

If you were to take a walk in any of the cities or towns of Kerala this past Thursday or Friday, you would see a higher than usual...

The 2019 General elections witnessed the incumbent dispensation being re-elected with a larger majority, a first for  a non-Congress...

Voting. Something that I have been looking forward to doing for a long, long time. My first election related memory is me accompanying my...