Vignette of a true India

M.F.Hussain, the controversial Indian artist is no more an Indian now. Every nook and corner of India is buzzed with ‘Hussain issue’ while Gayatri Sundaram takes you to the Indian terrains where Hussain has been said to be wandered around without shoes in order to feel ...

Being the wife of a real Communist is synonymous with walking through the fire. Savitry Aryan, an 80 year old Brahmin lady from Kerala, talks with Ajitha Jeevan, about her life of endurance after being wedded ...

Is there any festival which has born out of jealousy? Indeed, it is here right in India. It is nothing but Holi, which is being celebrated today wherever an Indian community lives…Rajshri Iyer talks about the symbolic and transgressing aspects of the ...

Kerala is a State, where the celebration statement is equated with caparisoned elephants, conveniently brushing aside their basic rights to live.  At the same time, a ritualistic temple festival is being celebrated in Kerala annually without the participation of elephants and adoring the lower caste people as ...

February 14, 2010 witnessed a rare get together at Cochin. The venue was NUALS and Model Technical HSS Kaloor. Children from all parts of the State assembled there along with their parents and  attended the event conducted by the FOPIK (Federation of Parents in Kerala). The event was a tearful ...

Sangeeta Nataka Academy theater hall in Trichur was teeming with a mammoth gathering like never before, on Monday to felicitate Jayaraj Warrier, the Caricaturist who paved a different way of stage satire following the foot steps of the late Thullal ...

Most of the festivals in India are either directly or indirectly related to the cultural past of the country. As the generation changes, it undergoes various evolutionary processes which sometimes may subject to immense changes from the original version and make it trail off the heritage track. ...

"India is like a donkey carrying a sack of gold on its back. The donkey does not know what it is carrying but is content to go along with the load on its back" An old saying still worthy to quote. Indians keep aloof as if they do not know anything ...