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I am always a Gandhian : Akkitham

I am always a Gandhian : Akkitham

Thursday, April 7, 2011 4:13

ANEESH  POOKAD in conversation with the poet laureate and social reformer Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri. “Thaliyathiri reign is the first and foremost form of democracy. I think you cannot see such a healthy ruling pattern anywhere else in ...

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Chemanjeri — keeping alive a tradition

Chemanjeri — keeping alive a tradition

Monday, October 18, 2010 8:10

Even at the threshold of a centenary Natyacharya Guru Chemanjery Kunjiraman Nair is evocative and aesthetic in the artistic brackets of a Kathkali maestro. Aneesh Pookad meets this man of matter who lives a life for and up to this classical art propagating and reinventing its ...

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When God’s Own Country homes Terrorism

When God’s Own Country homes Terrorism

Thursday, August 12, 2010 10:44

Video :Mohan Lal  @ ACT It is the adulterous link among the corrupt legislative and executive, supported by the gagged media that made Kerala an incubation centre of terrorists. Maya Krishnan illustrates the graph of terrorism grown in the State from the blast at ...

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POTTAN THEYYAM — A call behind

POTTAN THEYYAM — A call behind

Monday, July 12, 2010 9:22

Pottan Theyyam makes every one stand at their toe. Its prologue, Thottam paattu shoots questions towards the bosom of a State divided into irrational fragments of a void caste system. Rubina Shagin talks with a veteran Theyyam artist narrating the interesting incidents of ‘becoming’ and the ...

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When S. JANAKI rocks the cradle..

When S. JANAKI rocks the cradle..

Friday, June 25, 2010 4:49

Gayatri Sundaram narrates the story of a unique mother-son relationship which sometimes may debase our prejudices and centuries old equations. It breaks all the pragmatic barriers and reaches the pinnacle of an all-for-love resolution when we came to know that the mother in the story is ...

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MAD that Makes Differences

MAD that Makes Differences

Monday, June 7, 2010 3:52

Absolutely different from today’s run-of-the-mill tales of teenage rebellion, Rajashri Iyer tells a tale of a group of youngsters and their MAD drives  along the length and breadth of India, to make  at least  a minimal difference in the current turbidity that ...

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Watch Dogs in the ‘Doggy Team’

Watch Dogs in the ‘Doggy Team’

Friday, May 14, 2010 10:10

The ever-crusader media has been ruthlessly criticized for its paprazzi style of gossiping,  intruding too much into the privacy of prominent persons, euphemistically in the ‘investigative’ brackets.  When the blogging rocks sensationalism and camera phones make anyone a paparazzi at the premise of an accident or celebrity, this ...

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A walk with a Malayali

A walk with a Malayali

Thursday, April 29, 2010 11:08

A walk with Maya Krishnan unveils you the present state of Kerala which is in a crazy run to grab the super powers of the so-called development. She ushers you to the dark harems of the Malayali mindset where they buried their once adored values ...

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Reporting a Thrissur Pooram

Reporting a Thrissur Pooram

Friday, April 23, 2010 3:37

On the coming 24th, not only Trichur, but the whole world is celebrating Thrissur Pooram, the globe’s most enchanting sight. While an exclusive reporting of the Pooram event, standing amidst a fervent mass is seemed to be a cry for the moon, a book on Thrissur Pooram has ...

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Garnishing the Cultural Capital Trichur

Garnishing the Cultural Capital Trichur

Thursday, April 22, 2010 2:55

As the global event Trichur Pooram is nearing Trichur Corporation is on a scamper in this eleventh hour to make arrangements for being its most hospitable host. Dr.A.M.C.Menon talks about the burlesque and haste activities going on in the Swaraj Round in the name of beautification ...

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