Tag: Tracking Indian Communities blog
Cong faces a defining moment
<!--Uday Deb--> The Congress party in the state stands on the cusp of a golden political opportunity—a once-in-a-lifetime chance to break free from the clutches ... Read More
Chasing windmills in God’s own country
<!--Uday Deb--> Nanmayil John Kihothe’ trades theatrical bombast for nuanced storytelling in this kalari-inspired adaptation Being loud is often the charge levelled against theatre productions ... Read More
Lord of the left
<!--Uday Deb--> Marx called religion the opium of the masses. Shedding its ideological rigour, CPM has retreated from its progressive stand on women’s entry to ... Read More
‘Malabar still lags behind Travancore’
<!--Uday Deb--> History shapes the future. While Kerala’s social and political past has been widely studied, its economic history remains largely unexplored. To bridge this ... Read More
America in Plain Sight
<!--Uday Deb--> In the US, dissent, memory and culture are woven into the very fabric of daily life The United States is often described in terms ... Read More
The Sir Syndrome
Once a colonial courtesy, ‘Honourable’ has become an undeserved badge of pride for our netas — a word that outlived the Raj, thrived on feudal ... Read More
Sailing Through Time: History on Screens
<!--Uday Deb--> Scholars combine tech, archives and field trips to explore 150 years of Dutch rule For most of us, history is more than reading ... Read More
On Each Shelf, a Different Ramayana
This village library safeguards some of the rarest and most diverse Malayalam editions of the ancient epic There is something unique about the small village ... Read More
For the time being, for all of us
<!--Uday Deb--> As curator of the sixth Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Nikhil Chopra faces a formidable task: restoring the dynamism of the international art event, which had ... Read More
Courts acquit, but who compensates?
<!--Uday Deb--> Victims of wrongful prosecution are left to rebuild lives on their own The recent acquittal of 12 men in the 2006 Mumbai serial ... Read More