Accompanied by original sketches, Gaya Hadiya shares her experiences of chayakkadas in Kerala, highlighting how they reflect the gender, caste and class relations in the region.
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Month: June 2022
Pandit P Gopalan Nair and Captain Braithwaite: The Story of an Unlikely Friendship
C.K. Ramachandran writes about an unlikely friendship forged in early-twentieth-century, between Gopalan Nair, a scholar from Malabar, and Philip Braithwaite, an English school inspector.
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Waiting for Mass in Malayalam Cinema
The idea of a ‘mass film’ is an eminently recognisable one in south India, but just what is it? How do we make sense of the aesthetics and feelings that make fans say, ‘nalla mass padam’, and just why is it missing in some recent Malayalam films? Arjun Ramachandran writes.
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