A Kerala Studies Blog
Despite outreach from the government in recent years, migrant labourers—especially dependent migrants—continue to face social, economic, and political hardships that make integration challenging. Athira writes about these hurdles, focusing on the experience of women and children who often accompany the employed male.
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The ways in which we have come to negotiate with the presence of technology in our lives are multiple and varied. Himaganga revisits the 2021 Malayalam film Chathurmukham to see how the techno-horror genre represents some of the anxieties that surround the pervasiveness of media devices in our everyday lives.
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