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The World of Malabar Circuses

31st August 2021 Issue 36

Accompanied by lively illustrations of her own, anthropologist Eléonore Rimbault takes us through the ways in which Kerala’s circuses are entangled with India’s history.

Kerala during the ‘Age of Iron’: Findings from a Recent Excavation

31st August 2021 Issue 36

Abhayan G. S. and Rajesh S. V. write about findings from the ongoing excavation of an Iron Age burial in Kerala, delving into the minute details that could unlock important clues to past human settlements in the Kerala region over two thousand years ago.

Has Malabar History Reached a Dead End?

31st July 2021 Issue 35

Recent research on Hoysala history has brought up interesting facts which contradict the assumption that the second Chera empire extended[…]

(Mis)Representations of the NRI Gulf Kid in Malayalam Cinema

31st July 2021 Issue 35

Aathma Dious argues that Malayali filmmakers have failed to move past popular—often stereotypical—tropes when it comes to representing second and[…]

Ala Podcast: മൺപാത്രങ്ങൾ പറയുന്ന പ്രാചീനകഥകൾ: പുരാവസ്തു ഗവേഷണം കേരളത്തിൽ

30th June 2021 Issue 34

ഇന്ന് കേരളം എന്ന് അറിയപ്പെടുന്ന പ്രദേശത്തിന്റെ പ്രാചീന ചരിത്രത്തെക്കുറിച്ചു ഐതീഹ്യങ്ങൾക്കപ്പുറം ശാസ്ത്രത്തിനെന്താണ് പറയാനുള്ളത്? പഴയ ധാരണകളെ മാറ്റിമറിക്കുന്ന ചില പുതിയ കണ്ടെത്തലുകളെക്കുറിച്ചു സംസാരിക്കുകയാണ് പുരാവസ്തു ഗവേഷകയായ ജസീറ[…]

Provocative Sounds: Work, Leisure, and Malayalam Radio in Qatar

30th June 2021 Issue 34

What can the radio-listening practices of working-class Malayalis in the Gulf, and the inter-ethnic tensions they produce, tell us about[…]

Changing before their very eyes: Urban Expansion and Dispossession in Kammattipadam

30th June 2021 Issue 34

Yadu and Sujeesh analyse how the visual world crafted by the 2016 movie Kammattipadam provides minute insight into the class[…]

A man in his mundu stands in front of a lit lamp, looking solemnly towards the sky, eyes closed. He is propped up on a platform by people who are kneeling on their knees

Mr. Family Historian (or kudumba-charitrakaaran): The Syrian Christian Case

31st May 2021 Issue 33

Accompanied by original sketches, Nidhin Donald presents a tongue-in-cheek perspective of the trend of producing written ‘family histories’ among Syrian[…]