Editorial from 1910 published in The Svadeshabhimani critiques the role of certain publications in promoting religious hatred.
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Category: Issues
Exclusion in Plain Sight: Representations of ‘Folk’ Dance in Kerala’s Arts Festivals
‘Nadodi nruttham’ is an omnipresent cultural form in Kerala’s arts festival spaces. Drawing from her ongoing research into youth festivals in Kerala, Rajashree Raju delves into the caste dynamics behind a form that represents itself as ‘folk’.
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Pothikettu – Issue 72
Pothikkettu is a monthly editorial that ‘wraps up’ the issue for our readers. Dear Reader, This issue carries Harikrishnan’s thoughtful[…]
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Moral Spectacles: Theatre, Caste, and Gender in The Svadeshabhimani
Editorials about women in public theatre in The Svadeshabhimani give us important clues about am emerging caste-gender order.
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Why The Legendary Cartoonist Abu Abraham Still Matters
A retrospective in his native Kerala displays Abu Abraham’s many creative tensions – as cartoonist and parliamentarian, patriot and cosmopolitan[…]
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Pothikkettu – Issue 71
Pothikkettu is a monthly editorial that ‘wraps up’ the issue for our readers.
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Fielding Kozhikode: Notes on Collaboration (Part 2 of 2)
Chance brought together Deepti and Anjana, two researchers from different universities and backgrounds conducting fieldwork in Kozhikode. In a two-part reflective piece, they write about how their shadowing each other during fieldwork resulted in friendship, but also the intellectual quest of reading their field sites in a new light.
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On Free and Mandatory Primary Education
The idea that education should be free in Kerala was in circulation as early as 1904. Although a significant majority were in agreement with this proposal, the excerpt below shows how the idea of free education in State-owned schools was identified as a hindrance to the vision of good education. The prefatory note below is a reading of the editorial published on December 10, 1909.
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Pothikkettu – Issue 70
Pothikkettu is a monthly editorial that ‘wraps up’ the issue for our readers.
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A Window into The World of The Svadesabhimani (1905-1910)
The Svadeshabhimani was an influential newspaper of the Kerala Renaissance that was banned. Thought to be lost, its archives have been partially recovered over a century later. Sajitha Bashir presents us a glimpse into the recently digitised archives and the labour that went into making the archives accessible for all.
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