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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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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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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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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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മലയാളിയുടെ വായനാ സംസ്കാരം വളർത്തിയെടുക്കുന്നതിൽ സവിശേഷമായ പങ്ക് വഹിച്ചിട്ടുള്ളവയാണ് “പൈങ്കിളി സാഹിത്യം”. മുഖ്യധാരാ ചർച്ചകളിൽ അവഗണിക്കപ്പെടുന്ന ഒരു വിഭാഗമായി അവ തുടരുന്നു. കേരളത്തിലെ പൈങ്കിളി നോവലുകളുടെ അറിയപ്പെടാത്ത സമ്പന്നമായ ലോകത്തേക്ക് കടന്നുചെല്ലുകയാണ് ഷിബു ബി എസ്.
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Pothikkettu is a monthly editorial that ‘wraps up’ the issue for our readers.
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ഭ്രമയുഗം എന്ന സിനിമയിലെ അധികാരവും അടിച്ചമർത്തലും തമ്മിലുള്ള സങ്കീർണ്ണമായ ബന്ധവും അതിനെതിരായ പ്രതിരോധവും ഫൂക്കോയുടെ സിദ്ധാന്തങ്ങളുടെ വെളിച്ചത്തിൽ അരുൺ വിശകലനം ചെയ്യുന്നു.
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Pothikkettu is a monthly editorial that ‘wraps up’ the issue for our readers.
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Billboards advertising luxury condominiums in Kochi, with their roof-top infinity pools, waterfront balconies, French windows, and Italian marble floors, are difficult to miss for any passing by the city. Reflecting on the rise of these new living spaces, Siddharth looks at what it tells us about Kerala’s changing urban space and social life, and its ties to the state’s altering migration patterns.
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