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Caught between Myth and History: The Case of Pattanam and Muziris

31st January 2023 Issue 52

Nimmi brings together the Pattanam excavation and the subsequent cultural reimagination of Muziris to present how history and myth come alive through art.

[Podcast] Rethinking ‘Keraleeyatha’: Language, Identity, Modernity

31st December 2022 Issue 51

പത്തൊൻപതാം നൂറ്റാണ്ടിലും ഇരുപതാം നൂറ്റാണ്ടിന്റെ തുടക്കത്തിലും ഉയർന്നുവന്ന കേരളത്തിലെ ഭാഷയെയും ആധുനികതയെയും പറ്റിയുള്ള സംവാദങ്ങളെക്കുറിച്ചും ലിന്റോ ഫ്രാൻസിസ് പ്രതിപാദിക്കുന്നു.

[Podcast] Rethinking ‘Keraleeyatha’: Anti-Caste Rhetoric in Medieval Literature

31st July 2022 Issue 46

Why do we see ‘modernity’ as something that emerged only in the colonial era? What do the three medieval texts tell us about alternative strands of literature? Why do we mainstream some histories while marginalizing others? In this episode, we discuss these questions with Prof. T.T. Sreekumar.

Pandit P Gopalan Nair and Captain Braithwaite: The Story of an Unlikely Friendship

30th June 2022 Issue 45

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.

പുലയത്തറയിലെ അടിയാള ജീവിതങ്ങൾ

30th November 2021 Issue 39

ദളിത് ക്രൈസ്തവ ജീവിതാനുഭവങ്ങളെകുറിച്ച് 1962 ൽ പ്രസിദ്ധീകരിച്ച ഒരു കൃതി ഇന്നും പ്രസക്തമാകുന്നതിനെക്കുറിച്ചു സിതാര എഴുതുന്നു.

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.

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