S. Harikrishnan writes about how Malayalam cinema uses couple-and-wedding photographs as a useful plot device—to guide narrative, enhance contrast and add depth to characters.
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Dreaming Dar es Salaam: Forced Migration and the Impossibility of Return
Moving between memory and history, poetry and prose, Kerala and Tanzania, May Joseph reflects on her parents’ experiences as Malayali migrants to Tanzania in the mid-twentieth century.
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Meena Bharani: Red Devotion
K. R. Sunil captures the emotions, intensity, and the frenzied atmosphere of Kodungallur’s Meena Bharani in his series of photographs.[…]
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Have we forgotten what Migration means?
Shafeeq writes about the need to re-imagine migration through the everyday stories of those who travel, and away from the[…]
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A World in Motion: The Life and Times of the ‘Manchukkar’
K. R. Sunil’s photo exhibition, Manchukkar: The Seafarers of Malabar, tells stories of pain, sacrifice and friendship.
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Theatre of the Eyes
A photo-essay on Kutiyattam’s art of storytelling through the eyes. S. Harikrishnan Kutiyattam is the ancient tradition of Sanskrit drama performed either[…]
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