A Kerala Studies Blog
Native Ball playfully blurs fact and fiction through understated text and images, inviting readers to question how truth is constructed. Shubhra Dixit reflects on how Anup Mathew Thomas uses the familiar language of reportage to create a thoughtful, quietly intriguing portrait of place, memory and belief.
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Greeshma C. P explores the evolution of the “photographer-hero” in Malayalam cinema, tracing how the camera symbolically shapes modern Malayali masculinity; from morally upright observers to tragic figures, these characters reveal the tensions between modernity, patriarchy, and cinematic identity.
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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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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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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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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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K. R. Sunil’s photo exhibition, Manchukkar: The Seafarers of Malabar, tells stories of pain, sacrifice and friendship.
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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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