A Kerala Studies Blog
‘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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Editorials about women in public theatre in The Svadeshabhimani give us important clues about am emerging caste-gender order.
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A retrospective in his native Kerala displays Abu Abraham’s many creative tensions – as cartoonist and parliamentarian, patriot and cosmopolitan[…]
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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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In light of a lack of conventional historical sources, Sadik weaves a cultural and Islamic history of Tirurangadi using available archival materials and oral narratives from his fieldwork.
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In this reflective account on the women’s football in Kerala, Amritha shares her uneasy feelings around the less visible Kerala Women’s League.
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Ala speaks to Ruchi Chaturvedi, whose book, Violence of Democracy, published this year, draws on years of engagement with political violence in north Kerala to think about the forms of violence produced by the very practice of democracy.
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Accompanied by original sketches, Gaya Hadiya shares her experiences of chayakkadas in Kerala, highlighting how they reflect the gender, caste and class relations in the region.
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As cinema halls in Kerala emerge as sites of pandemic control, Bindu Menon explores a longer history of how moralized notions of public health and contagion played out in Kerala’s cinema halls, and through film as medium.
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For three decades now, regional media has brokered public engagement with science and opened a new sphere for political deliberation[…]
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