Rajesh Kumar

Life As It Is |

The best of political debates in Kerala, and perhaps India, happen not in television studios or our legislature, but in Karunan's barber shop and Kuttan's ...
01:45 PM, Mar 06, 2013

Achyuth Punnekat

A Mallu's Musings |

"No one can overhaul KSRTC," is the quip... Not from disgruntled passengers but the head of government in Kerala himself. Oommen Chandy's public admission throws ...
01:19 AM, Oct 13, 2012

Achyuth Punnekat

A Mallu's Musings |

It is not very often you see city authorities providing drinking water and other facilities to people on protest against a ruling government. But in ...
11:24 PM, Oct 08, 2012

Achyuth Punnekat

A Mallu's Musings |

Of all the harebrained schemes I've ever heard in my life (and trust me, I cook up many myself), this one probably deserves a citation ...
06:23 PM, Oct 07, 2012

Achyuth Punnekat

A Mallu's Musings |

When I was a kid growing up in the sleepy (at that time!) little town of Palakkad, my teacher once asked me to make a ...
11:46 PM, Oct 02, 2012

Achyuth Punnekat

A Mallu's Musings |

Oommen Chandy recently gave Air India Express a mild heart attack by suggesting that Kerala is relooking at launching its own flag carrier (Kerala has ...
12:24 AM, Sep 27, 2012

R Radhakrishnan Nair

Just a thought |

Defence Minister A K Antony made some rare interventions in Parliament over the last two days after the Army Chief Gen V K Singh spoke ...
05:36 PM, Mar 28, 2012

James Wilson

Dateline Kerala |

In this post, I want to discuss about the 'Precautionary Principle', which is the basis of the new dam offered by Kerala. Kerala is strongly ...
01:52 PM, Nov 30, 2011

Dakshina Muraleedharan

Southsayer |

Things were going well for Oommen Chandy after the initial hiccups of forming a UDF government with the macho allies. His ambitious 100-day governance program ...
04:29 PM, Aug 10, 2011

Pallavi Ghosh

Pallavi's space |

Not many noticed when Sonia Gandhi quietly made Digvijaya Singh in-charge of Assam last month. Despite the general perception that Congress has no real opponent ...
12:48 PM, Mar 15, 2011

Jaimon Joseph

Connect |

I was born in a tiny hospital in Kottayam district, Kerala, thirty-two years ago. Electric lights had still not reached my mom's village then. Telephones ...
01:43 PM, May 24, 2010