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Apr 17, 202311 min read
Tharoor's Kerala Jaunt: A Fool's Errand or A Pragmatic Choice?
Shashi Tharoor wants to become Kerala's Chief Minister. Will Congress hand him the mantle? When Shashi Tharoor entered politics in Kerala...
Apr 14, 20215 min read
Kerala's struggles with waste management
and the half-hearted efforts by many Urban Local Bodies to combat it. One of the consequences of the great ‘Gulf Boom’ that took millions...
Feb 20, 20219 min read
Unravelling Backdoor appointments, the struggle of PSC rankholders and what ails Kerala Politics
The issue of ‘backdoor appointments’ to government and public sector jobs have animated politics in the state. What is the reality of the...
Dec 22, 202012 min read
The Great Red Resurgence
An Analysis of the 2020 Kerala Local Body Elections A jubilant Chief Minister Pinrayi Vijayan with other LDF leaders: Communist Party of...
Dec 12, 20205 min read
The Inevitable Death of Two Front Politics in Kerala
K. Karunakaran (UDF) and E.K. Naynar (LDF) who were the scions of the two fronts in the 1980s and 1990s. Since the Assembly elections in...
Sep 20, 20205 min read
Communist Green, Gold and Red
Communist Green (Chromolaena odorata) an invasive plant species, seen in Road sides of Kerala The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has...
Apr 4, 20202 min read
Regarding Disaster Relief Fund allotment to Kerala
A brand new controversy has broken out regarding the allocation of disaster relief funds to States in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak....
Sep 8, 20192 min read
The aesthetics of Onam
If you were to take a walk in any of the cities or towns of Kerala this past Thursday or Friday, you would see a higher than usual...
Nov 14, 20174 min read
Industrialization: an examination of land usage in Kerala
An article examining land usage in Kerala and the question of industrialization. A paddy field in Kozhikode. Paddy production has...
Jun 20, 20173 min read
Kerala: The “Money Order economy”, indeed.
But what if the money order never got through? Kerala’s Economic growth since the late 80s has been the product of a remittance economy....
Jun 19, 20172 min read
Walking back my arguments against the Light Metro
The proposal for the Light metro will follow the same track as the first proposed Monorail. In view of the Kochi Metro being inaugurated...
Mar 26, 20172 min read
Is a light metro necessary for Kozhikode?
The Kerala Budget has focused itself on investing in “high class infrastructure” to be engines of growth. A variety of projects are to be...
Mar 24, 20174 min read
Reviewing Public Sector Employment in Kerala
I had written an article on Swarajya almost a month ago, about PSUs in Kerala and how Public Sector Employment is viewed in the state. I...
Mar 22, 20173 min read
100 crores for building theaters and 10 crores for Library Council: Warped Priorities?
Kerala has one of the leading HDIs in the Country, which is even comparable to developed nations. The continuous investments in the...
Mar 20, 20174 min read
KSRTC: Is there a way forward?
The Finance Minister of Kerala, Mr. Thomas Issac has provided a special package to the perpetually Loss making KSRTC, in a bid to revive...
Oct 10, 201610 min read
God’s Own Polity
Originally appeared on the NUALS Observer During the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, one of BJP’s (read Modi’s) key campaign themes was to...