#Kerala

Feb 20, 2021
9 min

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...

Feb 14, 2021
3 min

Another Assault on the Tantri, Temple And Tradition.

From An Unknown Utsavam, Credits: Mathrubhumi The inherent dissonance in the State Government(s) running Hindu Religious Institutions and...

Dec 22, 2020
12 min

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 14, 2020
4 min

Can HR & CE Departments be secular?

No, they cannot. On the recent decision of the Karnataka High Court to dismiss two petitions challenging the appointment of two...

Dec 12, 2020
5 min

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, 2020
5 min

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, 2020
2 min

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, 2019
2 min

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, 2017
4 min

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, 2017
3 min

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....

May 27, 2017
2 min

No beef hasn’t been banned.

The recent notification by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change has run into controversy as it restricts the sale of...

Apr 9, 2017
4 min

What you think is not the last word on things.

Written in response to “The cow is not our mother, Hindutva means nothing to us”: A devout and ‘proud’ Malayali Hindu” This article was...

Mar 29, 2017
3 min

A welcome break for Kerala

The Transport Minister of Kerala Shri A.K. Saseendran resigned on Sunday, just hours after a newly launched private channel aired an...

Mar 26, 2017
2 min

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, 2017
4 min

Reviewing Public Sector Employment in Kerala

The Public Sector is no longer the primary employer in the organized sector. I had written an article on Swarajya almost a month ago,...

Mar 22, 2017
3 min

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 21, 2017
2 min

Kerala’s Budget exposes the state’s lacunae in acquiring land.

The 2016–17 Kerala Budget has been in the news including international media for promising a “right to internet” forget that it is by and...