Stick to 2014 motto of ‘no land, no vote’ Nearly 600 families living in makeshift shelters at Arippa in Kulathupuzha, Kollam, were not an enthused lot on the polling day. Six tiring years into the land struggle and still no […]
Seventeen years on, Mochi and Ansari have taken on a different role — speaking about the state of the nation. Together they are campaigning for CPI(M) candidate P Jayarajan, who is contesting from Vatakara constituency in North Kerala. They became […]
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala has contributed to the nation its first dalit President, K R Narayanan, and the first Chief Justice, K G Balakrishnan. But when it comes to MPs and MLAs, mainstream political parties, however, are still hesitant to field candidates […]
There are 174 registered transgender voters for the Lok Sabha elections in State On Thursday, Chinju Ashwathi filed nomination papers from Ernakulam to become the first openly intersex and transgender to contest the Lok Sabha elections in the State. This […]
SC/ST Welfare Minister A.K. Balan also echoed the same views. Sreedhanya was a student of the Kerala State Civil Services Academy in 2016-17. Thiruvananthapuram: Sreedhanya Suresh, the tribal girl from Wayanad, who secured the 401st rank in the civil services […]
Dinu K, a Dalit activist, is a I year MA Sociology student in Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady. He was harassed by two policemen on Wednesday nightParvathi Benu Two whole days have passed and Dinu K is still not […]
Chengara: There are no election campaigns or promises as they do not have voter identity cards. There’s no water, electricity, medicines, homes or toilets; but there’s poverty, malnutrition, misery and death in this neglected village. There’s no official record to […]
With memories of last year’s devastating floods still fresh in the minds of people of Kerala, they want the issue of climate change to be a dominant theme of the electoral discourse in the run-up to Lok Sabha polls beginning […]
It was called the ‘Century’s worst flood’: Nearly 500 people died and about 10 lakhs had to be evacuated as all 14 districts of Kerala were deluged between August 8 and 19. The livelihood of lakhs — especially farmers and […]
The NCERT decision to drop the section on class conflict from its Class IX history textbook — a portion that describes the Channar revolt — aptly illustrates the Sangh Parivar approach of mangling history books, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has […]
