Kochi (Kerala) [India], (ANI): Drama unfolded outside the Aluva police station in Kochi when a transgender woman climbed up a banyan tree and threatened to end her life after she and her friends were allegedly attacked by a group of […]
Photographer K.R. Sunil, through four of his photo series, captures instants of Kerala in all its condensed stillness. His works point to changes in the surroundings, capture alternate ways of being, focus on the marginalised or alienated lives and bring […]
Kochi (Kerala) [India], December 26 (ANI): Malaysian-American artist and transgender activist Anne Samat has said that any bid to malign the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, which is a great cultural activity that touches every sphere of life, doesn’t suit an artist. “There […]
Hiran M Prakash, a Dalit lecturer at the Devaswom Board College Keezhoor in Kerala’s Kottayam district, had to fight for 10 months to get a chargesheet filed on his complaint filed in February 2022 against his college principal, CM Kusuman, […]
Students of a national film institute in Kerala have decided to go on an indefinite hunger strike from December 25 as part of intensifying their nearly three week long stir against alleged discrimination. Incidentally, the institute named after the country’s […]
A film institute in Kerala, named after the first Dalit President of India KR Narayanan, is currently witnessing days-long protests by students who have accused the institute’s director Shankar Mohan of indulging in caste discrimination. Mohan took charge of the […]
For the past five years, Anandapadmanabhan, a former cinematography student at the KR Narayanan National Institute of Visual Science and Arts, at Thekkumthala, in Kottayam, Kerala has been fighting to complete his course requirements. For that, he needs to be […]
The students council of the KR Narayanan National Institute of Visual Science and Arts (KRNNIVSA), an autonomous institution based in Kottayam, has released an open letter condemning veteran film director Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s dismissal of the caste discrimination allegations against the […]
Holding placards proclaiming ‘Education is our birth right’. over a hundred students from tribal and scheduled caste communities took out a protest march from Gandhi Square near Rajendra Maidan in Kochi to High Court Junction on Saturday, December 10. The […]
The Kerala Catholic Bishops Council (KCBC) had recently asked the country’s federal government not to oppose moves to extend reservation quotas to Dalit Christians and Muslims across India. KCBC unanimously approved on Dec. 7 a resolution that it aims to […]
