N P Chekkutty
Taking on a behemoth
The life story of Katharine Gerrard Cooke (1695-1745) evokes the struggles faced by the early English pioneers in India. (Part 2)
Feb 22, 2016
A massacre at the seaside
The life story of Katharine Gerrard Cooke (1695-1745) evokes the struggles faced by the early English pioneers in India. (Part 1)
Feb 19, 2016
Hell on Ascension
The story of Cochin’s Robinson Crusoe – found guilty of sodomy and banished to Ascension Island.
Mar 19, 2015
The life and letters of Elizabeth Draper
The world celebrated the tercentenary of writer Laurence Sterne (1713- 1768) in 2013. A tribute to the woman who inflamed his passions, Eliza, born in a remote south Indian village.
Mar 13, 2014
Lost rulers of the Malabar Coast
Tales of love and loss from the heyday of Portuguese rule in Kochi.
Dec 10, 2012
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In ‘Agra’, a grim portrait of the repressed Indian man
Director Kanu Behl’s Hindi feature film examines the sexual obsession and frustration of men, mental health and the transactional nature of human relationships in a patriarchal society where space is in short supply
When neoliberalism came to the Indian farm
With a focus on agricultural policy since the 1990s, 'Distress in the Fields' demonstrates how neoliberal interventions sowed the seeds of the crisis faced by farmers today
