Kerala

Is an Adani port devastating Kerala’s coast?
Activists say coastal communities and marine life around Kerala’s Vizhinjam Port are paying a heavy price for the Adani Group project
Bibin Joseph | Mar 25, 2023

Is Kerala’s pokkali the rice of the future?
Pokkali is one of the oldest rice varieties in Kerala. It became prominent for its salt-tolerant and flood-resistant properties and is now being pitched as a climate-adaptive crop
Sandeep Sreelekha | Feb 09, 2023

Bindu Ammini, the first woman to enter the Sabarimala temple
Four years on, the first woman to enter the Sabarimala temple, reflects on orthodoxy, police and state inaction.
Bibin Joseph | Jan 02, 2023


The subtle art of resistance
Zakariya Mohammed’s ‘Halal Love Story’ tells the story of resistance in the face of an omnipotent authority.
Ali Ahsan and Shama Jan | Feb 19, 2021

The anatomy of a torture complaint
Police brutality in India’s model state.
Urmila Pullat | Jul 01, 2020

Turning over old leaves
If palm leaf inscriptions can be saved from rodents, insects, the forces of nature and deliberate destruction, they can paint vivid pictures of the history of the Syrian Christians in Kerala.
Ignatius Payyappilly | Jan 14, 2014

Lost rulers of the Malabar Coast
Tales of love and loss from the heyday of Portuguese rule in Kochi.
N P Chekkutty | Dec 10, 2012
