Kerala’s Cauldron of Lunacy : A Political and Social Critique A century ago, Swami Vivekananda labeled Kerala a "lunatic asylum...

                                                                     WORDS   In college, we used to spend our lunch recess playing Lexicon c...

  Those days, I lived with my husband’s parents in their ancestral home in a tiny hamlet tucked a couple of kilometers from the sea—as the c...

Every child growing up is fed eerie tales of the supernatural and the shadows of the dark. So it was with me. I remember a few elderly rela...

  He was a timid, shaped by forces beyond his control. How could he be otherwise, dwarfed by self-absorbed adults who scripted his every ste...

  From a commoner's perspective, one can see that perhaps the Supreme Court did not delve into the constitutional validity of the farm ...

    As a child, I was fed tales of a bogeyman. Recalcitrant, noisy, and demanding children were warned of a certain " Hanuman Pandaram ...