Nijeesh Narayanan BLOGS
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Comrades Use Kafir Slur To Woo Sanghis
August 17, 2024, 6:47 AM IST
The CPM’s political cynicism and double dealing, long a subject of speculation, is now scandalously out in the open CPM’s assiduously cultivated image as champion of secularism, and unbending opponent of Hindutva’s polarising politics, has…
August 17, 2024, 6:47 AM IST
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Illuminati On A Shoestring
June 8, 2024, 8:40 AM IST
Dabba Beat uses discarded everyday objects—paint buckets, leather soles, PVC pipes etc—to perform some of the latest hit songs In the past in many villages in Kerala, especially in Malabar, until at least the 1970s,…
June 8, 2024, 8:40 AM IST
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ARE WE OUR OWN ENEMY?
May 11, 2024, 9:54 AM IST
The 30-odd artworks -ranging from watercolour and monochrome paintings to wooden sculptures, installations and caricatures -are haunting. The solo exhibition History Lab and the Elegy of Visceral Incantations by noted artist T V Santhosh is…
May 11, 2024, 9:54 AM IST
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Mollywood Regains Its Mojo
April 6, 2024, 10:29 AM IST
In recent years, the Malayalam film industry, renowned for its compelling storytelling and well-developed characters, has experienced a decline in artistic standards characterized by compromised content quality and shoddy filmmaking. But more than four months…
April 6, 2024, 10:29 AM IST
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Flash Black & Futuristic White
February 17, 2024, 1:14 PM IST
An aesthetic incorporating only black and white in a movie is the visual equivalent of the Silent Era. It is timeless but also fraught with risk. Mammootty’s Bramayugam managed to pull it off Legendary filmmaker…
February 17, 2024, 1:14 PM IST
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My Father, My Hero
January 6, 2024, 9:35 AM IST
“The legal fight of a daughter to get a release order for her father is to be appreciated, even if her father is an accused in several cases, including five murder cases. Just like a…
January 6, 2024, 9:35 AM IST
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Mammootty’s Dark Doppelgangers
November 25, 2023, 10:46 AM IST
In Puzhu, Mammootty cast himself as an abominable character—dark, broody, a misogynist and malevolent. In Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam, he played a half-schizophrenic, half village idiot lost in the labyrinth of his own mind. These are…
November 25, 2023, 10:46 AM IST
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Motorcycle Diaries
August 19, 2023, 9:38 AM IST
Tracing the journey of a youth from an ardent believer of the ‘system’ to a hopeless cynic, the 88-minute feature film ‘Baakki Vannavar’ (The Leftovers), made by a collective of former and present students of…
August 19, 2023, 9:38 AM IST
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‘We have played a major role in moulding a secular worldview’
June 24, 2023, 8:47 AM IST
VP Sanu, SFI national president, talks about his organization’s enduring contributions. What are SFI’s achievements as a progressive student organization in the past five decades? What is its panIndia relevance? Since its formation in 1970,…
June 24, 2023, 8:47 AM IST
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Beyond The Anthropocene
June 3, 2023, 8:35 AM IST
Most of the paintings, sculptures and cartoons on display at the Kerala Lalithakala Akademi in Kochi are experimental and demonstrate critical rigour, attention to research and socio-political sensitivities besides aesthetic and formal qualities. Portraying women…
June 3, 2023, 8:35 AM IST
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