The only place that is at an elevated position is the temple, and here too, the God stands neck-deep in water. Thus begins the haunting short story ‘Vellapokkathil’ penned by Thakazhi Shiva Shankara Pillai based.
Well-known economist and author of The Crooked Timber Of New India, Dr Parakala Prabhakar says the 2024 Lok Sabha election is a fight between the ruling dispensation on one side and the people of India.
Actor trainer and performance researcher Devendranath Sankaranarayanan is the course director of Basic Acting for Children at the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. In town for a workshop at Thamp Arangu, he talks.
A half-built house, hardly 100 metres from the national highway at Vandanam in Alappuzha, remains as a grim reminder of a four-decadeold case that has attained a folklore status in the state. The dream house.
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.