Ayyappan R

Thiruvananthapuram

Why Marx, Lenin and EMS would approve of CPM leader MV Govindan's Sabarimala dialectics

Dialectical materialism, as Marx and Engels saw it, does not shun spiritualism. It is just that these philosophers looked at it from a material point of view.

Thiruvananthapuram
Reviving Sabarimala sentiment could backfire for Congress. Here is why

Nothing could be more self-destructive for Congress than to make it seem that the coming Assembly election is a choice is between the 'progressive' LDF and two faith-based parties, the other being the BJP.
Thiruvananthapuram
Kerala Poll Special: How the CPM used anti-Muslim sentiment to get closer to the Church

The CPM seems to have found in the first, in the growing Christian-Muslim divide, an opportunity to remould its attitude towards the Church.
Thiruvananthapuram
After the October explosion, is Kerala on the brink of a second COVID-19 surge

The new year began with a TPR that was marginally less than 9 per cent, and for most part of the month, till January 19, the TPR never went above 10 per cent.
Thiruvananthapuram
Kerala gold smuggling scandal no more has the edge to cut CPM to size

The charges set off by the exposure of the gold smuggling racket were aimed at tarnishing the image of the chief minister. But the chief minister responded as if Kerala was in serious trouble.
Thiruvananthapuram
Analysis | Isaac the Illusionist. Why the FM's claim of fiscal prudence is just a number trick

This was the first time Kerala recorded a negative growth rate in tax collection in the last half-century.
Thiruvananthapuram
Southern Railway miffed as Silver Line project threatens its expansion plans

The Southern Railway, in a communique sent to the KRDCL on June 10, 2020, said the alignment it has proposed for the high-speed rail would affect existing, sanctioned and proposed Southern Railway projects.

Ayyappan R

Why Marx, Lenin and EMS would approve of CPM leader MV Govindan's Sabarimala dialectics

Reviving Sabarimala sentiment could backfire for Congress. Here is why

Kerala Poll Special: How the CPM used anti-Muslim sentiment to get closer to the Church

After the October explosion, is Kerala on the brink of a second COVID-19 surge

Kerala gold smuggling scandal no more has the edge to cut CPM to size

Analysis | Isaac the Illusionist. Why the FM's claim of fiscal prudence is just a number trick

Southern Railway miffed as Silver Line project threatens its expansion plans

Analysis | Growing Christian-Muslim alienation, Kerala civic polls and Kunhalikutty's Christmas cake diplomacy

A truthful thief, an unlikely confession and a secret surgery: How a priest and a nun were sentenced to life

God's Own Twenty20: Ways COVID-19 changed the way Malayali lives

Analysis | How CPM blocked the onward march of BJP in Thiruvananthapuram

Ground Report | A Kerala ward fully hidden inside border villages of Tamil Nadu