The State of Statelessness : The Pakistani Migrants in Kerala
26 Year-old Mafeeda was born in Kannur District of Kerala, where she lives now. Though she was born in India, she is not a…
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Pattanam: A Dig Too Deep For The Samgh
70 year old Gopi, a daily wage worker at Pattanam in Ernakulam District of Kerala is proud of himself that he was part of…
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A Young Girl’s Brutal Murder, And An 18-Year Perseverance For Justice
About two decades ago, a couple from Kodagu in Karnataka, mired in poverty, sent their teenage daughter to work as a babysitter; unimaginable tragedy…
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The Right to Exit Gracefully: The Tales of Living Wills
Despite the Supreme Court’s landmark judgment legalising Living Wills in India, Kerala is currently the only state where these wills are actively signed. In…
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After Losing Their Children To Tsunami, This Couple Took It Upon Themselves To Adopt Orphan Children
The killer waves of the 2004 tsunami washed the entire family away except for Karibeeran and his wife. They later turned their two-storied house…
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Kerala: Devil’s Own Country
The Kerala government wants to stop the state’s obsession with the occult with a law against superstition. Can black magic be contained? N FEBRUARY…
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ASHA Workers : Navigating the Pandemic
Says Thahira Sudheer, a community health worker, Kerala Towards the end of the conversation, I asked a series of questions of Thahira Sudheer. What…
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A Conversion that Shook the Nation
The ordeal of Akhila-Hadiya IT TOOK SEVERAL days of waiting and repeated phone calls to get an opportunity to visit the home of Hadiya.…
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The Castaways: The Life of Sri Lankan Refugees
They fled home only to be confined to subhuman conditions in the so-called special camps of Tamil Nadu N 5 MAY 2014, Ramekka fled…
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‘In Coversation with the Dead: The Woman at the Crematorium
Sudha Krishnadas, a 47-year-old woman, has been working at a crematorium for the past four years. Previously employed in a glove manufacturing unit within…
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