Sarita Ravindranath
Watching the Great Pied Hornbill
“So, you’re travelling 600 km in the hope of meeting someone who doesn’t really want to see you?” A friend’s question comes back to me as...
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Sarita Ravindranath
Mar 3, 20223 min read
Avirook Sen on the Aarushi case
No reporter has followed the Aarushi-Hemraj murder case like Avirook Sen has. In his best-selling book Aarushi and a series of reports...
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Sarita Ravindranath
Mar 3, 20228 min read
Mallika Srinivasan: India's tractor queen
Behind the success of many farmers across 75 countries as varied as the US, India and Yugoslavia is a woman from Chennai. Mallika...
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Sarita Ravindranath
Mar 3, 20224 min read
Five favourite Gulzar songs
He has hovered around in the background while you were at the nearest nightclub (Dhan Te Nan) or at the crossroads, worrying about your...
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Sarita Ravindranath
Mar 3, 20226 min read
I feel the safest as an actor on an Anjali Menon set: Parvathy
Late last year, actor Parvathy went where no young female actor is supposed to go - She expressed an opinion. At the IFFK, Parvathy made...
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Sarita Ravindranath
Mar 2, 202211 min read
Kiran Nagarkar on Extras, sexual repression & humourless Indians
Author Kiran Nagarkar frequently tells me he's 900 years old. I don't bother to verify, but I'm glad that for a man who feels 900, he...
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Sarita Ravindranath
Mar 2, 20227 min read
‘Indian epics have to be seen in Indian terms, not Western terms’
"The left wing and the feminists attack you if you say good things about Ram. The right wing attacks if you say bad things about Ram....
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Sarita Ravindranath
Feb 28, 20224 min read
Kerala's Women in Cinema Collective: Why their fight is important to us all
A primer on the formation of Women in Cinema Collective (WCC) and why the ramifications of the case against actor Dileep go beyond...
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Sarita Ravindranath
Feb 28, 202210 min read
These walls can't stand forever: Ali Sethi
Ali Sethi, 25, is nursing a wound when I meet him at his hotel in Chennai. The Pakistani writer isn't sure how or when he hurt his toe....
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Sarita Ravindranath
Feb 28, 202212 min read
What makes Kannur politics so violent? A journalist explores
In football-crazy Kannur district, goal scoring doesn't always refer to a triumph on the pitch. The term is also a euphemism for the...
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Sarita Ravindranath
Feb 28, 20223 min read
Pampa Biswas: Giving clothes a character
Blouses that hide bruises. A flowing skirt that blends with the wilderness. Shirts and sweaters whose fit and colours keep pace with a...
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Sarita Ravindranath
Feb 24, 20225 min read
Anjali Menon's Happy Journey
The face that launched a thousand inane questions -- Being a woman, Anjali found society was more interested in her personal life than in...
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Sarita Ravindranath
Feb 24, 20229 min read
Beautiful Thing: Leela ki jawani
As a reporter, Sonia Faleiro walked the extra mile to tell the "unseen" stories of people we find so convenient to forget or dismiss as...
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Sarita Ravindranath
Feb 23, 20228 min read
'Who's going to feed India if the farms die?'
Does it matter how much money you have if the air in your country is killing you? How does it benefit India if farmers are compelled to...
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Sarita Ravindranath
Feb 21, 20224 min read
Lost in Tranquebar: Singing waves, torrid affairs and a grand history
It's the middle of the night and I'm sandwiched between two slices of history - a 1306 AD temple and a 1620 AD fort. And I just can't...
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Sarita Ravindranath
Feb 11, 20224 min read
Murder and the Malayalee: Revisiting Yavanika
Who killed whom and why? It seems no one wants to know just that any more. The murder novel has evolved beyond answering simplistic...
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Sarita Ravindranath
Feb 9, 20226 min read
Ramayana: Lessons from Lalithambika Antharjanam's 1972 classic
The bullies from Kozhikode haven't just stopped Kerala scholar Dr MM Basheer from publishing an essay on the Ramayana. The Hanuman Sena's...
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Sarita Ravindranath
Feb 8, 20224 min read
Life ain’t like an Agatha Christie novel: Ian Rankin
For Ian Rankin, it was never enough to know who killed whom and why. Not even when he was 11. The best-selling crime fiction writer does...
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Sarita Ravindranath
Feb 7, 20225 min read
Playback singing has begun to bore me: Sonu
He is often referred to as India's best playback singer. But Sonu Niigaam, 35, says his sole agenda in life is to die a happy man -- not...
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Sarita Ravindranath
Feb 7, 202214 min read
Interview with Sudeep Chakravarti: 'Maoists have the power to implode India'
2009 interview with Sudeep Chakravarti, author of Red Sun
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