“Secularism in India faces manifold challenges that require multilevel interventions to make it socially relevant and sustainable,” according to Irfan Engineer, noted Human Rights activist and Director, Centre for the Study of Society and Secularism, Mumbai. Engineer was speaking...
The health experts who spoke at a meeting in an Inter University Centre in Mahatma Gandhi University all agreed that the COVID-19 situation in Kerala has now reached a critical phase which calls for greater vigilance and concerted efforts...
“Documentaries are art forms of political memory making and a nation devoid of documentaries is like a family without any photo albums,” says Priya Thuvassery, a Delhi-based independent documentary maker and producer of widely discussed films like ‘Coral Woman.’...
Local bodies in Kerala are set to undergo performance ranking in the state based on a set of criteria which would include the performance of Jagratha Samithis at different levels, says Sri. MB Rajesh, Minister for Local Self Government....
“Part of the hydro-social cycle, human and animal bodies are inextricably linked with the water bodies, and the inland waterways are thus liquid and hybrid places that come to exist through mobilities, materialities and convivial interactions,” according to Maarja...
“Water-society relations have been produced by politics and power relations that have become entrenched and materialised in built infrastructure over space and time,” according to Patrick Martel, a researcher and the EPIC Durban Coordinator from the School of Built...
“Theyyam as a folk genre and performance is a creative and ritual invocation of the people who had been killed and silenced by the hegemonic structures of social power,” according to Dr. Rajesh Komath, a faculty in Social...
“Though Kerala model of local governance is a mixed bag of achievements and setbacks, the State has shown the right way by reaching out to the last man in terms of localising the sustainable development goals (SDGs),” according to...
Vakkom Moulavi Memorial and Research Centre (VMMRC) is organizing a Special Lecture and Discussion on “The Palestine Question and West Asian Politics” in association with the Institute for Global South Studies and Research (IGSSR).  The Web-Lecture—scheduled to be held...
Vakkom Moulavi Memorial and Research Centre (VMMRC) is organizing a Special Lecture and Discussion on “Afghanistan: Geopolitics of Impasse” in association with the Institute for Global South Studies and Research (IGSSR). The Web-Lecture—scheduled to be held at 7.00 PM...