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What’s in a name? Keralites will tell you
Names here often sound like a random coming together of consonants, but we Mallus have taken it in our stride because, you see, we are cool that way.
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Diwali 2022: A festive guide from fashionistas
Ethical mithai made with oats and nuts must sit gently on silver trays of antique finish or antique trays of silver finish. Anyone who bites into a piece must marvel, ‘You can just taste the honesty!’
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Sarcasm is the highest form of wit in Mallu cinema
Wit is plotting its matinee moment.
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Why not Salman Rushdie? A short story of desire and disappointment
As we wail why why why did Salman Rushdie not win the Nobel Prize for Literature, our hearts are thumping and fists clenched.
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That low feeling and the company we keep
Radiating from the mind and seizing the body, too many molecules go into making up a person for depression to be easily labelled, defined or treated.
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Ready, get set, go: Thrill of the race
The world can be a better place without elimination of healthy rivalry.
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Yummy daddy Roger Federer
He who made and continues to make so many women across all age groups weak in the knees has cited knee problems for his decision not to play Grand Slams anymore – the irony of that!
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The Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives back in botoxed avatar
The diva quartet are back, confident in their close-ups, flaunting Lilliput waists, bearing Gulliver grudges.
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Teachers' Day 2022 | To Sir, With Love…Or Hate
It takes heroes to breathe life into boring textbooks.
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Miss Universe crown to fit Mrs and mom heads too
Now, perhaps in response to gender sensitivity, everyday feminism and sheer common sense, the ban on moms and Mrs has been lifted for the Miss Universe title from 2023.
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Salman and the sea of stories
It's been more than three decades since Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against Salman Rushdie for writing 'The Satanic Verses'.
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Cinema bridging north-south divide
How Indian cinema has stopped being only Hindi cinema.
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What day is it today?
There is some enmity between July and August over the real Friendship Day – the United Nations has declared July 30 as International Friendship Day, but the first Sunday of August is also in the running.
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Rupee sheds its sexist look
Monetary wisdom is today imparted to sons and daughters alike as a life skill. Fund advisers get into our inbox with big smiles. Financial influencers – or finfluencers – have their own fan followings.
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The Butcher of Delhi: Take a thrill pill
We, the viewers of true crime shows, are always one step ahead of the murderer, and yet the murderer catches us napping – it is a cat and mouse game between them and us.
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Starry, starry night
For future generations currently in gestational mode, these photographs bring the vastness of heavens into doable telescopic nearness.
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Your call has been put on hold…
After making us wait for what feels like hours, they ask us to rate the experience, rubbing salt on a fresh wound. They give us a choice of five stars to click on, and woe is you if you click on just one.
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Comeuppance for R. Kelly, Ghislaine Maxwell
In the wake of these two landmark verdicts, each survivor stands tall today, living to tell the tale.
BUSINESS
Rupert Murdoch-Jerry Hall divorce: This business of love!
To start all over again or admit to costly matrimonial mistakes at any age is a challenge, but to do so in one’s 90s plucks ageism right out of love and life.
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Where have all the millionaires gone?
With eligible men and women eager to become the diaspora after making their mega-bucks, the traditional arranged marriage system is set to suffer the most.
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Napalm Girl: Why she never grows old
Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana said, ‘Only the dead have seen the end of war.’ The living, however, have nightmares to share.
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Depp Vs Heard: Can we handle a sequel?
Subjected to gory details, ambushed by wily lawyers, privy to close-ups of superstars, brainwashed at every step… We saw at close quarters how duets can turn into duels.
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"We knew we were making a good film": 'Pada' director Kamal
"One of the challenges we faced: how to make a non-commercial film with a big budget? We blindly believed in the script." - Kamal KM
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'The Trial', starring Johnny Depp and Amber Heard
The supporting cast is ever-changing – some cry, some quip – and the flashbacks come replete with syrupy honeymoon diary jottings and video footage of naked fury.
