K A Shaji is a senior assistant editor of Outlook magazine, covering all South Indian states. A native of Wayanad in Kerala, he has been reporting mainly on politics, governance, environment, human Rights, tribal affairs, and developmental disparities across the region for over a quarter century.
An atheist party invoking a forest god, a rationalist leader invited to inaugurate a summit of faith, and a saffron brigade baying for blood. The CPM’s Global Ayyappa Sangamam was supposed to heal the wounds of Sabarimala. Instead, it has exposed a theatre of contradictions
He rose from labour camps to literary syllabuses, from YouTube to Malayalam cinema. His rap gave Kerala’s margins a voice. But today, as multiple women accuse him of sexual assault and abuse, Vedan’s future—and his music—hangs in an uneasy balance between protest and perpetration.
As India’s shrimp powerhouse, Andhra Pradesh had the most to lose—and it responded the quickest to the tariff blow
What should have been a proud cultural moment for Karnataka has spiralled into a political storm over the state government's decision to invite Booker Prize-winning Kannada writer Banu Mushtaq to inaugurate this year’s Mysuru Dasara celebrations
Why Kuttimathan Kani, who gave the world Arogyapacha, died poor and betrayed by the very systems that hailed him as a hero.
Against the backdrop of the massive Madurai conference with a claimed participation of four lakh supporters, actor Vijay has begun to test Tamil Nadu’s political waters
Former Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao and ex-Irrigation Minister T. Harish Rao challenge Justice P. C. Ghose Commission findings as the state reels under structural flaws, ballooning debt, and political upheaval
The US-reliant shrimp export market from India will have hunger stalking fishing villages even as ponds and storage facilities fill up with export-quality shrimp.
CP Radhakrishnan has risen from the Tamil Nadu heartland to the contest for the second-highest constitutional office.
The proposed 20 to 26 per cent tariff on marine products, especially shrimp, risk job losses that could send an economic shock along India’s coast.
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