Jul 19, 2021 The Club House debates, in general, throw up pictures of a Malayali society that is making giant strides towards a more emancipatory future. They also present its worse detractors – zealots of all hues.
Jun 30, 2021 Vidhu Vincent’s nuanced graphic memoir on the Emergency examines that nadir of political practice through its warm, puzzling embrace in Kerala and the rebels who dared to say nay
Dec 19, 2018 Shajahan Madampat writes a diary about his visit to Poland, meeting with Lech Walesa and the visit to World War II Museum.
Mar 13, 2015 As self-righteous misanthropes go, the Times Now chief is in the pantheon
Apr 04, 2020 In a nation perennially in search of a new Muslim villain for every novel occasion, in this case the ‘novel Coronavirus’ occasion, the morons who congregated in Nizamuddin did not disappoint at all.
Apr 04, 2020 The new political formation of Muslims should eschew religious symbols and slogans, and instead, choose symbols and icons of Indian nationhood
Mar 27, 2020 The political situation is so completely pitted against the community that extremist elements wanting to fish in troubled waters will find their task much easier, writes Shahjahan Madampat
Feb 21, 2020 Irreverent, hard-hitting, extremely creative trolls have become the most effective means of political communication among the Malayalees. They entertain, educate and make people think.
Feb 11, 2020 They have elected forces that, according to a BJP MP, could have let loose rapists into every home in the national capital. What kind of a people are the Delhites, asks Shajahan Madampat.
Jan 24, 2020 A 36-year-old man planted a bomb at Mangalore Airport because he was depressed due to the unemployment. But could denial of a job be only instigation for him to contemplate such a dangerous act?
Dec 21, 2019 At the root of the whole divisive BJP politics is its barely concealed design to marginalise, disenfranchise and intimidate the Muslims in the country.
Nov 21, 2019 JNU VC deserves our compliments for his thick-skinned persistence with his mission and his unwavering loyalty to his masters, writes Shajahan Madampat.
Nov 11, 2019 Had the verdict been in favour of the Muslim party, it could never have been implemented. We cannot always condone the willful disregard of our apex court’s orders, like in the Sabarimala verdict.
Oct 23, 2019 I have always believed that one kind of communalism invariably feeds into the other, forming a symbiotic ecosystem of destructiveness.
Oct 11, 2019 A cursory look at Putin’s Middle East maneuvers shows up the man as the cleverest player among the big powers competing for influence in the region.
Sep 27, 2019 ‘The Tale of the Boy Who Never Laughed’ is a parable that tells the reader that it is important for Arabs and Muslims to learn to approach life and world more intellectually than sentimentally.
Sep 11, 2019 I have no one to blame but the current administration of Jawaharlal Nehru University that left no stone unturned in their sadomasochistic assault on one of India’s finest seats of learning.
Aug 30, 2019 Accusing Shashi Tharoor of being pro-Modi or pro-Hindutva is almost as ‘blasphemous’ as charging Modi with a pro-Muslim bias.
Feb 20, 2019 This week, a diary from Abu Dhabi on the visit of the Pope and the Imam and the 'new symbolic tolerance'.
Feb 01, 2019 In the history of the papacy, it is the first-ever visit by a Pope to the Arabian Peninsula, where Islam was born.
Nov 28, 2018 They are demagogues who have cunningly used fear and disaffection. This book shows how Trump and Modi brought their world-view to India-US ties.
Mar 29, 2018 However uncalled for the comparison is, Guha has triggered a debate that hits at the community’s core deficiencies
Aug 31, 2017 Muslims can fight foes, but who will save them from friends?
Aug 10, 2017 Kerala Muslims have largely followed the path of peace—it’s been one century free of violence. Of late, extremism is rearing its head, but the literate state still has the antibodies.
