COVER STORY
Rarely has gender been so central to a political battle
Outlook Magazine - 3 December 2018
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On Sabarimala temple entry, the Supreme Court displayed excessive disregard for a tradition followed by generations of devotees
Sabarimala was the perfect trigger for savarna and masculine trauma, festering under its social skin, to erupt in Kerala
Kerala-based writer and orator Sunil P. Elayidom speaks to Outlook about SC verdict on Sabarimala.
Not so very long ago, Sabarimala would have been an unknown entity outside Kerala. Now, this debate over gender bristles with implications on a host of questions relating to society, politics, law and religion across India.
On the heels of Ram bhakts aboard a careworn train on an epic journey, where workaday discomfiture is swept away by timely tides of devotion
In Mumbai, the tax tribunal rules ‘discretionary beneficiaries’ of Swiss bank accounts can go tax free
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On Sabarimala temple entry, the Supreme Court displayed excessive disregard for a tradition followed by generations of devotees
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Sabarimala was the perfect trigger for savarna and masculine trauma, festering under its social skin, to erupt in Kerala
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Kerala-based writer and orator Sunil P. Elayidom speaks to Outlook about SC verdict on Sabarimala.
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The idea of a Puranic deity is being challenged by the Mala Arayan story
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Not so very long ago, Sabarimala would have been an unknown entity outside Kerala. Now, this debate over gender bristles with implications on a host of questions relating to society, politics, law and religion across India.
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On the heels of Ram bhakts aboard a careworn train on an epic journey, where workaday discomfiture is swept away by timely tides of devotion
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India is on top in its rivalry with China over influence in Maldives
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In Mumbai, the tax tribunal rules ‘discretionary beneficiaries’ of Swiss bank accounts can go tax free
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A wedding card with a 'Bti Bachao Beti Padhao' message and a 'tail' of a tale in Bangladesh that created trouble. Read this and more in The Subcontinental Menu this week.
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A regular column on the essential buzz
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Within its slim girth, this book charts out reforms to set right our ailing polity and administration to extirpate corruption and poor governance
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In their self-reflexivity and referential nature, Ramayana and Mahabharata lie in unique harmony. Which came first is matter of which version you hold up to the light.
