RLV Ramakrishnan says he wants to perform Mohiniyattam at every stage in Kerala to protest against racist slurs

RLV Ramakrishnan says he wants to perform Mohiniyattam at every stage in Kerala to protest against racist slurs

Dancer and academic RLV Ramakrishnan wants to perform Mohiniyattam at every stage in Kerala. “That is how I plan to protest against the racist and casteist slurs made against me,” says Ramakrishnan in an interview with The Hindu. Reacting to the unseemly remarks made by a veteran Mohiniyattam dancer and teacher, the 46-year-old dancer says […]

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This Kochi lit fest is run by a residents’ association

This Kochi lit fest is run by a residents’ association

Curating and organising a lit-fest is no mean task, especially if the organiser is a residents’ association of 320-odd members, without huge funds or an army of volunteers. Come February 23, when the curtains go up on the second edition of Festival of Thought, Thripunithura’s Kottakkakam Residents’ Association (KRA) would have pulled it off twice. This […]

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Two migrant workers crushed to death as concrete slab collapses during building demolition

Two migrant workers crushed to death as concrete slab collapses during building demolition

The deceased were identified as Sushanth Kumar, 38, and Sankar, 28, both residents of Odisha The deceased were identified as Sushanth Kumar, 38, and Sankar, 28, both residents of Odisha Two migrant workers were crushed to death when the concrete slab of a two-storey house they were demolishing came crashing down on them in Maradu […]

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