The Versatile Blogger

When was the last time you saw the trace of a civilian liberty in Gaza? How would you define the term 'liberty' when there is no such thing in the history of a nation? What effects and affects can follow a destructive series of an external attack? One cannot get rid of hundreds of such questions when he/she travels through the ever ending news pieces of the prolonged Israel-Gaza conflict. It is not just a happening in one of the world nations. But it is a terrifying strategic shift of a group of 'citizens with hearts burning with fire of rage and aggression'. Height of terror: A view of Israeli attack from Gaza strip From the point where the very first human being tasted the forbidden fruit, the whole of the conflicts forming in the universe had two parts: the all powerful dominant existence and the part that struggles for minimum existence. When a man becomes enemy to another man/woman, the circle of conflict doesn't stretch much. But wh...

Making Sense of a Newfangled Politics ASHWIN KV NAMBOODIRI listens to the various panelists at a talk show on the politics and ideology of Aam Aadmi Party and reports. Politics is a much complex phenomenon and ideologies make them further difficult to analyse. The soul of any political thought sprouts from the spark of fire for a change. Labeling an individual as a good or bad politician would be unfair, in most of the cases. These dilemmas together constituted the positive mileage of SIAS MCJ department’s talk show on ‘Making Sense of Aam Aadmi Party: Politics, Ideology and Future’. In a global sphere, surrounded by identity politics, discussions happen to fall on to the mainstream as an engaging catalyst of forming variant political manifestos. That was how the panelists and the audience were driven in to the debatable show, moderated by Nisha K,IV Semester MCJ. The Great Debaters:Panelists of the talkshow Explaining the sudden set of unanticipated factors which le...

ASHWIN KV NAMBOODIRI spends time in different venues of the 53 rd  Kerala State Youth Festival recently held in Malappuram. Photographs by SHAMNAS RAHMAN.  Malappuram: Leaving the rhythm and pace of a Pooram of arts, the curtain of Asia’s largest festival of youths fell here at Malappuram. When Kozhikode bagged the overall championship, the 53 rd  Kerala State School Youth Festival sowed seeds of hope for the next year to be held in Palakkad. There was an umpteen number of performers: young artists from across the state, all with a zeal to triumph. As usual, many performances were clichéd. However, the seven days from January 14 – January 20, 2013, remain etched as shining and glorious visual feast to the land of Mappilas. The judges as well as the viewers from every nook and corner of the world were eagerly looking for outstanding performances of students from High school and Higher Secondary sections, particularly on 15 newly introduced items ranging from  M...