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It’s to be a painter’s photo essay on art

Atul Dodiya is a name to reckon with in the art world, but outside the art world he is best known for his oil and acrylic work on canvas The Wall dedicated to former India cricket captain Rahul Dravid

Indira boat race a distant dream

Kochiites’ plan to set the Kochi backwaters on fire by restarting the ‘Indira Gandhi’ snake-boat race will remain a distant dream.

The efforts by GCDA and the district administration to hold the race

Goondas can now be detained for one year

The period of preventive detention is to be extended from six months to one year, as per a state government decision.

This is with a view to giving more teeth to the Kerala Anti-Social Activities (Pr

Runaway bogie halts traffic

A major tragedy was averted when a coach-bogie split from wheel trolley of the Ernakulam-Kayamkulam passenger very close to Alappuzha railway station around 11.30 am on Thursday. There were eight pass

She shows the way in story-telling

“A positive attitude and our goals can be attained,” is what Hannah Alice Simon, a nine-year-old visually-challenged girl of Greets Public School, Kaloor, had to say after winning the second prize in

Kerala lover stands exposed as breeze lifts purdah

A youth from Kannur, accompanying his girl friend disguised as another girl on a city bus in Kochi, gave some interesting moments to the police and the public here as wind played spoilsport and lifted

DYFI against Che slippers

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Flip-flops are the latest fashion statement for the youth and they stock as many available variants and designs of V-strapped rubber slippers as possible.

But, in a bizarre twist to the tale, footwe

Principal watches porn at office in Kerala, quits

Dr. R Gireeshan, principal of the Corporative Medical College in Kalamassery, quit after he was allegedly caught by students while watching porn on his office computer.

The resignation came on Wedne

JICA team to hold talks, visit Kochi Metro sites

A 10-member expert team of the Japan International Co-operative Agency which has agreed to extend a loan of Rs 2,170 crore for the Kochi Metro Rail project, arrived in the city late on Wednesday.

The

RoB projects hang fire

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The city’s two main projects aimed at easing traffic woes – Atlantis and Pachalam railway overbridges – are hanging fire. Conceived nearly two decades ago, these projects have seen alignment changes.

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.