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Wards of migrant workers at SNHSS Thrikkanarvattom in Kochi.

Project for schooling of migrant children at a crossroads

Migrant students at SNHSS Thrikkanarvattom in Kochi.

What’s discourse oriented pedagogy?

After a sizzling summer, pre-monsoon clouds gather over the skies at Manjapara, near Sulthan Bathery, in Wayanad district.

Kerala spotlight | Awaiting monsoon with hope and dread

Panic in human habitations: New villain on the block?

Illustratiion for The Hindu

Substance abuse in Kerala | On a high, at a social cost

Cinema posters displayed at MG Road in Kochi. Despite the steady number of new releases, only a few pass the test at the box-office. Only one movie out of the over 75 movies released since January 2023 clicked, showing the downward trend in the multi-crore Malayalam film industry.

Not a rosy picture on the silver screen in Kerala

G. Krishnakumar

Gulikan theyyam at a sacred grove in Kasaragod.

Green fading away to dull grey

Adarsh B. Pradeep

Soaking up the luxury: Enjoying an energising splash of water at a theme park at Malampuzha, near Palakkad, on a hot summer day.

Palakkad sweats, but escapes with moderate discomfort

Abdul Latheef Naha

Here flowed the Nila: This year, the Bharathapuzha had dried up months ahead of the peak summer season. A view near Ottappalam in Palakkad.

Heat rains down on Kerala

Malayalis touring the world this summer

Domestic tourists hill stations bound

Dhinesh Kallungal

Visitors look at a community art project from north-western Bangladesh in the village of Balia ‘Bhumi’ at the 2023 Kochi-Muziris Biennale. The biennale is one of Asia’s biggest contemporary art festivals.

Going gets tougher for Kochi biennale

Priyadarshini S.

Shubigi Rao, curator of the just-concluded edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale. File.

Kochi biennale: An act of coming together, of building community

The KBF is learnt to have spent about ₹17.16 crore for the edition and the total expenditure is estimated to be around ₹19.5 crore

It’s a tight rope walk for Kochi biennale foundation

Activists of the Vilappilsala Janakeeya Samithi and local people carry out a victory march after the district administration withdrew the police force deployed at the panchayat to facilitate the reaching of the equipment for the leachate treatment plant to the solid waste treatment of the city corporation at Vilappilsala.

Accidental shift to decentralised waste management helps Thiruvananthapuram

The Brahmapuram fiasco remains a classic case of how authorities have failed to resolve the long-standing issue of waste management in the commercial capital of Kerala. Fire and Rescue Services personnel toiling to put out the smoke during the recent fire breakout at the waste treatment plant.

Brahmapuram fire exposes gaps in waste management

G. Krishnakumar

An artist imaginmation of the Vaikom Satyagraha

Satyagraha that heralded modernism in Kerala

Fire and Rescue Services personnel trying to douse the fire at a fireworks manufacturing unit in Kundannur, Thrissur. The accident on January 30 claimed a life.

Mayhem, sparked by storage on the sly

G. Krishnakumar

A view of firecracker storage explosion site at Muttinakam in Varapuzha, near Kochi. The blast on February 28 claimed one life.

When festivities go up in flames

Mini Muringatheri

Mari, a tribal woman of Murikkilery Oorali tribal hamlet. The woman became mentally upset after she missed her three daughters during the police firing at Muthanga. Though the children were jailed they were yet to get compensation.

Struggle for land not over for tribespeople of Muthanga

A scene from the drama She Archive performed as part of the Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishad’s Statewide foot march in Kochi.

A long march for Kerala and science

After being evicted for the Vallarpadam ICTT project, P.T. Francis has been residing at his sister’s home for the past 15 years.

15 years on, no succour for Moolampilly evictees

About 20% of the widening work has been completed on the three
major stretches of the National Highway-66 in Kozhikode district.

National Highway works in Kerala finally on track

Representational image of eateries in Fort Kochi, Kerala

Eating out, a walk on eggshells in Kerala

G. Krishnakumar

Image for representation only

How food becomes poison

Representational image of food safety officials inspecting a roadside eatery

Food safety officials grapple with lack of facilities, staff shortage

A view of vessels stationed at the houseboat terminal at the Punnamada Finishing Point in Alappuzha.

Kerala’s houseboat sector in uncharted waters

Rescue operation under way at the Kannitta boat jetty after a houseboat sank in the backwaters on June 11, 2022.

Kerala Maritime Board with skeletal staff struggles to ensure legal, safety compliance

Illustration: Satheesh Vellinezhi

Medical negligence remains a reality

Illustration: Satheesh Vellinezhi

Battered and bruised | Tensions at Kerala hospitals

A herd of wild elephants drinking water from the Anakkulam river.

Anakkulam presents a different picture

Sandeep Vellaram

A tusker in the Suryanelli hills near Chinnakkanal.

An elephantine issue in Munnar

Sandeep Vellaram

Illustration: Satheesh Vellinezhi

POCSO survivors left in the lurch

Aspinwall House, main venue of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in Kochi.

Search is on for a permanent venue

Priyadershini S

Aspinwall House, the main venue of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in Kochi.

Out of the blues, emerges Biennale

Priyadershini S

For a better deal: Online food delivery workers take out a march to the zonal office of Swiggy in Kochi
recently. They have been on a strike for over ten days seeking higher wages. Dealing with a faceless system has been the biggest challenge for workers in the sector, they say.

Labour pain: why food delivery agents are up in arms

Wearing jerseys of their favorite teams, youngsters taking out a country boat ride in the Kadalundipuzha at Anakkayam, near Malappuram, on Thursday, heralding the FIFA World Cup beginning in Qatar on Sunday.

Kerala’s love for soccer belies developmental shortcomings

The Avalappandi Canal, near Perambra, in Kozhikode has turned pink due to massive flowering of the invasive alien species Red Cabomba. It chokes the waterbodies ecologically and economically, affecting the growth of native aquatic plants and freshwater fish. Red Cabomba has been found in seven rivers and two lakes in the southern Western Ghats alone. Native to Central and South America, it is a popular aquarium plant.

Alien invasion of a different kind: How exotic pets are threatening Kerala’s biodiversity

Mini Muringatheri

Members of a rapid response team preparing to cull ducks at Vazhuthanam, near Haripad, last week.

Kuttanad feverish following bird flu outbreak

A farmer guides his ducks through the Pampa river at SN Kadavu near Karuvatta.

Reluctance of airlines to ship samples delays testing

Kerala Forest Department officers setting a trap to capture a tiger in Munnar

A sense of unease in Idukki plantations with a ‘spike’ in attacks on cattle

Sandeep Vellaram

The tiger that was captured from Mananthavady municipality limits in Wayanad district earlier this year

Free-roaming big cats maul farmers’ livelihood in Wayanad

Knee-jerk reactions won’t do, a one-time plan is crucial, says wildlife expert

A wild elephant crossing the railway track at Kottekkad, Palakkad.

Elephants meet with a gory end on rail tracks in Kerala

Abdul Latheef Naha

Image used for representational purpose only.

MVD powerless to stop vehicle stunts on social media

Dhinesh Kallungal

A view of Ashtamudi Lake in Kollam.

On cards, a piscine apocalypse in Kerala

Illustration: Satheesh Vellinezhi

Rising aspirations aiding higher education abroad

G. Krishnakumar

A rubber plantation in the eastern high ranges of Kottayam.

Fortunes are stretching a bit too thin for rubber

A farmer packing the rambutan harvested from a fruit farm at Mukkoottuthara near Erumely, Kottayam district.

Why many Kerala farmers are ditching cash crops like rubber for rambutan and other exotic fruits

Danger zone: (from left) A view of the Adoormala hillside where a landslip struck last month

Kerala landslips | On shaky ground

Extreme weather events are on the rise with the warming climate. A motorist negotiating heavy rain in Kottayam. File photo

Music of monsoon gives way to lurking fear

A man dressed as Mahabali walks near a floral carpet (Pookkalam) made in a bid to create a Guinness record in Kozhikode.

How floriculture is helping Kerala’s economy

Cultivation of marigold at Anthikkad.

Anthikkad’s tryst with marigold

Mini Muringatheri

Children collect flowers to make pookalam on the occasion of Atham.

Rain plays spoilsport for farmers

Mounting pressure: Fishermen lay siege to the Vizhinjam port with their boats during a protest against the project recently.

Vizhinjam port | In troubled waters

Fishers and citizens lay siege to Adani port during their protest against Adani Group’s port development project at Vizhinjam, in Thiruvananthapuram

Climate vagaries to blame for coastal erosion: studies

Dhinesh Kallungal

Gold seized at Calicut airport in 2018

Gold smuggling: The law is a bit brittle

A. Mithosh Joseph

illustration: satheesh vellinezhi

Grime on the gold: The notorious connection between gold smuggling and ‘missing‘ cases in north Kerala

A. Mithosh Joseph

The skywalk across Rajaji Road connecting the Mofussil bus stand and V.K. Krishna Menon Indoor Stadium in Kozhikode can be accessed using elevators, escalators, or stairs.

Improving walkability index

Aabha Raveendran

Open spaces in Kerala. File Photo.

Open spaces at a premium

With cars and other vehicles being parked on footpaths, the police and the Motor Vehicles department are facing flak for inadequate rule enforcement. A scene from Rajiv Gandhi Indoor Stadium in Kadavanthra in Kochi.

Pedestrians edged out

The dilapidated 160-plus-year-old pier on the Alappuzha beach.

Alappuzha Heritage Project in limbo

A view of the Paravur synagogue.

Muziris Heritage Project to conserve historic port’s legacy rudderless

Workers preparing a field for pokkali farming at Kadamakudy near Kochi. The field used for shrimp farming switches to pokkali farming ahead of the monsoon.

Pokkali gasping

The Western Ghats as seen from Walayar.

Madhav Gadgil stands his ground

Ghats’ treasures: The Koomban Mala, the evergreen forested hills of Silent Valley National Park that contribute to the richness of the Western Ghats, captured from Karuvarakundu in Malappuram district.

ESZ case | Gadgil’s WGEEP report back in the spotlight

Cardamom harvest in Idukki. Cardamom crop is hit by a change in weather patterns, adding to the agrarian distress in the State.

Climate change and food security

Illustration for The Hindu Illustration for TH_Startup
Illustration: Satheesh Vellinezhi

Start-ups anchoring knowledge economy

UAVs to the rescue of farming community

Agriculture department officials demonstrating aerial precision spraying of fertilizer on paddy. A scene from the Peringara polders near Thiruvalla in upper Kuttanad.

Drones to reboot farming activities

Mangrove vegetation across the State is dwindling due to human intervention. A view of a mangrove at Chilavannur, Kochi.

Kerala’s mangroves in troubled waters

Tourism will take wings

A waterway sputters on

A house destroyed in the 2018 mega floods at Kuttamangalam in Kainakary, Alappuzha

Kuttanad’s climate refugees

Sam Paul A.,U. Hiran

Not always a rosy picture

Member-labourers of Uralungal Labour Contract Co-operative Society.

The Uralungal success story

One of the vegetable gardens promoted by the Palliyakkal Service Cooperative Bank, near Ezhikkara, in North Paravur.

Coops revving up social economy

Digital validation of databank in limbo

The makeshift house of Krishnadas at a paddyland at Erimayur near Palakkad town. His application for reclaiming a 10-cent paddy-wetland which the government had allotted him for constructing a house was rejected citing the Kerala Conservation of Paddy Land and Wetland Act, 2008.

An Act at a crossroads

Remains of a house that collapsed in a sea surge at Neerkunnam in Alappuzha.

Inland migration to escape a violent sea

Families who lost their houses in sea erosion being accommodated inside a warehouse at Valiyathura in Thiruvananthapuram.

Bearing the brunt of erosion

Men and machines at work on a sediment deposit on the Pampa. A scene from Vazhakunnam, near Kozhenchery, in Pathanamthitta.

Restoration debate: Conservation or destruction

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June 09, 2022 12:04 pm | Updated June 09, 2023 07:41 am IST

A migrant fisherman fishing at Chulliyar Dam in Muthalamada panchayat in Palakkad. File

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