scorecardresearch
Thursday, August 14, 2025
HomeOpinionKerala Konnect

Kerala Konnect

Kerala’s forests have too many animals. It’s coming at a cost for humans

Kerala often looks up to Scandinavian countries as model welfare states but ignores the fact that, in countries like Norway and Sweden, wildlife is treated as a renewable resource.

Pinarayi Vijayan’s double-speak on women’s security needs to be called out

CPI(M) councillor Kala Raju’s humiliation can’t be seen as an isolated case. The party promotes aggression and violence from the grassroots level, starting with university campuses in Kerala.

Kerala Muslim groups are auditing others on Islamophobia. It isn’t helping

The Jamaat-e-Islami and other outfits that campaign against the stoking of Islamophobia in Kerala must first look within before conveniently laying the blame on others.

NM Vijayan suicide note reveals sorry state of Kerala Congress–bad loans, cash-for-job scams

The December 2024 deaths of Wayanad District Congress Committee treasurer NM Vijayan and his son Jijesh shook Kerala. The contents of Vijayan’s suicide note were recently released by his family.

Did media & Left stoke Islamophobia in MEC 7 fitness controversy? Facts say otherwise

Samastha’s AP faction is among the most orthodox Muslim outfits in Kerala. Its primary objection to MEC 7 is the mingling of genders and the exercise being held in public view.

Ramesh Chennithala is getting a Nair rebranding. Kerala Congress targets Hindu votes

The Nair Service Society in Kerala welcomed Ramesh Chennithala like he was the prodigal son. The political situation in Kerala is also in favour of his Nair rebranding.

CPI-M is damaging Kerala with its petty politics. God’s own country to ‘mini-Pakistan’

For several elections now, the Kerala CPI-M has refused to accept election defeats. Its general response is that the BJP transferred votes to the Congress, or vice versa.

MT Vasudevan Nair’s passing is a reminder that ‘death is a clown with no sense of timing’

MT’s last public speech earlier this year, attacking the personality cult of Pinarayi Vijayan, had Kerala’s ruling Marxists scampering for cover.

Munambam dispute fuelling Christian-Muslim divide in Kerala. Leaving it unchecked is risky

The Munambam issue is a land dispute between the Latin Christian fisherfolk living on a parcel of land near Kochi, and the Kerala Waqf Board.

Kerala Left is becoming indistinguishable from Right—turncoats, ideological erosion, hypocrisy

It is a fallacy to believe that Keralites are cut from some different cloth, that there is no scope for sectarian thought.

On Camera

Trump is swinging on Russia again. What this means for Europe’s security architecture

The dynamics between Europe and Russia have gone so south that mending fences looks like an uphill task—even as the US swings between sanctions and olive branches.

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

Hit by mortar shell, but still fighting—BSF heroes of Op Sindoor honoured with gallantry medals

President of India has honoured 16 BSF personnel with gallantry medals for show of exemplary courage in the 87-hour ‘war’ between India and Pakistan that followed the launch of Op Sindoor.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.