Sudhakaran’s rift with the party began after the 2021 polls in which he did not participate. During the next year’s organisational reshuffle, he was dropped from state committee.
Controversy erupted after Bindu Menon Monday accused the minister of infidelity and said she had caught him ‘red-handed’ at their family home in Trivandrum.
Accounts linked to CPI(M) allegedly criticised Mammootty after he was seen asking a party functionary not to follow too closely during a visit to the Wayanad Model Township
The ruling Left party in Kerala is facing open dissent in several districts, with rebel convention, leadership disputes and resignations complicating its election preparations.
However, Kerala CM Pinarayi, who lauded award to actor Mammootty at the State Film Awards ceremony, was silent on Padma Vibhushan awarded posthumously to veteran communist leader.
Latest tussle is after reports that Special Investigation Team will be questioning Congress MP Adoor Prakash on alleged links with prime accused in gold plating row.
Launched in 1998, the women’s empowerment programme has become a political nursery: 7,210 of 23,612 councillors elected in the 2025 local body polls are Kudumbashree volunteers.
The CPI(M)-led Kerala govt announces a 10-member SIT-led probe amid heightened tensions with the BJP-RSS; Palakkad Superintendent of Police will lead the team.
In a candid conversation with ThePrint, CPI (M)’s Rajya Sabha MP John Brittas also talked about the Left’s electoral setbacks in Kerala local body polls.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
ncredible. This isn’t just a puff piece—it’s a full-blown propaganda sheet masquerading as journalism. Even by ThePrint’s dismal standards, this sycophantic drivel is jaw-droppingly embarrassing. North Korea would blush at the level of hagiography on display. Over 90% of the article is a nauseating parade of bootlicking quotes from anonymous admirers, while the glaring red flags and inconvenient facts are buried in a perfunctory afterthought toward the end.
And we’re supposed to swallow—with a straight face—that a CM, who handed a ministerial post to a first-time MLA solely because he’s family, maintains abhors special preferences for
him? Based on the word of an unnamed “close source”? That’s not journalism—that’s stenography for power, drenched in denial and dressed up as insight.
What’s most infuriating is that ThePrint once held promise as a bulwark against precisely this kind of dishonest narrative-building. But articles like this—glossy, glorifying, and utterly devoid of skepticism—aren’t journalism. They’re undeclared PR campaigns, and they gut whatever scraps of credibility remain.
If this is the future of the free press, then journalism isn’t dying—it’s already dead.
ncredible. This isn’t just a puff piece—it’s a full-blown propaganda sheet masquerading as journalism. Even by ThePrint’s dismal standards, this sycophantic drivel is jaw-droppingly embarrassing. North Korea would blush at the level of hagiography on display. Over 90% of the article is a nauseating parade of bootlicking quotes from anonymous admirers, while the glaring red flags and inconvenient facts are buried in a perfunctory afterthought toward the end.
And we’re supposed to swallow—with a straight face—that a CM, who handed a ministerial post to a first-time MLA solely because he’s family, maintains abhors special preferences for
him? Based on the word of an unnamed “close source”? That’s not journalism—that’s stenography for power, drenched in denial and dressed up as insight.
What’s most infuriating is that ThePrint once held promise as a bulwark against precisely this kind of dishonest narrative-building. But articles like this—glossy, glorifying, and utterly devoid of skepticism—aren’t journalism. They’re undeclared PR campaigns, and they gut whatever scraps of credibility remain.
If this is the future of the free press, then journalism isn’t dying—it’s already dead.