
Being Beardless in Malluland
Beards were once considered unsavory in Kerala. Today they define the Malayalee male image. How did this come about?
Beards were once considered unsavory in Kerala. Today they define the Malayalee male image. How did this come about?
The “migration to migration” story of four generations of a Nasrani Christian family of Meenachil Taluk, Kottayam, Kerala.
There are quite a few advantages of discarding gender roles in everyday life, which is mainly a chance for a better life for everyone in the family.
I happened to visit an engineering college in south-central Kerala to help a small IT company with their campus placements. I was expecting things to be like they were when I was graduating nearly two decades ago: scores of anxious young people thronging rooms with lots of expectations, apprehensions, questions. But what I found was…