For some time, we have known this in Kerala, and I have written about it too. But it is important to keep writing about it. Because the image of the benevolent state in Kerala conceals too much. In fact, a worrying Kerala Story is precisely that of a widening range of insecurities about Muslims, from … Continue reading A Left that Specialises in Shape-Shifting →
Around two weeks back, just about a week after the ritual of Women’s Day celebrations in Thiruvananthapuram, a 49-year-old woman decided to go get herself some pain medication at 10 30 at night, after all home remedies failed against her persistent body ache. She lives in the beating heart of the city of Thiruvananthapuram in … Continue reading Can we now practice some love? Thoughts on safety and feminism from Kerala →
This reflection has been long coming: the whole idea of women’s empowerment has been steadily deteriorating in Kerala since some years now. Actually, even from the side of the government, there is much less talk about it, even though it flowed into Kerala in the 1990s through the government, somewhat neoliberalized already, after the Beijing … Continue reading Time to dump ’empowerment’? Feminism, women and the state in kerala today →
