“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” – George Orwell. Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look ...

It is 6.30 am on a Tuesday, and 20 of us, between the ages of eight and 48, watch and attempt to copy Lavanyaa Gladston’s moves ( chuvadu) and stances ( vadidu). She does a series of warm-up jumps, ...

Amid an almost half-an-hour delay and the subsequent onstage admonishment by the state Intelligence chief T P Sen Kumar for the lag, the functioning of the ‘Kerala Police Kalari Training Centre’ was ...

Ever heard of a silambam-kalari-yoga cocktail? Ganapathy Murugesan likes to call it ‘Creative Martial Arts.’ The reason he says is that this form has an urge to ‘create,’ rather than to give form to a ...