Sharanya Gopinathan
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Vanitha magazine's advice on puberty smacks of an obsession with hiding breasts
While much of the article hints almost darkly at the changes that will soon be visited upon the growing child, it discusses them in a manner that impresses upon mothers the need to hide or control these changes. → Read More
True Crime Fans Are Obsessed With This Forensic Psychology YouTube Channel
Millions are hooked to JCS – Criminal Psychology videos on YouTube. I’m one of them. → Read More
A Group of Lawyers Wants to Make Sure India’s Most Hated Criminals Aren’t Hanged
For Project 39A, there’s more to death row prisoners’ stories than that one alleged crime that earned them the fateful sentence. → Read More
Some Schools in India Plan to Reward Kids of Vaccinated Parents
“If they have only one parent, they’ll get only two marks.” → Read More
An Israeli Gymnast Won Gold at the Olympics. Then, a Bollywood Composer Started Trending.
The Israeli national anthem seemed oddly familiar to 90s kids from India. → Read More
Many Indian Women Are Living Britney’s Nightmare
Even without a court-mandated conservatorship, men often get away with controlling women’s choices. → Read More
COVID-19 is creating armchair health experts on social media and it needs to stop
Did you feel personally attacked by that cartoon that was being shared widely last week, showing a man telling his wife that his Facebook friends who were Constitutional law experts last week have all now suddenly become infectious disease experts? → Read More
Initially blocked, 4 trans women granted police protection to visit Sabarimala
The group of four transwomen, Anannyah, Thripthi, Avanthika and Ranjumol, who were turned away from Sabarimala by Erumely police on Sunday morning, have now been granted permission and police protection to make the trek to the Sabarimala hill shrine. They received permission to do so on Monday morning, and will make the trek on Tuesday morning. → Read More
VA Shrikumar does not have rights over Randamoozham script: MT Vasudevan Nair's daughter
At a press conference held in Thiruvananthapuram on Sunday, Malayalam movie director VA Shrikumar Menon told reporters that he would start shooting for the movie Randamoozham, based on MT Vasudevan’s 1984 novel by the same name, in 6 months time. He had also said that the storyboard for the film was ready, and that he meets MT Vasudevan Nair every month in order to discuss the → Read More
Senior journalist and editor with The Hindu G Mahadevan passes away in Kerala
G Mahadevan, a senior assistant editor at The Hindu in Thiruvananthapuram passed away on Saturday after a long drawn out battle against cancer. He was 47. His body will be displayed at the Thiruvananthapuram Press Club for the public to pay their respects. Mahadevan was diagnosed with cancer of the heart in 2013, for which he underwent treatment and went into remission. He → Read More
Thrissur's new Mayor Ajitha has been delivering milk for 18 yrs, and has no plans to stop
At the crack of every dawn, Ajitha Vijayan mounts bags of milk packets on her two-wheeler, rides through every neighbourhood in Thrissur’s Kanimangalam and delivers milk to almost 200 houses. This is Thrissur’s new mayor, who was appointed on Wednesday. But even before taking on the new role as the leader of the city corporation, Ajitha is known to the people of her ward as → Read More
Kerala govt opposes Dileep plea for actor assault video, says contents could be leaked
The government of Kerala has filed an affidavit before the Supreme Court stating that actor Dileep must not be given a copy of the video that was taken of the assault of a female actor in February 2017. Dileep, who is charged with conspiracy in the abduction and assault of a popular Malayalam actor, had approached the Supreme Court with his request for a copy of the recorded → Read More
Man sets himself on fire at BJP Sabarimala protest venue in Tvm, critical
Around 2 am on Thursday, a Thiruvananthapuram native named Venugopalan Nair set himself on fire in front of the Kerala Secretariat building. He rushed into the makeshift tent that has been constructed there to house BJP State General Secretary CK Padmanabhan, who is currently carrying on the BJP’s relay fast to protest the government’s handling of the Sabarimala temple women's → Read More
Don’t let girls take selfies with boys, monitor contacts: Kottayam police to parents
With cases of cyber related crime on the rise in Kerala, the Kottayam police, under the direction of District Police Chief Hari Sankar IPS, have put out a set of instructions for parents and children in an apparent attempt to raise awareness on online safety for children. → Read More
Ahead of inauguration, Vineeth Sreenivasan sings melody for Kannur International Airport
You may have seen an advertisement on Malayalam television channels recently, featuring Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan praising the brand new Kannur International Airport, and inviting everyone to its inauguration on 9 December. Now, singer, producer and director Vineeth Sreenivasan has released a deeply emotional and melodious song about the newly opened airport and → Read More
Sabarimala row: BJP’s K Surendran remanded to 14 day additional custody
On Thursday, BJP State General Secretary K Surendran was remanded by the Pathanamthitta Judicial First Class Magistrate to 14 days in judicial custody, until December 20, in relation to the case of conspiracy to trap a 52-year-old woman, Lalitha, who arrived at Sabarimala for darshan on November 6. → Read More
Kannur 16-yr-old gang raped, reveals she was also sexually abused by father for years
Perhaps nobody could have guessed just how convoluted an already deeply horrifying case, of a 16-year-old Kannur girl being lured by a group of adult men through social media and subsequently gang raped at a lodge in Parassinikkadavu on November 19, would turn out to be. Preliminary inquiries have found that a 16-year-old child in question had been gang raped by a group of men → Read More
Two lawyers accused of helping Pulsar Suni in actor assault case, acquitted by Kerala HC
Lawyers Pratheesh Chacko and Raju Joseph, who were arrested in connection with the abduction and sexual assault of an actor in February 2017, have been acquitted by the Kerala High Court on Wednesday. Pratheesh and his assistant Raju were the lawyers to initially represent the main accused in the case, Pulsar Suni. They were arrested in July 2017 on charges of harbouring a → Read More
Refused elsewhere, para athlete Pooja Agarwal finally gets to scuba dive in Kerala
Para athlete Pooja Agarwal, who’s currently ranked 12th in the world and 3rd in Asia amongst para shooters, said she attempted to go scuba diving many times before she completed her first successful dive in Kerala on November28, but until then “no group agreed to do it with persons with physical disabilities.” → Read More
Why Dileep's demand for visuals of actor assault is morally wrong and dangerous
Malayalam actor Dileep’s demand for the visuals of a female actor being attacked and assaulted to be handed over to him has now reached the Supreme Court. His plea requesting all evidence materials, including the video recording of the assault taking place, had been rejected by the Angamaly Magistrate Court on February 7, 2018. He then went to the Kerala High Court, claiming → Read More