Preethu Nair
Why Kerala’s communists are desperately wooing Ayyappa devotees
The Left’s ideology has no space for religion, but as the state’s CPM-led LDF government goes all out to back an Ayyappa Swamy event, experts say it is plugging into rivals’ playbooks to woo Hindu voters ahead of assembly polls next year
- Preethu Nair
- TNN
In Kerala, a garden springs from a book
‘Hortus Malabaricus’, a Latin text on the region’s flora, is being painstakingly recreated on a 20-acre plot near Palakkad
- Preethu Nair
- Times Network