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

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

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