While the Tamil Nadu state government is on an expansion mode strengthening the midday meals scheme for school students with breakfast, the cash-strapped neighbour Kerala is struggling to serve noon meal for its over 30 lakh students of government and aided schools up to 8th standard in the...
With an estimated 2,80,000 stray dogs on its streets, Kerala is in danger of becoming Dogs own Country rather than the iconic Gods Own Country, known for its serene and green landscape. There are another 9,00,000 licensed pet dogs many of which join the strays thanks to neglect or being...
Kerala: Protest marches, road blockades, endless poster campaigns on digital platforms, legal wrangles, vociferous discussions in television channels, poetry readings, music albums, cultural resistance and much more — Kerala is caught in jumbo debate over problem tusker Arikomban, the Rice...
While The Kerala Story purports to claim that tens of thousands of women were converted to Islam in Kerala to be sent to ISIS territory, the true figure is three. Only three women have been documented to have been duped into converting to Islam for the purpose of serving the ISIS in its holy...
While two tuskers, both fond of rice, have been giving sleepless nights to residents living on the edge of the forests in the border regions of Kerala, a precedent set by the Tamil Nadu forest department which had captured and released an elephant Arisi Raja (King of Rice) after radio-collaring...
Kerala is abuzz with a ‘No to pads, opt for M-cups’ campaign, as the state government, various agencies and people’s representatives spread awareness about the use of menstrual cups for periods instead of sanitary napkins. The menstrual cup is a reusable and eco-friendly alternative to sanitary...
The increasing man-animal conflict in the Tamil Nadu-Kerala border region of the Nilgiris recently sparked a debate on the two different approaches taken by the two states in handling the issue of a rogue wild elephant wreaking havoc with human lives and homes. Pandalur Makhna 2 (PM2), a young...
Farmers in The Nilgiris have been agitating against the proposed buffer zone around the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, fearing that it would prevent them from cultivating crops of their choice, constructing or renovating buildings and selling land. The Nilgiri Biosphere is spread over a vast area...
Kerala, which boasts of comparatively better education systems and women’s empowerment than other Indian states, is now witnessing a series of brutal attacks on women across age groups. The attacks seem to be a bid to suppress a cultural revolt by a new generation that has been trying to...
As human settlements in the Nilgiris have expanded over the years into wild habitats, leaving animals with no place to go, the incidence of human-animal conflicts in the region has increased. In the past five years, more than 40 people were killed in animal attacks in the Nilgiris district,...
