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Malavika Velayanikal
  • Why rely on allopathy when you can grow your own drugs?
     - 4 days ago
    Plants like tulsi (holy basil), karpooravalli (Indian borage), and ginger are potent enough to cure most common ailments.
  • Urban poor voters balk at lofty poll calls
     - 2 weeks ago
    Gone are the days when some biriyani or a colour TV or even promises of rice for five rupees per kg was enough to swing the urban poor vote bank.
  • In pursuit of an electoral ID card
     - 3 weeks ago
    For Malavika Velayanikal, getting her voter ID card proved to be a wild goose chase, until...
  • A queer twist to filmmaking
     - 2 months ago
    Making a queer film is not as straightforward as making one for a mainstream audience, filmmakers tell Malavika Velayanikal
  • A marriage of convenience
     - 2 months ago
    The French in Pondicherry used local goods, like spices, to prepare their subtle flavours. Malavika Velayanikal finds out how these two cuisines coexisted.
  • 'Not easy to write a good sex scene'
     - 2 months ago
    Yes, erotica is still a guilty pleasure around here. But with clever editors, talented writers and mainstream publishers ready to publish good work, more and more readers are parking interesting erotic fiction on their bookshelves.
  • An ecosystem for education
     - 3 months ago
    There's no disputing the fact that an attractive classroom with good chairs and other essential infrastructure plays a vital role in making schools a little more welcoming and education less chore-like for the students.
  • Bangalore: They create forests for a living
     - 3 months ago
    Instead of simply expressing their angst over disappearing forests, a bunch of biodiversity enthusiasts in Bangalore decided to grow some. Malavika Velayanikal reports.
  • In love with Adam, Eve and the Church
     - 3 months ago
    WhatÂ’s it like to be bisexual and a devout Christian? Aden Jay Christian wrote a book on it and now he shares his experiences with Malavika Velayanikal.
  • Review: Special 26 is an intelligent thriller
     - 3 months ago
    Special 26 is not a film that favours soft creative options. It takes the heist-story audaciously through a complicated maze of morality without getting snarled in sermons and messages.

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