Kavitha Muralidharan

Pahalgam terror attack: NWMI demands that criminal charges against political commentators be dropped The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) condemns the levelling of absurd and draconian charges of subversive activities against popular satirists and political commentators Neha Singh Rathore and ...

Charges of secession, separatism against political commentators is a chilling indicator of an inherently illiberal, authoritarian response to dissenting opinions. Ultimately strikes at the very foundations of a democracy.
#DrMedusa #NehaSingh #TheRantingGola #Pahalgam

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One day, he meets someone from his village and pleads to be taken away. What he receives instead is a bar of sandalwood soap—to wash off the life he cannot leave. Translating this story wasn’t an act of craft. It was a confrontation. Murugan offers no comfort, and as a translator, neither could I.

A nameless boy, whose job is to knock on toilet doors in a city bus stand summoning people out. The job leaves him with a feeling of 'shit stuck on his back.'

Perumal Murugan's Sandalwood Soap wasn’t just a story I translated—it remains the one I couldn’t walk past.

As I move between languages with growing earnestness, I hope to share—even if not often—what it means to carry another writer’s voice: its silences, its sharp edges, its weight.

#LanguageIsPolitical
#BetweenLanguages
#TranslatedLives

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Sally Rooney: When are we going to have the courage to stop the climate crisis? Capitalism is driving the destruction of our planet. We have to think outside – and against – the framework of our current political system

Incredible essay by Sally Rooney in the Irish Times

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YouTube video by Vj_edits Ponvaanam Panner Thuvuthu | Song Cover by Dhillip

Some Sunday morning energy
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#Ilaiyaraja #SongsForTheSoul

Remembering Alamelu Mangai Thayarammal and her Fight for Dravidian Identity On this day, 108 years ago, a lone woman joined a group of 30 individuals to establish the South Indian Liberal Federation (SILF), later known as the Justice Party, which laid the foundation for the D...

So here's to Alamelu Mangai Thayarammal and the numerous other women who were active in the Dravidian movement! Without them, we wouldn't be.
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It was an exciting moment of discovery, and I knew I had to do a story with whatever little information I could gather. I hope we will soon uncover another lost book of Thayarammal—a woman of ancient Dravidian land—and more details about her life.

A chance conversation between husband and Chiththaanai, who works with the Tamil Virtual Academy, gave me a lead. He said he had a photograph of her and a note about her, published in the Who's Who of Madras (1935). Chiththaanai sir sent me a digital version of the journal. It felt like a lottery!

Not much is known about Alamelu Mangai Thayarammal except her participation in the SILF and that she was an MLC. For years, I was looking for some information on her—a trailblazer—and couldn't find anything, not even a photograph.

This is Alamelu Mangai Thayarammal. On this day in 1916—over a 100 years ago—she was the only woman to participate in a meeting of the South Indian Liberation Federation against Brahmin hegemony. The SILF would later be called the Justice Party and much later pave the way for the Dravidian movement.