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Dreaming Dar es Salaam: Forced Migration and the Impossibility of Return

31st December 2020 Issue 28

Moving between memory and history, poetry and prose, Kerala and Tanzania, May Joseph reflects on her parents’ experiences as Malayali migrants to Tanzania in the mid-twentieth century.

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‘Let us tie a “legal” knot’: Marriage, Family, and Transgender Identity in Malayalam Films

30th November 2020 Issue 27

Anu Kuriakose critically looks at the traditional concepts of ‘marriage’ and ‘family,’ the recent marriages of transgender people in the[…]

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How Christian Familism Prevails: Reflections on ‘Kettiyolaanu Ente Malakha’

31st March 2020 Issue 19

Nidhin Donald explores the themes of Christian familism and individual agency, secular institutions, and reason in the 2019 film Kettiyolaanu Ente Malakha

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Is ‘Another Family’ Possible? Why Kumbalangi Nights Breaks New Grounds in Malayalam Cinema

31st August 2019 Issue 12

Kumbalangi nights garnered critical claim and praise for its perceptive portrayal of the lives of four half brothers. Lipin Ram delves deeply into the question of family at the centre of the movie.

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Have we forgotten what Migration means?

30th April 2019 Issue 8

Shafeeq writes about the need to re-imagine migration through the everyday stories of those who travel, and away from the[…]

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