Topic: kerala

"Thank God, South is still free, and I hope it remains free, and develops and gets stronger. We get strength from you. We look at you, and we say to ourselves, Oh Allah, when you wake up so that we can also walk freely, talk freely, think freely. That's what democracy was. Of the people, for the people, by the people," said an emotional Farooq Abdullah, the veteran Kashmiri politician.

Ten-month-old Alin Sherin Abraham, Kerala’s youngest organ donor, was laid to rest with full State and police honours on February 15 in Pathanamthitta, as a grieving community gathered to bid farewell to a life that, though brief, altered the course of many others.

Kerala filmmaker and academic dean Asha Achy Joseph has publicly detailed her sexual harassment complaint against director and former MLA P T Kunju Muhammed, alleging abuse of authority during IFFK duties and asserting that silence would amount to injustice amid delayed institutional action

A.K.M. Ashraf, Indian Union Muslim League leader and MLA of Manjeshwar in Kerala’s Kasaragod, has alleged that in the constituency, the BJP, in collusion with certain officials, is attempting to widely reject the votes of the Muslim community.

Solidarity Youth Movement organised a mass rally and public gathering in Kerala’s Malappuram district demanding justice and release of Zakariya, who completed 17 years in jail as an undertrial in the 2008 Bengaluru blasts case under UAPA, calling his prolonged incarceration a symbol of delayed and denied justice.

Veteran poet and Kerala Sahitya Akademi Chairman K. Satchidanandan has said that continuous rule is not desirable in Kerala and that power should alternate between political fronts, a remark that has sparked criticism from the ruling CPI(M).