Topic: kerala
Leader of Kerala’s historic land agitation of Dalits, Laha Gopalan, dies at 72
The historic Chengara land struggle leader and Dalit activist Laha Gopalan died on Wednesday at the age of 72 in Pathanamthitta district in Kerala.
Kerala: CPIM secretary, minister back bishop’s ‘narcotic jihad’ speech, call critics ‘terrorists’
On Friday, VN Vasavan, minister for Cooperation and Registration in Pinarayi Vijayan cabinet and Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader visited Pala Bishop Joseph Kallarangatt, who had made the anti-Muslim 'narcotic jihad' speech, and posted an appraisal Facebook post calling the bishop "scholarly" and accusing the ones protesting against him as "terrorists."
Schools in Kerala set to reopen on November 1
Schools in Kerala will reopen on November 1, after a one-and-a-half-year interval, even as the southern state reported 19,325 fresh coronavirus infections on Saturday.
Indian Church loses friends and makes new enemies
Church leaders find themselves rapidly losing allies, even as they make new enemies, and widen the many internal fractures of dogma, doctrine, racialism, and caste.
Kerala: Nuns walk out protesting against anti-Muslim speech by priest
At least four nuns in Kerala's Kuruvilangad convent staged a walkout from Sunday's holy mass, protesting against anti-Muslim comments made by the priest during the service.Â
Kerala: Dalit family of a child sexual abuse survivor faces social boycott from CPIM
"An unwritten social boycott existed against us. People stopped talking to us. Nobody is visiting my home. In tea shops, grocery shops wherever I go, I feel boycotted," says Unnikrishnan, father of a POCSO offence survivor, who hails from Kattoor village in Kerala’s Thrissur district.
