Farewell Prof Warrier! You were a true hero

Vishu has just come and gone. As always, Baisakhi is the day before Vishu; and I remember the massacre at Jallianwallah Bagh: almost a hundred years ago, on April 13, 1919. A walled garden with a......

Varsha Bhosle was a fearless warrior

Rajeev Srinivasan's personal tribute to his late friend. Varsha had a distinct, trademark, booming greeting for me: She'd call me on the phone and positively bellow, "Raaaaj!" with that twinkle in......

The consequences of inaction

Consider the following moral dilemma: If you knew that a friend was planning to commit random mass murder, what would you do? Would you turn him in to the police, or would you let him murder, in......

Emergency: Why Rajan's story resonates with me

The film Piravi is a fictionalised version of Rajan Eachara Warrier's case. A student of the erstwhile Regional Engineering College, Calicut, Rajan went missing during the Emergency Rajeev......