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Malini Nair

Malini Nair is a regular Scroll.in contributor

Satire and the Malayali: Why India’s best cartoonists almost always come from Kerala

Political cartooning and Kerala have been a perfect match since the first cartoon was published in the state in 1919.

Malini Nair
· Dec 10, 2018 · 11:30 am
Subversive in verse: How Delhi’s Urdu poets once challenged emperors and clerics

At a time when the offence-taking machinery is in overdrive, it is hard to imagine an era when poets wore defiance as a badge of honour.

Malini Nair
· Oct 08, 2018 · 11:30 am
Shurpanakha as an anti-hero: In Kerala’s theatre and classic texts, an epic wrong is set right

In a staging of the play ‘Shurpanakhankam’ in Delhi, the character was not a cardboard vamp – but the centrepiece.

Malini Nair
· Sep 26, 2018 · 11:30 am

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