Ajay Kamalakaran
@AjayKamalakaran
Writer One-time New Yorker, suburban Bombayite, Mount Lavinian and Russophile
Australians witnessed Kathakali performances for the first time in early 1947. In my latest for Manorama, I write about how this came to be. onmanorama.com/lifestyle/kera…
Rethinking The Middle East | VOL 1 ISSUE 3 | Iran in India- Middle East Relations : Between Autonomy And Alignment by Deepika Saraswat (@saraswatisdeepi ) “India’s perseverance in engaging with Iran despite its growing alignment with the United States and its Middle Eastern…
'A Monastery in the Himalayas' by Nicholas Roerich, 1931.
Link - freepressjournal.in/analysis/beyon… Beyond The Bargaining Table: How India's Soft Power Is Rewriting The ASEAN Playbook
Trust is not built inside negotiation rooms alone. It grows in temples, homes, markets,everyday interactions. During my travels across Southeast Asia, seen how relationships flourish when basic needs like sanitation, safety are prioritised, when cultural empathy flows both ways.
Timeless Treasures: The Heritage Homes of Downtown Srinagar
Who wishes to accompany me on a slow march from the Drang Drung Glacier in Ladakh, India, to the Rara Lake in Mugu, Nepal, via the realms of Zangskar, Lahaul, Kullu, Kinnaur, Garhwal, Kumaon, and Doti? We will need to walk about 2,000 km in 20 weeks while living on very little.
Which European country has the least attractive people?
Someone could profit from a ferry service there from June to October! Facepalm
Andheri S̶u̶b̶w̶a̶y̶ Drain was filled with water 10 times in July. And, to keep this drain free of water BMC plans to spend Rs 600 Crores. My BMC Works best at draining away our money
"Vietnam wasn’t going anywhere." Spoken like someone whose history begins with colonization and whose only metric of value is Western validation. Let me teach you something, Paul. Vietnam was writing poetry when your ancestors were still painting themselves blue. We had…
🤯 The West: "We Improved The Countries We Colonised" Also The West:
NO to Black July ever again 🇱🇰🏴 On This Day in 1983, one of the darkest and most tragic chapters in Sri Lanka’s history unfolded. We remember the pain. We acknowledge the mistake. We stand united, Sinhala, Tamil, Muslim, Burgher, Malay. #Remembering #LKA #SriLanka #BlackJuly…
In the late 1940s, the Indian government was against accepting foreign honours for government officials and private citizens alike... I write about the case of an education ministry official being asked to refuse an award from Cuba for Scroll scroll.in/magazine/10847…
The famous Chandni Chowk was once a tree shaded avenue with shops selling luxury items. After the 1857 Uprising, all the trees were cut and the roads planed. Not a single tree was left to provide shade to shoppers. In the centre of Chandni Chowk, the Delhi Municipality built a…
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This is blatant plagiarism @News18Kerala ! Shame!
Hi @News18Kerala, why have you copied an article I wrote for @IndiasWorld_mag word-for-word without proper attribution? The least you can do as a legacy brand is give due credit to a freelance reporter and the publication. youtu.be/C1hmEdoSMXA?si… indiasworld.in/ottapalam-a-to…
Kerala is typically thought of as connected to Arabic via the Indian Ocean but not to the Persianate world further north, so I'm intrigued by the mention of this Arabi-Malayalam press printing "other cultural forms of Persian tales" in the early 1880s.
Blog post by Mohammed Khaleel on early Arabi-Malayalam lithographed books printed in Kerala in the 1870s-1880s in the @britishlibrary collection - interesting parallels with early Malay lithographic printing from Singapore blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-afri…