Month: August 2026

To Look Is Not To See: Walking in Mattanchery During Kochi-Muziris Biennale

Art, Culture, People, Society, Travel

A video by MUHAMMED NOUSHAD; Voice by PRANEETH JONATHAN. Kochi is ​like a mosaic, especially Mattancherry: a mix of diverse, contrasting, amazing binaries. It’s very symbolic in many ways. Over the centuries, Kochi has welcomed sailors and saints, traders and artisans, invaders and innocents, and lot more. Jews, Arab Muslims, Europeans, Gujaratis, Konkanis, and of course, various ethnicities of Malayalis have shared this

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​Remembering Escobar for a Reason After Three Decades

Cinema, Culture, Popular Culture, Society, Sports

MUHAMMED NOUSHAD Andres Escobar’s ghost still seems to be casting a poignant shadow over Colombian football. Otherwise, why should a footballer fear for his life, for a sporting failure, even after 32 years since Escobar’s martyrdom in Colombia? I should, however, confess that this is not to suggest the country hasn’t changed, or its internal dynamics associated with football remain

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