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Nitheesh Narayanan
Pinaray Vijayan cpim kerala 2 Kerala’s red star still shines

As the Left parties analyze their electoral defeat, the Communist movement remains an inseparable part of Kerala’s development and society.

Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan at the launch of the Institute of Advanced Virology's Mobile Outbreak Testing Unit La garantía de vivir está viva en Kerala

En 2016, el gobierno del Frente Democrático de Izquierda de Kerala anunció el objetivo de reducir la mortalidad infantil a una cifra de un solo dígito. El año pasado, logró reducir la tasa a cinco por cada 1.000 nacimientos, una cifra inferior al promedio nacional de la India e incluso a la de algunos países del Norte global.

The guarantee of life is alive in Kerala

In 2016, Kerala’s Left Democratic Front government announced the goal of cutting infant mortality to single digits. Last year, it managed to bring the ratio to five per 1,000 births — lower than India’s national average and even some Global North countries’.

Death was closer to him than life, yet he faced it with a smile: Remembering Puthukudi Pushpan

Paralyzed for most of his life after being injured in the Koothuparamba struggle, Puthukudi Pushpan’s passing moved all who fight for a better world.

COVID-19 has unleashed death and dehumanization in India’s capital

Nitheesh Narayanan shares a first-hand account of helping a family through loss and bureacracy amid the COVID-19 crisis raging in India