A secular idealist, Faiza Sufiya comes to Delhi for her doctorate on Abdu Rahman Saheb, a freedom fighter from Malabar. But soon her secular ideals put her at loggerheads with fundamentalists from not only from her community, but also from Hindutva proponents.
The events that follow remind us of the news we watch, read and hear all too frequently around us. Varthamanam seeks to raise questions and wake those sleeping from their political ignorance.