How a research scholar’s curiosity about type designing led to a paper on Kerala’s vibrant hand-painted political graffiti
Neetha Joseph K, a doctoral scholar at IIT Hyderabad, has documented hand-painted political graffiti in Kerala in a research paper, ‘The Visual Voices of Kerala’s Politics’, which looks at the stylistic variations of the Malayalam fonts across eight districts in the State
The HinduPublished: 10 April 2026

Neetha Joseph K, a doctoral scholar at IIT Hyderabad, has documented hand-painted political graffiti in Kerala in a research paper, ‘The Visual Voices of Kerala’s Politics’, which looks at the stylistic variations of the Malayalam fonts across eight districts in the State