Vishu is a festival celebrated in the state of Kerala Kerala ‚ is a state located in southwestern India. The state was created in 1956 on linguistc basis‚ bringing together those places where Malayalam formed the principal language... in South India . The festival marks the first day of Malayalam Year and falls in the month of Medam (April – May). and generally falls on April 14 of the Gregorian year. Vishu follows the sidereal vernal equinox An equinox occurs twice a year‚ when the tilt
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Kerala poets and writers * Akkitham Achuthan Namboodiri - A famous Malayalam poet who is honored by the epithet Mahaakavi. He won the Kendra Sahithya Academy Award for Malayalam in 1973. His famous poems include ’Irupatam Nuttantinte Ithihasam. Akkitham is associated with Tapasya _ a cultural organization. * Arundhati Roy - Writer‚ awarded the Booker Prize in 1997 for The God of Small Things‚ which is set in Kerala. Born in Kerala. * Balachandran Chullikkadu - Poet admired for his realistic
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Malayalam cinema Malayalam cinema is the Indian film industry based in kerala‚ India‚ dedicated to the production of motion pictures in the Malayalamlanguage. At first (beginning in the 1920s)‚ the Malayalam film industry was based in Trivandrum. Although the film industry started to develop and flourish only by the late-1940s. Later‚ the industry shifted to Chennai (formerly Madras)‚ which then was the capital of the South Indian film industry. By the end of 1980s‚ the Malayalam film industry
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Chingam 1 & its Significance Chingam (August – September) is the first month in the Malayalam calendar used in Kerala. The first day of Chingam is the beginning of the New Year according to the Malayalam calendar and is locally referred as (Andu Pirappu). Chingam(August-September) is the time of harvest in Kerala. After the rain drenched Karkidakam with its privations‚ Chingam is a welcome month of plenty.The first day is welcomed by special pujas and people in large numbers visit the temples
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Press) here in 1821 by Rev.Benjamin Baily. 7] Maiden printed English & Malayalam Dictionaries were published from Kottayam in 1846 & 1865 respectively. 8] The first travelogue in Malayalam‚ Varthamana Pusthakam (1778)‚ written by Parammekkal Thoma Kathanar was published from Kottayam 9] The first autobiography in Malayalam by Vaikom Pachu Moothathu was published from Kottayam in 1870. 10] The first Malayalam Bible was also published from Kottayam. 11] The first and only Cooperative Society
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1912 it took time for the movement to reach the South to hit the Malayalam screens. This article is an earnest endeavor to cobble into a brief article the birth and development of Malayalam Cinema. Indian Cinema even though yielded to the magical hands of Phalke the genre took its own time to creep into the Malayali lives. The main reason remained that none was aware enough to start such an endeavor in Kerala. The early Malayalam Cinema was all the creations from the Chennai based Film studios
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In kerala the food is simple ‚ fresh and easywith mainly rice ‚ coconut and vegetables whereas in ladakh food is hot and spicy with mainly meat. Ladakh is a hill station and has very cold weather and snows in winter time however kerala is a large state and has tropical climate and is covered with trees and has very high rainfall Ladakh is a small town in J & Kwhere as kerla is a state. Ladakh is a hill station or you can say a mountain desert‚ is very cold place and is sarounded with mountains
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best-known contemporary Indian women writers. She writes in two languages‚ English and Malayalam. She has also written under the pseudonyms Madhavikutty and Kamala Suraiyya.). Das was born into an aristocratic Nair Hindu family in Malabar. Her love of poetry began at an early age through the influence of her maternal great-uncle‚ Narayan Menon‚ a prominent writer‚ and her mother‚ Balamani Amma‚ a well-known Malayali poet. Das was also deeply affected by the poetry of the sacred writings kept by the
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Puraskaram‚ Vayalar Award‚ Sahitya Akademi Award‚ Asan World Prize‚ Asian Poetry Prize‚ Kent Award | Spouse(s) | Madhava Das | Kamala Suraiyya (b. Kamala Madhavikutty) (Malayalam കമലാ സുരയ്യ / മാധവിക്കുട്ടി) (31 March 1934 – 31 May 2009) was a major Indian English poet and literateur and at the same time a leading Malayalam author. Her popularity in Kerala is based chiefly on her short stories and autobiography‚ while her oeuvre in English‚ written under the name Kamala Das‚ is noted for the fiery
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KERALA HISTORY Pre-Historic Kerala The meglithic monuments include the dolmens‚ cists‚ rock-cut caves‚ thopikallu‚ pulachikallu‚ kudakkallu etc. All of them are associated with burial system. ‘Nannangadi’ was the burial jar. The important palaeolithic sites are valuvasseri (Nilambur) and Tenkara (Palaghat) The mesolithic sites are Walayar (Palaghat)‚ Mankara‚ Tenmalai (Kollam) Kerala is believed to have originated by the withdrawal of sea‚ when Parasurama
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