The death of actor Mamukkoya brought an end to an era of bona fide representation of north Malabar Mappila culture in Malayalam cinema. He popularized the innocence and ruggedness of a culture that ...

Nasarudeen Mannarkkad is in the process of writing ‘Padappattu’ on the 387 persons associated with the Malabar Rebellion, whose names are going to be removed from the list of freedom fighters.

After films on Kunjali Marakkar and Variyan Kunnathu Kunjahammed Haji, yet again in Mollywood, two different movies have been announced on the same subject. The films, based on the topic of Mappila ...

Spoken, sung, mimed and taught — by pundits, illiterate singers, all-night performers and school teachers — the story of Rama is, like Kamban said, “many and one at once”. In the main an oral ...

It was after doing music for the movie Mylanchi Monjulla Veedu that people of the popular music label ‘Muzik 247’ approached music director Afzal Yusuff to do a set of ‘mappila’ songs for them. While ...

KANNUR: Perhaps this man will make you aware of the amazing workload a human being can bear. Muneer, 36, hailing from Thalassery, has a hectic schedule at the state school arts festival venue with his ...

Abida Rasheed is in her living room, but her eyes are on her kitchen. “You have to teach people how to do things right,” she said, shouting out instructions to her daughter on how not to over-brew the ...

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News that the leaders and participants of the 1921 Mappila Rebellion by north Kerala’s Muslims could be dropped from the Dictionary of Martyrs of India’s Freedom Struggle has triggered condemnation ...

The Muslim folklore songs are usually written in a specific Arabi-Malayalam script and sing praises of Islamic personalities or notable incidents in the history of Islam. During Ramadan, as night ...