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 ...

Drawing from the Portuguese, Dutch, English and Arab influences, Mappila cuisine is the best sort of amalgamation of local and borrowed food traditions. And the pice de rsistance of Mappila cooking is ...

SIgnboards with the ‘Al’ prefix are the second indicator that you are in Mappila (Kerala Muslim) country, the first, of course, being a sartorial style that you cannot miss. This is Malappuram ...

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 ...

What was Lawrence of Arabia doing in Thrissur in 1921? More crucially, whose side was he on? By: Ramachandran The lore is that Lawrence of Arabia was in Kerala for ayurvedic treatment just months ...

Swaralaya, in association with the Mahakavi Moyinkutty Vaidyar Mappila Kala Academy, Kondotty, organised a seminar on ‘Mapila ...

“For your father, Adam, was created with dirt from the surface of the earth. You also will be returned to the earth” The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, ...

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 ...