Palooda and Paalum Pazhavum are just two of the many traditional drinks that are served for Iftar

Palooda and Paalum Pazhavum are just two of the many traditional drinks that are served for Iftar

Creamy Palooda | Photo Credit: Shakira Banu Shakira Banu cannot imagine an Iftar without homemade palooda. No cousin of falooda, palooda is a popular dish that is part of Iftar in Northern Kerala, especially Kannur. A home-cook, Shakira says her mother, who has her roots in Marthandam in Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu, learned to make […]

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Palooda and Paalum Pazhavum are just two of the many traditional drinks that are served for Iftar

Palooda and Paalum Pazhavum are just two of the many traditional drinks that are served for Iftar

Creamy Palooda | Photo Credit: Shakira Banu Shakira Banu cannot imagine an Iftar without homemade palooda. No cousin of falooda, palooda is a popular dish that is part of Iftar in Northern Kerala, especially Kannur. A home-cook, Shakira says her mother, who has her roots in Marthandam in Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu, learned to make […]

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Sajita Nairs The Grande Matriarch of Malabar maps social changes in Kerala through the life of her protagonist

Sajita Nairs The Grande Matriarch of Malabar maps social changes in Kerala through the life of her protagonist

Matriarchs and ancestral homes are never far away from creative spaces when writers from Kerala spin stories. This time it is army officer-turned-author Sajita Nair who has centred her latest novel, The Grande Matriarch of Malabar, on a matriarch and her complex relationship with her tharavadu (ancestral house). Of ancestral homes One of the first women to […]

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Excavations shed light on Farokhabad fort, Tipu Sultan’s Malabar capital

Excavations shed light on Farokhabad fort, Tipu Sultan’s Malabar capital

Situated on a hillock with the Arabian Sea on one side and the Chaliyar river on the other, this was the only fort in Kerala built entirely by Tipu Sultan Situated on a hillock with the Arabian Sea on one side and the Chaliyar river on the other, this was the only fort in Kerala […]

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