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 ...

Kerala, reeling under the onslaught of Covid-19 has been struck by another pandemic in the form of the bitter memories of Mappila Rebellion, the biggest communal pogrom witnessed in this part of the ...

We are introducing three seminal titles in Mappila history that Other Books, Calicut published at two different points of time. Tuhfat al Mujahiiddin written by Sheikh Zainuddin II was brought out in ...

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 ...

Swami Vivekananda had described Kerala as a lunatic asylum after watching the casteism and communalism prevailing in God’s Own Country. If the monk returns to Kerala today, he would be in for ...

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 ...

KOZHIKODE: Taliban is not just a terror outfit but a mindset and manifestations of similar attitude were not new to India, said RSS leader Ram Madhav. Inaugurating ...

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 ...