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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: Hussan Master Kodiyathur remained an obscure figure in his lifetime although he had penned over 2000 Mappila songs. But the music reality shows have catapulted him to fame. His songs have ...

Aneesh Maloth, dressed in a white vest with sleeves and white checkered lungi, walks towards the temple to the accompaniment of beats on a chenda. He wears a skull cap, sports a faux black moustache ...

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 ...

“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, ...

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 ...