Category: Malayalam Literature

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Vayalar Ramavarma – Poet and the most celebrated lyricist of Malayalam cinema

Vayalar Ramavarma (1928 – 1975) was a famous poet and lyricist belonging to Malayalam. He remained the most popular lyricist during the glorious era of Malayalam film music in the 1960s and 1970s and...

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Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri – Recipient of 55th Jnanpith Award in 2019

Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri, popularly called Akkitham is a Malayalam poet, writer, freedom fighter, social activist and social reformer. He is the recipient of India’s highest literary honour, the Jnanpith Award in 2019. He got...

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Gilu Joseph – Malayalam model known for her controversial ‘Breastfeeding’ photo shoot for a woman’s magazine

Gilu Joseph is a film lyrist, actress and model from Kerala. She is also a poet. She is an air hostess turned actress, associated with Malayalam cine field and modelling. In 2018 March she...

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Poonthanam Namboodiri and Malayalis’ own Jnanappana for which he is remembered most

Only a few poets from Malayalam have succeeded in influencing people through ‘Bhakti’ or devotion and Poonthanam is one among the prominent names. Needless to say, his philosophical work, Jnanappana dedicated to Guruvayurappan (Lord...

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Kaikulangara Rama Warrier – The man behind the first printed book of Ezhuthachan and other major early works in Malayalam

A great scholar and poet, Kaikulangara Rama Warrier who gave copyright of all his 16 great works for just 500 rupees to Parammel Iyyu Ittupp of Kunnamkulam (Thrissur), the businessman who printed his works...

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