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Lalithambika Antharjanam (30 March 1909 – 6 February 1987) was an Indian author and social reformer best known for her literary works in the Malayalam language. She was influenced by the Indian independence movement and social reform movements among the Nambuthiri community and her writing reflects a sensitivity to the women's role in society, in the family and as an individual.
The pennezhuthu category is its most decisive and controversial form, changing the historiography of women's writing in India and the images of certain writers and writing trends. Malayalam literature's most significant female authors are K. Saraswathi Amma , Rajalakshmi , Lalithambika Antharjanam and Madhavikutty (Kamala Das), best known for ...
"Poovan Pazham" (Malayalam: പൂവൻപഴം; English: Poovan Banana) is a short story written by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer and published in 1948 in the collection Viddikalude Swargam (Fool's Paradise). It is one of the most popular of Basheer's stories. [1] [2] [3] It was adapted into a telefilm of the same name by P. Balachandran.
Oru Sankeerthanam Pole (transl. Like a Psalm) is a 1993 Malayalam novel written by Indian novelist and writer Perumbadavam Sreedharan.Set in the city of Saint Petersburg, it deals with the life of the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky and his love affair with Anna Grigoryevna Snitkina who would later become his wife.
Malayalam is an agglutinative language, and words can be joined in many ways. These ways are called sandhi (literally 'junction'). There are basically two genres of Sandhi used in Malayalam – one group unique to Malayalam (based originally on Old Tamil phonological rules, and in essence common with Tamil), and the other one common with Sanskrit.
Born M. P. Scaria (Zacharia) on June 5, 1945, in Urulikunnam, near Kottayam, then in Travancore, [1] Zacharia was the youngest of the three children of a farmer named M. S. Paul of the Mundattuchundayil house and his wife, Thresiakutty Paul. His early education was at Sree Dayananda Primary School, a local school in Urulikunnam and later he ...
That practice dates to the Middle Ages. Back then, using forks to eat was not commonplace, so having the man of the manor slice the meat into bite-sized chunks for women and children to eat by ...
Ezhuthachan's other major contribution has been in mainstreaming (the current) Malayalam alphabet (derived chiefly from the Sanskrit Grantha, or the Arya Script) as the replacement for the old Vattezhuthu (the then-30-letter script of Malayalam). [5] [2] The Arya script permitted the free use of Sanskrit in Malayalam writing. [5]