Kasaragod is a municipal town and administrative headquarters of Kasaragod district in the state of Kerala,India. Established in 1966,Kasaragod was the first municipal town in the district. It is the northernmost district of Kerala and is also known as Sapta Bhasha Sangama Bhumi.
Kanhangad is a major town,located in the Kasaragod District,state of Kerala,India.
Oyyarathu Chandu Menon was a Malayalam language novelist. He is the author of Indulekha,the first major novel in Malayalam published in 1889.
Kanayi Kunhiraman is an Indian sculptor,best known for his outsize sculptures such as Yakshi of Malampuzha Dam Gardens,Sagarakanyaka at Shankumugham Beach and Mukkola Perumal trinity in Kochi. Taught by K. C. S. Paniker,he is a former chairman of the Lalit Kala Academy,India's national academy of fine arts. The Government of Kerala awarded him the inaugural Raja Ravi Varma Award in 2005. He is also a recipient of the Thikkurissy Award and the inaugural MS Nanjunda Rao National Award of the Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath. In 2022,he was honoured with Kerala Sree Award,third highest civilian award given by the Government of Kerala.
Vengayil Kunhiraman Nayanar was a Malayali essayist and short story writer,and a prominent landlord of Malabar district.
Ajanur is a grama panchayat and also a village of the same name in Kasargode district,Kerala state,India. It is the fifth largest town in Kasaragod district.
Panayanthitta Kunhiraman Nair,also known as Mahakavi P,was an Indian writer of Malayalam literature. He was known for his romantic poems which detailed the natural beauty of his home state of Kerala in South India as well as the realities of his life and times. He received the inaugural Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Poetry in 1959. He was also a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award.
Kasaragod is one of the 14 districts in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Its northern border Thalappady is located just 9 km south to Ullal,which is the southernmost portion of the major port city Mangalore,on the southwestern Malabar coast of India.
Moorkoth Kumaran (1874–1941) was a social reformer,a teacher and a writer in Malayalam. He came from a Thiyya family of Telicherry. He was a disciple of Narayana Guru and wrote the first biography of Guru. He also published some of the earliest short stories and novels in Malayalam.
Unniyarcha is a legendary warrior and heroine from the 16th century,mentioned in the Vadakkan Pattukal,a set of historical ballads from northern Kerala,a state in southwestern India. She was a member of a Thiyyar Community family of Puthooram Veed in Kadathanad. Her father's name was Kannappa Chekavar. She is believed to have lived in the northern part of Kerala during the 16th century. She is a popular character in Kerala's folklore,and is remembered for her valour and skills in Kerala's native martial art,Kalaripayattu. According to legend,Unniyarcha was most known for her deadly skill with the whip-like Urumi,a unique type of sword that is native to Kerala. Like most traditional Kalaripayattu practitioners,she began training at the kalari at the age of seven.
C. V. Kunhiraman was an Indian social reformer,journalist and the founder of Kerala Kaumudi daily. A follower of Sree Narayana Guru,Kunhiraman was the author of a number of books covering the genres of novels,short story,poetry,biographies and essays. He was one of the leaders involved in the Vaikom Satyagraha of Reformation movement in Kerala which led to the Temple Entry Proclamation.
Kunhiraman Sukumaran,was the editor of Kerala Kaumudi Daily. He served as the President of Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana Yogam during 1953-54.
K.V. Kunhiraman was born on 13 February 1961 at Udma in Kasaragode District as the son of Shri K Appukkan and Smt. K V Chirutha. He studied until Pre-Degree and entered politics and became a political and social worker. He studied up to 10th standard in GHSS Uduma and Pre-Degree in Kasaragode Govt. College. He entered politics through Bala Sangam while he was a student. He was the joint secretary of Hosdurg Taluk Balam Sangam committee. He became the president and secretary of Uduma area S.F.I committee. Then he became the president of S.F.I Kasaragode District committee. During the period of 1980-87 he became the member of S.F.I Kerala state committee. He also became the president and secretary of DYFI Uduma block committee and district committee. Then he became the member of DYFI state executive committee. He was also the Secretary of BalaSangam Rakhshathikari Samithi.
K. Kunhiraman was an Indian politician from Kasaragod,Kerala. He was the MLA of Trikaripur constituency from 2006 to 2016. He was a Member,State Committee of Communist Party of India (Marxist). He held a diploma in Ayurvedic medicine and was an Ayurvedic doctor. Kunhiraman died in Kannur on 13 December 2023,at the age of 80.
Edayillam Chandrasekharan is an Indian politician from Kasaragod,and is the former Revenue Minister of Kerala in the Pinarayi Vijayan Ministry.
The Maniyani Nair is a nair sub-caste and Malayalam speaking Yadava community,native to Kerala state of South India. They are mainly distributed in Kozhikode,Palakkad,Kannur,Kasaragod and Wayanad districts. Their traditional occupation is tending cattle and cultivation.
Iyyamcode Sreedharan is a Malayalam language writer from Kerala,India. He is well known in various fields of literature such as travelogue writer,Aattakkatha writer,playwright,poet and biographer. He received several awards including Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Overall Contributions,Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for travelogue,Kerala Kalamandalam Mukundaraja Award and Kerala Kalamandalam Award for outstanding contribution in the field of literature.
Aikya Kerala Movement,the movement to establish a united Kerala was one of the political movements in present-day Kerala state of India. The term Aikya Kerala literally means 'United Kerala'. It has been a statewide peaceful movement for a united Kerala state for all Malayalam speaking people,which lasted for more than three decades. Following the movement,The Malayalam-speaking regions of the Travancore–Cochin merged with the Malabar District and the Kasaragod Taluk of South Canara district in Madras State to form the modern Kerala state on 1 November 1956,according to the States Reorganisation Act,1956 passed by the Government of India.
