By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Palai, August 13, 2026: Author of 110 books in Malayalam, Biju Sebastian (pen name Vinayak Nirmal) says the reading habit still prevails and deeply impacts people, though many claim no one reads or buys books. “I get at least one call from a reader of my newContinue Reading
The Madras high court declined on Monday to interfere with the grant of classical status to languages other than Tamil by the central government. The court was disposing of petitions challenging the grant of classical status to Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Odiya and norms governing such conferment. The first benchContinue Reading
Malayalam is set to get its first big global push. In October, the University of Tubingen in Germany will be setting up a chair dedicated to the teaching of and research in Malayalam. It is being named after Hermann Gundert, a missionary scholar who lived and worked in Tellichery inContinue Reading
